John Waters, known for trash epics such as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Cry Baby, Hairspray and many more comes to Popejoy Hall. Waters’s rapid-fire one-man, spoken word “vaudeville” act celebrates the film career and joyously appalling taste of the man William Burroughs once called “The Pope of Trash.” He focuses his talk on his early negative artistic influences, his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, extremes of the art world, Catholicism, sexual deviancy and a love of reading.

An Ovation Series selection

Make it a John Waters weekend! 

In conjunction with John Waters'  appearance at Popejoy, the Guild Cinema will be showing Female Trouble and Hairspray!  You can catch the films Thursday-Saturday and then see John Waters in person on Sunday, March 11. 

Hairspray - the 1988 Original!

March 8th to March 10
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Thursday to Saturday 3:00, 7:00

Dir. John Waters - 1988 - 92m - Double featured with FEMALE TROUBLE.

The Turnblads' (Divine, Jerry Stiller) plus-size daughter (Ricki Lake) rocks a segregated TV dance show in 1960s Baltimore.  Funny as heck and a good message to boot, this is the original 1988 one that includes Sonny Bono and Debra Harry as parents of a rival young girl plus Ric Ocasek and Pia Zadora as pot-smoking beatniks.  

"Not only Waters's best movie, but a crossover gesture that expands his appeal without compromising his vision one iota" - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Female Trouble

March 8 to March 10
 

Thursday to Saturday 5:00, 9:00 

Dir. John Waters - 1974 - 98m - Double Featured with the original HAIRSPRAY

A riotously funny bad-taste epic from director John Waters, Baltimore's "Prince of Puke," this sick classic tells the depraved life story of obese criminal Dawn Davenport (Divine), from her bad-girl youth as a go-go dancer on Baltimore's infamous Block to her death in the electric chair.