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Criterion collection volume 929
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"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...
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It follows three young female rockers going Hollywood in hell-bent sixties style under the spell of a flamboyant producer, whose decadent bashes showcase Meyer's trademark libidinal exuberance. Transgressive and outrageous, this big-studio version of a debaucherous midnight movie is an addictively entertaining romp from one of the movies' great outsider artists.
5) Orgazmo
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Joe Young is a devout Mormon visiting Hollywood to convert the unenlightened. While spreading the word, Joe is offered $20,000 to play Captain Orgazmo in a porn director's film. Mindful of the financial burdens of his upcoming wedding, Joe reluctantly accepts the role, not certain of what he's in for.
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Pasolini's rendering of several of Chaucer's tales of romance, deception, murder, and lust, told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral during the Middle Ages. The middle film of Pasolini's thematic "Trilogy of Life," the other two films being Decameron and Arabian Nights.