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Divine Trash
''Divine Trash'' is a 1998 documentary film directed by Steve Yeager about the life and work of John Waters. Cast *Steve Yeager *John Waters *Robert Shaye *Mink Stole *Divine (archive footage) *David Lochary (archive footage) * Edith Massey (archive footage) *Herschell Gordon Lewis *Danny Mills *Mary Vivian Pearce *Vincent Peranio * Paul Swift * John Pierson *Hal Hartley *Steve Buscemi * Jim Jarmusch *Channing Wilroy * Mary Avara *David O. Russell *Paul Morrissey *Jonas Mekas *George Kuchar *Mike Kuchar *Ken Jacobs Ken Jacobs (born May 25, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American experimental filmmaker. His style often involves the use of found footage which he edits and manipulates. He has also directed films using his own footage. Ken Jacobs directed ... References External links * * 1998 films American documentary films American independent films Documentary films about film directors and producers Documentary films about LGBT film 1998 documentary films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Yeager (filmmaker)
Steve Yeager (born 1948) is an independent filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. He is best known for his film on the indie filmmaking of fellow director John Waters, titled ''Divine Trash'', which won the Filmmakers Trophy for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. Career overview Steve Yeager got his start as a resident director at the Corner Theatre ETC, an experimental theatre company in Baltimore, Maryland (a branch of Ellen Stewart's New York-based Cafe La Mama ETC), with such productions as ''Pigeons'' by Lee Dorsey and ''Marguerite'' by C. Richard Gillespie. Yeager also directed an original play entitled ''Chiaroscuro'' while working at Corner. It was during this period that Steve Yeager also had occasion to work with two emerging talents of the day: Howard Rollins, in a 1972 production of John Steinbeck's ''Of Mice and Men;'' and Kathleen Turner, who appeared in Yeager's highly regarded original adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's '' Dr. Jekyll & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channing Wilroy
Channing Wilroy (born November 8, 1940) is an American film actor who has appeared in seven films by John Waters. His first film role was the character Channing, the manservant in the film ''Pink Flamingos''. Because of his work with Waters, Wilroy is considered one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of regular cast and crew members. Prior to appearing in the films of John Waters, he was a regular on ''The Buddy Deane Show'' for three years. He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts and runs an inn. Filmography *''Pink Flamingos'' (1972) as Channing the Butler *''Female Trouble'' (1974) as Prosecuting Lawyer *''Desperate Living'' (1977) as Lieutenant Wilson *'' Pecker'' (1998) as Wiseguy neighbor *''Divine Trash'' (1998) (himself) *''Cecil B. DeMented'' (2000) as Shop steward *''In Bad Taste'' (2000) (TV) (himself) *''A Dirty Shame'' (2004) as Irate motorist *''All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame (2005) (Himself) Other *''The Buddy Deane Show'' (1957) (TV series) *''Cry-Baby ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Documentary Films
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Independent Films
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American Documentary Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Films
The year 1998 in film involved many significant films, including '' Shakespeare in Love'' (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), '' Saving Private Ryan'','' Armageddon'' (which was the top grossing film of the year in the United States), '' American History X'', '' The Truman Show'', ''Primary Colors'', '' ''Rushmore'''', ''Rush Hour'', '' There's Something About Mary'', '' The Big Lebowski'', and Terrence Malick's directorial return in '' The Thin Red Line''. DreamWorks SKG released its first two animated films: '' Antz'' and ''The Prince of Egypt''. The ''Pokémon'' theatrical film series started with '' Pokémon: The First Movie''. Warner Bros. Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary. The year saw two dueling science-fiction disaster films about asteroids, '' Armageddon'' and ''Deep Impact'', becoming box office success, with ''Armageddon'' becoming the more popular of the two. It was also the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide. Highest-grossing films The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs (born May 25, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American experimental filmmaker. His style often involves the use of found footage which he edits and manipulates. He has also directed films using his own footage. Ken Jacobs directed '' Blonde Cobra'' in 1963. This short film stars Jack Smith who directed his own ''Flaming Creatures'' the same year. In 1969 he directed ''Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son'' (1969, USA), in which he took the original 1905 short film and manipulated the footage to recontextualize it. This is considered an important first example of deconstruction in film. The film was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007. His '' Star Spangled to Death'' (2004, USA) is a nearly seven-hour film consisting largely of found footage. Jacobs began compiling the archival footage in the 1950s and the film took years to complete. Jacobs taught at the Cinema Department at Harpur College at Binghamton University from 1969 to 2002. His son Azazel Jacobs is al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Kuchar
Mike Kuchar (born August 31, 1942 in New York City) is an American underground filmmaker, actor, and artist. Kuchar is notable for his low-budget and camp films such as '' Sins of the Fleshapoids'' and ''The Craven Sluck''. Biography Raised in The Bronx, he made his first films as a teenager in the 1950s with his twin brother George Kuchar and participated in New York’s underground film scene in the 1960s and 1970s. He divided his time between New York City and his brother's San Francisco apartment until 2007, when he moved to San Francisco permanently; George died in 2011. During the 1980s and 1990s, Mike Kuchar created comics and illustrations for homoerotic publications including '' Meatmen'', ''Gay Heart Throbs'', ''First Hand'', and ''Manscape,'' and continued to draw commissions afterward. '' It Came From Kuchar'', a documentary film about George and Mike Kuchar by Jennifer Kroot, premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on 14 March 2009. In more recent years, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kuchar
George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011) was an American underground film director and video artist, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic. Early life and career Kuchar trained as a commercial artist at the School of Industrial Art, now known as the High School of Art and Design, a vocational school in New York City. He graduated in 1960 and drew weather maps for a local news show. During this period, he and his twin brother Mike Kuchar were making 8mm movies, which were showcased in the then-burgeoning underground film scene alongside films by Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and Stan Brakhage. Ken Jacobs brought attention of their work to Jonas Mekas, who championed their work in the Village Voice and elsewhere. After being laid off from a commercial art job in New York City, Kuchar was offered a teaching job in the film department of the San Francisco Art Institute, where he taught from 1971 until early 2011. In San Francisco, Kuchar became involved with underground comics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (; December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". Mekas' work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide. Mekas was active in New York City, where he co-founded Anthology Film Archives, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and the journal '' Film Culture''. He was also the first film critic for ''The Village Voice''. In the 1960s, Mekas launched anti-censorship campaigns in defense of the LGBTQ-themed films of Jean Genet and Jack Smith, garnering support from cultural figures including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag. Mekas mentored and supported many prominent American artists and filmmakers, including Ken Jacobs, Peter Bogdanovich, Chantal Akerman, Richard Foreman, John Waters, Barbara Rubin, Yoko Ono, and Martin Scorsese. He helped launch the writing careers of the critics Andrew Sarris, Amy Taubin, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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