John Waters

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Latest Articles

Maddin’s Winnipeg is the city that always sleeps
Fellini’s Rome, Godard’s Paris, John Waters’s Baltimore — none of these home towns has possessed (or been possessed by) its filmmaker the way Guy Maddin’s does and is in My Winnipeg .
By PETER KEOUGH | July 08, 2008

Freaks and frauds

The Boston Underground Film Festival celebrates both
Freaks you expect, but frauds and hucksters also populate the loosely defined subculture known as the underground.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 18, 2008

The cuteness surge

Why, in desperate times, we turn to lolcats, twee songs, and mute kittens
Cuteness, of course, is the collective cultural cure-all to our problems.
By SHARON STEEL | February 01, 2008

Holiday books

Coffee-table madness
Okay, we admit, we went a bit crazy this year.
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 03, 2007

Pierre et Gilles: Double je, 1976–2007 by Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard

Taschen | 460 pages | $49.99

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | December 03, 2007

King and Queens

Romance + Cigarettes , plus Salton Sea
In Romance & Cigarettes , which opens this Friday at the Kendall Square, Gandolfini has been dropped by writer/director John Turturro into drab, treeless, white-ethnic Queens.
By GERALD PEARY | November 28, 2007

Integration in Ogunquit

With a flashback to Laverne + Shirley
Big, buoyant teenager Tracy Turnblad (Alison Faircloth) is dedicated to some big, buoyant propositions.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | September 05, 2007

Dirty politics

Has the Right Wing hijacked raunch?
The last resort of the true patriot is a fart joke.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 27, 2007

Straight outta Kafka

The Bushies’ enthusiasm for torture is indefensible
We want to get into the shower and not emerge until November 2008.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | July 25, 2007

All but the wank

Is Deep Throat sexier than the 1934 Tarzan and His Mate?
The image of Marlon Brando demanding that Maria Schneider stick two fingers up his ass, now seems the reductio ad absurdum of improvised acting.
By JAMES PARKER | July 24, 2007

Recycled Waters

Third time around, Hairspray still flows fresh
John Waters’s Hairspray , which marked his descent into an undistinguished gentility, is not even 20 years old.
By CHRIS BRAIOTTA | July 18, 2007

Chaos, control

Melt-Banana, Neptune, and Doomriders, Middle East Downstairs, June 11, 2007
There’s really no point in reviewing a show like this.
By JON MEYER | June 13, 2007

The girls of summer

The season for blockbusters, sequels, and . . . great roles for women?
It’s summer, so no one’s surprised at the onslaught of sequels, adaptations, or even movies based on toys. But films with Oscar-caliber women’s roles?
By PETER KEOUGH | May 18, 2007

Curiously refreshing

Digging deep at the Boston Underground Film Festival
The pickings this year at the ninth Boston Underground Film Festival are relatively slim.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 21, 2007

Real women do burlesque

Putting the tease — and some other things — back in striptease
The catcalls get louder just before I peel off my top.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | February 17, 2007

Factory guy

Images of Andy on the big screen
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol,” Andy Warhol is quoted on the US Post Office stamp commemorating him in 2002, “just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.” Wasted again: Factory Girl isn’t the bio-pic Edie deserves. By Gary Susman
By PETER KEOUGH | February 07, 2007

A Date With John Waters

A Date with John Waters | New Line
Valentine’s Day, with its heart-shaped boxes of chocolates and colorful candy kisses, is right up filmmaker John Waters’s kitschy alley, not to mention a perfect candidate for the auteur’s obsession with incredibly strange music.
By MATT ASHARE | February 06, 2007

Natural born liar

“Shots and Beer” lives in persistent denial
If you ever wanted a definition of “congenital liar,” just look at Dick “Big Time” Cheney.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | January 31, 2007

Insects in my stomach

What it's like to watch your older brother give a reading

By IAN SANDS | November 21, 2006

Trouble in paradise

An emerging art group fights bureaucracy in the supposed renaissance city
While our capital city continues to promote itself as a prime booster and center for the arts, we continue to wonder about the strength of that commitment.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | November 21, 2006

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