Little White Lies

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Pink Flamingos • John Waters’ canonical index of bodily transgressions and hyper-kitsch pranks has been much imitated but never bettered. So happy 50th birthday to a masterpiece of wanton degredation that’s also a charming document of good friends just having fun.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN • The Pope of Trash on 50 years of Pink Flamingos and waking up each morning to try and be nuts in new and exciting ways.

JOHN WATERS: AN OEUVRE

THE DREAM-LANDERS: A WHO'S WHO

THE DIVINE RIGHT OF QUEENS • Why drag deity Divine remains a fascinating case study for modern conceptions of gender.

WHAT A SWIZZ! • Pink Flamingos is a monolithic artwork which stands alone in the annals of 20th century culture. That’s not to say that plenty of other filmmakers weren’t taking notes.

The Curious Cinema of Alice in Wonderland • Introducing a new UK film and event season on the theme of curiosity — powered by Film Feels.

A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT OF SICKO AUTEURS

MEET THE AUTHOR

THE LITTLE BLOCKBUSTERS THAT COULD A SPECIAL DOSSIER • Five stories about the alternative face of movie blockbusters from around the globe. From subversive sleeper hits in the Philippines to sixties smut to Greek weddings that are both big and fat, these are all tales about films made with modest intentions that nevertheless connected with an audience far wider than expected.

1. HELLO BEAUTIFUL • Is Brian de Palma’s Mission to Mars the greatest blockbust inspired by a theme park ride?

2. A WEDDING GIFT • On the audience-gratifying power of rom-com box office titan, My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

3. ROCKY ROADS • On the Indonesian mockbuster maven who’s doll-based rip-offs are superior to the originals.

4. SUBVERSIVE SWEETHEARTS • Dissecting the Philippine rom-com mega-hit that craftily broke the genre mould.

5. THE KINK FACTOR • How erotic author Jacqueline Susann conquoured the box office in the 1970s.

#22 Threads Blue Eye Shadow • A column about clothes and movies

Raising the Dead • The Afterlight is an archive montage film by Charlie Shackleton which asks the viewer to consider context, representation and impermenance.

Mia Hansen-Love • The Bergman Island writer/director taps into the joys of solitude when it comes to unlocking inner creativity.

Bergman Island

The Princess

Blind Ambition

Pleasure

Ninja Thyberg • The director of porn world chronicle, Pleasure, tells of her switch from anti-porn zealot to embracer of a more progressive form of screen eroticism.

Moon, 66 Questions

Everything Went Fine

Eiffel

Il Buco

Faya Dayi

Futura

A Chiara

Brian and Charles

Swan Song

Udo Kier • The legendary German bit player on planting palm trees, Liberace’s rings, and his (lead!) role as an ageing hair stylist in Todd Stephens’s Swan Song.

Theo and the Metamorphosis

Nitram

Earwig

Elvis

Baz Luhrmann • Australia’s self-styled “tragic romantic” on how he brought the life of Elvis Aaron Presley to the screen in the biggest way possible.

Hit the Road

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Daryl McCormack • The Irish actor chats screen representations of sex workers, sex positivity and his breakout role in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.

Faithless

love jones

Man Marked For Death, Twenty Years Later

Luminous Procuress

Twentynine Palms

Putney Swope

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