John Waters has made 16 films over the course of his nearly 50-year career, one of which has remained elusive to audiences: 1970’s legendarily depraved “Multiple Maniacs.” Janus Films recently ...

“It’s even weirder now than it ever was,” John Waters says, reflecting on his newly restored, resplendently profane Multiple Maniacs. “When I was watching it again recently, I was thinking, ‘No wonder ...

In his long and storied career, writer-director John Waters, the Baltimore bard of trash and sleaze and twisted kicks, has staged all kinds of scenes, from delinquent comedy to hardcore gross-outs to ...

John Waters might have been outraged if anyone had told him in 1970 that “Multiple Maniacs,” the Baltimore underground filmmaker’s deliberately offensive (and often hilarious) second feature, was a ...

There aren’t many films that cost $5,000 to make that undergo a 4K restoration, but John Waters’ “Multiple Maniacs” is no ordinary shoestring indie. And Waters is thrilled it will be playing at the ...

First off, let’s do the standard warning that just because you liked the Hairspray remake (and/or musical), it doesn’t mean that every John Waters film is going to be up your alley. Particularly his ...

There’s something faintly perverse about the idea of John Waters’ early work being painstakingly restored, especially by the highbrow gatekeepers at Janus Films/Criterion. Audiences originally saw ...

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Multiple Maniacs may be the Sibyl of filmmaking, a cultural and artistic split personality (OK, dissociative personality disorder). The restored early John Waters film (thanks Criterion!), opens today ...

John Waters is one of the few filmmakers that nearly everyone – inside and outside of the film industry, might recognize. Between the carefully tailored striped suits and pencil-thin, Little ...

Trash! The Wildest Films You've Ever Seen is the suitably trashy title of a season coming imminently to the BFI Southbank, one which is set to bring some much needed sex, drugs, violence, drag, ...