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.

POLYESTER - Presented in Odorama!

For his typically subversive take on the Hollywood melodrama, Waters shifted his focus from Baltimore's urban crannies to its middle-class suburbs. Divine—in his penultimate performance for Waters—plays a sharp-nosed suburban housewife caught between the demands of her philandering porn-hawking husband, her go-go dancer daughter, and her glue-sniffing son, a foot-fetishist wanted for mangling the toes of a series of women. Her only solace is in the company of her old friend Cuddles (Edith Massey) and in her new covert romance with the dashing art-house movie theater owner Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter, a Hollywood star whose old-fashioned good looks make him hilariously—and pointedly—out of place among Waters’s Dreamlanders).

Presented in Odorama, a system Waters devised in which theatergoers were handed scratch-and-sniff cards to use during the film. Scratch-and-sniff Odorama card included with your ticket!

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