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John Waters
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo.
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"[Just] like reading a description of a Waters film is nothing like seeing it on the screen, listening to him tell his own stories brings the context and inflection needed to truly appreciate his art. A singular experience." — Booklist
This program is read by the author and includes a bonus conversation.
No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A filthy, uproarious, outrageous novel from the brilliant and twisted mind of John Waters"--
Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She's smart, she's desperate, she's disturbed, and she's on the run with a big chip on her shoulder. They call her "Liarmouth"--until one insane man makes her tell the truth - book jacket.
4) Carsick
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"John Waters hitchhikes across America"--Dust jacket cover.
"John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads 'I'm not psycho,' he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about: the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?"--Dust...
Author
Publisher
HARPER, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Combines engaging facts with colorful mixed-media artwork in an introduction to the world of sharks that challenges popular misconceptions, reveals the shark's powerful sixth sense and describes ongoing conservation efforts. --Publisher's description.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Decades before the existence of the MPAA and an implemented rating system, the United States had censors. At least seven states and dozens of cities across the country empowered government-employed censors to injudiciously cut films prior to their exhibition or even outright ban them. SICKIES MAKING FILMS uses the nation's longest surviving censor board as a window into the tangled history of American movie censorship.The film explores the question...
8) Hairspray
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Nostalgic satire about the integration of a TV teen dance program in 1962 Baltimore.
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
English
Description
From ancient, misty forests to canyons that conceal secrets from the age of dinosaurs, from pristine lakes to majestic peaks, and from sophisticated cities to some of the world's greatest wilderness areas, experience all of Australia's dramatic contrasts, dazzling wildlife, and glorious landscapes few visitors are privileged to see.
10) Breaker Morant
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
A look at the events in the Boer War leading up to and including the court-martial of three Australian officers for murdering a prisoner. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” and sci-fi gems such as “Blade Runner,” and “A Clockwork Orange.”
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” to “The Big Lebowski” and everything inbetween, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The final volume of Time Warp digs deep into what makes us laugh over and over again as we reveal the greatest cult comedies and campy classics of all time. From “Fast Time at Ridgemont High” and “Office Space” to “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” and “Showgirls.”
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Nim is the precocious daughter of scientist father Jack. Nim, a bit older now, still has a gift to be "one with nature" and her amazing animal friends. But now that developers and poachers threaten her island, she and her dad must fight to preserve their pristine home and its abundant wildlife.
15) Aggie
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the nexus of art, race and justice through the story of art collector Agnes Gund who sold Roy Lichtenstein's painting "Masterpiece" in 2017 for {dollar}165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration.
17) Lynch/Oz
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch's filmography from his early short The Alphabet to his recent television series Twin Peaks: The Return. Arguably, no filmmaker has so consistently drawn inspiration consciously or unconsciously from a single work. Is Lynch trapped in the Land of Oz? If so, what can we learn about his body of work by closely examining how it intersects and...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A trippy, cinematic sleighride into the strange & sublime universe of alternative & underground Xmas music, featuring The Flaming Lips, Run-DMC, The Free Design, Low, Miles Davis & Bob Dorough, Clarence Carter, John Waters, and many more. Official Selection at the **San Francisco Documentary Film Festival** and **DOC NYC**.
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Long before YouTube, there were the brilliantly insane, no-budget movies of underground filmmaking twins George and Mike Kuchar. Creating stars out of their friends and family with just consumer-grade cameras, the teenage Kuchar brothers went from the 1960s New York City underground film scene of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger to become the twin maestros of B-movie glamour and sleaze.
20) Cry-Baby
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A spoof and homage to 1950's teen rock melodramas. Cry-Baby is a rebel with a gang of rough friends. Allison is the straight-laced girl who falls for him.
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