If you still haven’t visited London’s newest independent cinema right in the heart of Covent Garden…..shame on you…its clear to see the love that have been poured to create this cinepile’s dream. Now here’s the perfect reason to finally try it out.  Currently, THE GARDEN CINEMA has its own mini-fest, Divine Trash: The Films of John Waters, with a filmography spanning from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. The films of John Waters are unapologetically queer, subversive, and outrageous.  The season will start its Cavalcade of Perversion with the punky, low-budget Multiple Maniacs, before journeying into the feral and legendary ‘Trash Trilogy’ – Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living – and finish with the provocative polish and big-screen satire of Polyester, Serial Mom, and Cecil B. Demented.

A patron saint of the profane, Waters has made a career out of transforming bad taste into high art, casting outsiders and deviants as icons, and lovingly ridiculing the nuclear family, bourgeois ideals, and the conservative American dream. In this season, we trace his evolution from underground provocateur to outsider auteur, with each film a rallying cry for weirdos everywhere.

The season launch kicked off with a video message from John Waters himself, followed by a live performance by the incredible artist biogal, conjuring Dreamland filth and frenzy on stage, prior to a screening of Multiple Maniacs.  To end the season, the screening of Polyester will be presented in glorious Odorama, with scratch’n’sniff cards for all attendees. Reminiscent of its original 1981 release, you’ll be invited to follow along with the film and smell every delightfully disgusting scent: from roses to flatulence. Hold your nose and praise the Pope of Trash.  You can check out the full program HERE  and includes a special Odorama Screening of Polyester.

PS Queerguru’s summer base is Provincetown, Mass where Mr Waters is one of our most famous residents, and we have been able to interview him a few times at the Towns Film Fest : here’s one from 2017