John Waters: Polyester | book debut + film screening
colour, subtitled, American film, 86', 198
Schedule
Smarty-pants, or the wisdom of a dirty old man...
The event will start at 20:00 with a book launch talk, followed by a short break and a screening of the cult film Polyester at around 21:00.
20:00 - John Waters has been a New York Times bestselling author for decades - but his latest collection of writings is not just about navigating the tortures of respectability, but about every possible rebellion beyond the twilight of life. No one knows more about everything - especially everything that's sublime, witty and stunningly offensive - than John Waters. The man behind the pencil-drawn moustache, the director of such transgressive film classics as Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-Baby and Shame and Disgrace, one of the world's classics of subtly blatant brain-teasers, The Smart Egg himself finally tells it like it is: How to make it big in Hollywood?
John Waters' autobiographical book is written by translator Simon Márton and Nemes Z. Márió Nemi Waters, Mirtill Ramóna Tóth, editor of Kalligram Publishing.
The book will be available for purchase at the event with a 20% discount.
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21:00 - POLYESTER
(Polyester - in English with Hungarian subtitles)
colour, subtitled, American film, 86', 1981
directed by John Waters
starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey
Francine Fishpaw is a middle-class suburban wife whose husband runs a porno theatre. The neighbourhood hates them, saying they corrupt their children, so Francine consoles herself with food and alcohol. But overnight, her already disastrous life falls apart: her husband moves in with a young woman, her daughter announces she's pregnant, and her son is arrested as the neighbourhood's dreaded foot fetish satyr...
(Interestingly, Policeman, a critique of American society, went down in film history as a 'smelly film', as before the screenings, numbered scent cards were handed out to the audience, and during the screening, numbers flashed in one corner of the screen to indicate the number of cards to hold under the nose to not only see and hear, but also smell the scene. This stunt is now omitted in the Bem Cinema.)
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Bem Cinema
In January 2016, the 108-year-old Bem Cinema will reopen its doors to the public, in a new way never seen before in Hungary: as a cinema of cult and classic films (no harm!), or as the educated French say (if you know your English): as a "repertory cinema".
