George Figgs

George Figgs

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Forbidden Frames
Title: Forbidden Frames
Character: Alvin
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: Movie
A dystopian satire about censorship and film preservation.
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Cinevangelist: A Life in Revival Film
Title: Cinevangelist: A Life in Revival Film
Character: Himself
Released: May 7, 2018
Type: Movie
In CINEVANGELIST: A LIFE IN REVIVAL FILM, film historian and artist George Figgs tells the story of his life's work in bringing revival cinema to Baltimore and beyond. From his role in Baltimore's underground film scene of the 1960s and his involvement with the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge during the early '70s, to helping manage Baltimore's celebrated Charles Theatre in the '80s, owning and operating the Orpheum Cinema during the '90s, and continuing with the "third wave" of revival cinema today, Figgs has made it his mission to bring alternative films to the audiences who want to see them, in the way they were meant to be seen.
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A Dirty Shame
Title: A Dirty Shame
Character: Neuter (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
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Polyester
Title: Polyester
Character: Abortion Picketer
Released: May 29, 1981
Type: Movie
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.
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Desperate Living
Title: Desperate Living
Character: Herbert
Released: May 27, 1977
Type: Movie
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda, wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
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Female Trouble
Title: Female Trouble
Character: Dribbles
Released: October 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Dawn Davenport progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair.
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Pink Flamingos
Title: Pink Flamingos
Character: Bongo Player
Released: March 17, 1972
Type: Movie
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
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Multiple Maniacs
Title: Multiple Maniacs
Character: Jesus Christ
Released: April 10, 1970
Type: Movie
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
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Mondo Trasho
Title: Mondo Trasho
Character: Asylum Inmate / Man in Waiting Room
Released: March 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).
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Eat Your Makeup
Title: Eat Your Makeup
Character: Prince Charming
Released: February 23, 1968
Type: Movie
John Waters' first sixteen-millimetre film, about a deranged nanny who kidnaps young girls and forces them to 'model themselves to death' in front of her boyfriend and their crazed friends. It was never shown commercially.
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Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head
Title: Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head
Character: Grassman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An incomplete project, Dorothy the Kansas City Pothead stars John Waters' long-time casting agent Pat Moran in the role of Dorothy.