Part of DEEP WATERS -- a twisted series of early work by John Waters, one of cinema's greatest and boldest button-pushing moviemakers. Waters is the 2016 recipient of FilmScene's annual Cinema Savant honors. See the films before his live show at the Englert on October 1, where he will also receive the Cinema Savant award.

MULTIPLE MANIACS - New Restoration!

John Waters' gloriously grotesque, unavailable-for-decades second feature comes to theaters at long last, replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments.

Made on a shoestring budget in Baltimore, with Waters taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show put on by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities are topped only by those of their leader: the glammer-than-glam, larger-than-life Divine, who’s out for blood after discovering her lover’s affair. Starring Waters' beloved regular cast the Dreamlanders (including David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, and Cookie Mueller), Multiple Maniacs is an anarchist masterwork from an artist who has doggedly tested the limits of taste for decades.

"The pope of trash." -William S. Burroughs

"Can only be compared to Todd Browning's Freaks." -Los Angeles Free Press

"...cheapo, indie, queer American cinema at its most adversarial and thrillingly vicious." -Globe and Mail