#1131: WATERS, John: Pink Flamingos (1972)
WATERS, John (United States)
Pink Flamingos [1972]
Director/Writer
Pink Flamingos [1972]
Spine #1131
Blu-ray
John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.” When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word filthy. Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history’s most legendary gross-out ending—Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.
92 minutes
Color
Color
Monaural
1:66:1 aspect ratio
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2022
John Waters was 26 when he wrote and directed Pink Flamingos.
Other Waters films in the Collection:
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Eight-page newsprint featuring an essay by critic Howard Hampton and a piece by actor and author Cookie Mueller about the making of the film, from her 1990 book Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black.
Commentary
A feature-length 1998 documentary by Steve Yeager about Waters and the making of Pink Flamingos, featuring interviews with cast and crew.
Conversation
Between Waters and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch.
Tour
Of the film’s Baltimore locations, led by Waters.
Deleted scenes and alternate takes
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
Eight-page newsprint featuring an essay by critic Howard Hampton and a piece by actor and author Cookie Mueller about the making of the film, from her 1990 book Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black.
Commentary
- Featuring Waters, from the 1997 Criterion laserdisc;
- And the 2001 DVD release.
A feature-length 1998 documentary by Steve Yeager about Waters and the making of Pink Flamingos, featuring interviews with cast and crew.
Conversation
Between Waters and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch.
Tour
Of the film’s Baltimore locations, led by Waters.
Deleted scenes and alternate takes
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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