Female Trouble

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Call Number: DVD Comedy Female
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD Comedy Female	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 1-week checkout	DVD Comedy Female	1-week checkout	Due 05-03-2024

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director John Waters; Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Waters; New conversation between Waters and critic Dennis Lim; New and archival interviews with cast and crew members Mink Stole, Pat Moran, Vincent Peranio, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, Hilary Taylor, and Van Smith; Interview from 1975 featuring Waters and cast members Divine, Stole, and David Lochary; Deleted scenes and alternate takes; Exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary footage by Steve Yeager; An essay by critic Ed Halter.
Disc one: Female trouble (with optional audio commentary by director John Waters) -- Crime and beauty : remembering female trouble (interviews from outtakes of Jeffrey Schwarz's 2013 documentary I am Divine)
Disc two: John Waters and Dennis Lim (conversation between the director and the film critic; 2018) -- Trims and cut scenes -- Dreamlanders. Little Taffy (John Waters interview of Little Taffy; 2018) ; Moran, Pearce, and Smith (filmmaker Steve Yeager's interviews with production manager Pat Mora, actor Mary Vivian Pearce, and costume designer/makeup artist Van Smith; 1974) ; Van Smith (Steve Yeager interview with Van Smith; 1974) -- On-set footage -- Lady Divine (R. Couri Hay's interview with John Waters and some of his regular collaborators, presented by Anton Perich; 1975)
Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller, Susan Walsh, Michael Potter, Ed Peranio, Paul Swift, George Figgs, Susan Lowe.
"Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters' larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film's lurid mantra, 'Crime is beauty,' who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impuses land her in the electric chair. Shot in Waters' native Baltimore on 16 mm, with a cast drawn from his beloved troupe of regulars, the Dreamlanders (including Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, and Cookie Mueller), this film--the director's favorite of his work with Divine--comes to life through the tinsel-toned vision of production designer Vincent Peranio and costume designer/makeup artist Van Smith. An endlessly quotable fan favorite, Female Trouble offers up perverse pleasures that never fail to satisfy"--Container.
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.66.1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 1.0.

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Female Trouble submitted by lstorc on July 23, 2019, 11:48pm Female Trouble is too over the top for me, but I can see how a lot of people will like it.