ABSTRACT:

‘Jonas Mekas saved my life,” says John Waters of the 76-year-old godfather of underground cinema, who heads the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village.

“As a suburban kid in Baltimore, I read his (Village Voice) column every week. Then I’d run away to New York to see the film he wrote about.”

Now Waters is, in a way, paying his debt to Mekas by curating for the Anthology four of what he calls his favorite underrated films.

“They’re movies I really like, but when you bring them up people give you a blank stare,” Waters explains.

And the movies are… “Savage Nights”, “Therese”, “The Rapture”, “The Boy Who Cried Bitch”, “Cabaret Balkan”, “Crime and Punishment”, “Metropolis”, and “The Mummy.”