John Waters looks positive giddy as he perches on the edge of his chair at the Provincetown Film Festival, chuckling as he recalls the bad reviews Variety gave him back in the day.
I recall one from the 1974 write-up for “Female Trouble” — “‘Camp’ is too elegant a word to describe it all” — and he rolls his eyes at the word “camp.” “No one says that word anymore,” he laughs. “To me, ‘camp’ is like two older gay gentlemen talking about Tiffany lampshades in an antique shop. We were never that. We used ‘trash’ or ‘filth,’ which was more punk, to describe our style.”
Trade reviews offered a strange sort of validation for the budding “smut-eur,” who would take the put-downs and twist them to his advantage back in the early ’70s, turning bad blurbs into good publicity for his gonzo stunts. When Fine Line rereleased Waters’ most notorious film, 1972’s “Pink Flamingos,...
I recall one from the 1974 write-up for “Female Trouble” — “‘Camp’ is too elegant a word to describe it all” — and he rolls his eyes at the word “camp.” “No one says that word anymore,” he laughs. “To me, ‘camp’ is like two older gay gentlemen talking about Tiffany lampshades in an antique shop. We were never that. We used ‘trash’ or ‘filth,’ which was more punk, to describe our style.”
Trade reviews offered a strange sort of validation for the budding “smut-eur,” who would take the put-downs and twist them to his advantage back in the early ’70s, turning bad blurbs into good publicity for his gonzo stunts. When Fine Line rereleased Waters’ most notorious film, 1972’s “Pink Flamingos,...
- 9/14/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from legendary Argentine movie star Isabel Sarli, the subject of a new documentary having its U.S. premiere this weekend in New York.
It's not every day you see a retrospective honoring Isabel "Coca" Sarli, the Argentine siren whose work with director (and eventual husband) Armando Bo resulted in one of the most prolific, searing and sensational partnerships of the 1960s and '70s. In fact, it's not really ever that you see such an event in the U.S. -- at least not until now.
It's not every day you see a retrospective honoring Isabel "Coca" Sarli, the Argentine siren whose work with director (and eventual husband) Armando Bo resulted in one of the most prolific, searing and sensational partnerships of the 1960s and '70s. In fact, it's not really ever that you see such an event in the U.S. -- at least not until now.
- 8/5/2010
- Movieline
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