Irreverent heartfelt shocking and laughoutloud funnya colorful celebration of the work of subversive auteur John WatersKnown for pushing the boundaries of good taste John Waters born 1946 has created a canon of highshockvalue highentertainment movies that have cemented his position as one of the most revered and subversive auteurs in American independent cinema. Featuring misfit muses tributes to his hometown of Baltimore and themes of fetish obsession and celebrity culture his renegade filmsincluding Pink Flamingos 1972 Female Trouble 1974 Desperate Living 1977 Hairspray 1988 Serial Mom 1994 and A Dirty Shame 2004are irreverent laughoutloud comedies that lovingly draw inspiration from William Castle Herschell Gordon Lewis Russ Meyer Andy Warhol and Pier Paolo Pasolini alike. John Waters Pope of Trash accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures the first dedicated solely to Waters films.