Rec: This Filthy World

For you film people out there, or just those who love the brilliant and funny, there's a DVD of Jon Waters giving a "lecture" coming out on Tuesday.
It's called, "This Filthy World" and it's a recording of Waters giving the kind of talk he's apparently often asked to do at colleges...and prisons...and film festivals.

I love John Waters. Not all his movies understand, just the man himself. ("Desperate Living" made me want to cut the screen with a big, big knife and scream a lot about editing, but he acknowledges he was learning as he went back then, and had barely heard of editing so...) He refuses to call this a lecture, and instead calls it vaudeville, and calls himself a carnie. And just yeah...

Topics range from his movies, his actors (Divine, yay!) to bad influences, saying inappropriate things to children, censorship, poppers, gay marriage, and people who hate books ("Don't fuck 'em."). Also, there's random bits like when he became an ordained minister to marry Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder but then talked Johnny out of it. (???? Inorite?) It's hilarious. When he starts talking about Limits, and how some people need them, I was giggling to myself. I mean, when John Waters thinks you've maybe gone too far...

Overall, completely enjoyable in a slightly evil sort of way.