Divine Trash

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Divine Trash
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Directed by Steve Yeager
Produced bySteve Yeager; Cindy Miller
StarringSteve Yeager
John Waters
The Dreamlanders
Steve Buscemi
CinematographySteve Yeager
Edited bySteve Yeager
Music byDon Barto
Distributed byFox Lorber
Release date
  • January 18, 1998 (1998-01-18)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10,000
Box office$39,842

Divine Trash is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Steve Yeager about the life and work of filmmaker John Waters, and the making of the 1972 film Pink Flamingos , which is written and directed by Waters and stars Divine. [1] [2]

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Divine Trash premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, where it won Yeager the Filmmakers Trophy for Best Documentary. [3]

Cast

Release

Divine Trash had its premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where it won Yeager the Filmmakers Trophy for Best Documentary. [3] Following its Sundance premiere, Yeager re-cut the film in order to excise roughly eight minutes of footage from films and television programs for which he had not secured the usage rights; after being re-edited, Divine Trash screened at the Senator Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 5, 1998. [4]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 80% based on five reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. [5]

References

  1. Ollove 1998a, p.  4E.
  2. Holden, Stephen (March 31, 2000). "Divine Trash (1998) Film Review; How a Fan of the Wicked Witch Became a Succes de Scandale". The New York Times . Retrieved July 6, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Ollove 1998a, p.  1E.
  4. Ollove, Michael (December 27, 1998). "Steve Yeager, talking 'Trash'". The Baltimore Sun . Baltimore, Maryland. p. 5F. Retrieved July 6, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Divine Trash". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media . Retrieved July 6, 2023.

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