** The Criterion Collection and Little White Lies Present a Special Screening of PINK FLAMINGOS **
Celebrate the UK Criterion release of John Waters’ forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos with a special 50th anniversary screening of the uncut film at Picturehouse Central.
See the film in all its glory before its official Criterion Collection Blu-ray release, which will include a very special introduction from the man himself – John Waters – recorded exclusively for the screening.
And that’s not all – everyone attending will receive a Pink Flamingos’ “barf bag”, just like audiences got back in 1972, and the chance to buy the Criterion Blu-ray edition of the film exclusively before its release!
What’s more, bi-monthly film magazine Little White Lies have dedicated this month’s issue to all things Pink Flamingos and copies will be available to buy on the night. We’re inviting everyone to dress up (as Divine!) and sashay down to join in all the fun.
Pink Flamingos stars outré diva and Waters’ favourite Divine, who is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while revelling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.”
When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary), with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them, attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word filthy.
Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history’s most legendary gross-out ending, John Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.
John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent in this most infamous and daring cinematic transgression, coming to Blu-ray uncut for the first time in the UK thanks to The Criterion Collection.
https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00011905/criterion-presents-pink-flamingos-uncut
Pink Flamingos is released on Criterion Collection Blu-ray on Monday 25th July 2022.
