Re: TCM Premieres....
Posted: June 30th, 2023, 2:29 am
"Here are the TCM premieres for June, as determined by MovieCollectorOH’s TCM schedules database....."
Jun 30 - Pink Flamingos (1974)
"....a 1972 American black comedy film[a] directed, written, produced, narrated, filmed, and edited by John Waters.[4] It is part of what Waters has labelled the "Trash Trilogy", which also includes Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977).[4]
The film stars the countercultural drag queen Divine as a criminal living under the name of Babs Johnson, who is proud to be "the filthiest person alive". While living in a trailer with her mother Edie (Edith Massey), son Crackers (Danny Mills), and companion Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce), Divine is confronted by the Marbles (David Lochary and Mink Stole), a pair of criminals envious of her reputation who try to outdo her in filth. .....
Displaying the tagline "An exercise in poor taste", Pink Flamingos is notorious for its "outrageousness", nudity, profanity, and "pursuit of frivolity, scatology, sensationology [sic] and skewed epistemology".[5] It features a "number of increasingly revolting scenes".....
The film, at first semi-clandestine, has received a warm reception from film critics and, despite being banned in several countries, became a cult film in subsequent decades. In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[8]......
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Flamingos
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this doesn't show up on TCM's June schedule, so assume it airs sometime AFTER 6/30 @10:30pm ET
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Jun 30 - Pink Flamingos (1974)
"....a 1972 American black comedy film[a] directed, written, produced, narrated, filmed, and edited by John Waters.[4] It is part of what Waters has labelled the "Trash Trilogy", which also includes Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977).[4]
The film stars the countercultural drag queen Divine as a criminal living under the name of Babs Johnson, who is proud to be "the filthiest person alive". While living in a trailer with her mother Edie (Edith Massey), son Crackers (Danny Mills), and companion Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce), Divine is confronted by the Marbles (David Lochary and Mink Stole), a pair of criminals envious of her reputation who try to outdo her in filth. .....
Displaying the tagline "An exercise in poor taste", Pink Flamingos is notorious for its "outrageousness", nudity, profanity, and "pursuit of frivolity, scatology, sensationology [sic] and skewed epistemology".[5] It features a "number of increasingly revolting scenes".....
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The film, at first semi-clandestine, has received a warm reception from film critics and, despite being banned in several countries, became a cult film in subsequent decades. In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[8]......
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Flamingos
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this doesn't show up on TCM's June schedule, so assume it airs sometime AFTER 6/30 @10:30pm ET
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