Trinity of Trash
Kirsten Dunst in Drop Dead Gorgeous

Trinity of Trash

Season

Please note : this season finished in July 2024

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”, as the old idiom goes. In a year spotted with nostalgia for subversion, queer homages to exploitation cinema, and a potential renaissance for gross-out comedy, this Trinity of Trash is among suitably depraved company.

In this mini season, we cast our attention back across the decades to reevaluate a few of independent cinema’s hidden gems, exhumed through the context of John Waters’ Female Trouble – celebrating its fiftieth anniversary and returning to the big screen as part of Cinema Rediscovered 2024.

Completing the trinity, we welcome two delightfully dark comedies in the form of Paul Bartel’s Eating Raoul and the mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous, starring Kirsten Dunst.

Often crude, hedonistic and skewering of the cultural zeitgeist, these three films challenge our perceptions of good and bad taste; what is acceptable and what is not; and how “cult” cinema has inadvertently become the vital lifeblood of the industry.

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Previous screenings in this season

Eating Raoul

classified 18 Trinity of Trash
Eating Raoul
Please note: This was screened in July 2024
Film

The typical, middle-class, American Dream… by any means necessary. Paul Bartel’s richly dark comedy tears apart the ambitions of the Yuppie set.

Drop Dead Gorgeous

classified 15 Trinity of Trash
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Please note: This was screened in July 2024
Film

The bizarre phenomenon of small-town beauty pageants explodes on to the big screen in Michael Patrick Jann’s late ‘90s mockumentary.

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