{"id":333,"date":"2006-04-02T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2018-01-25T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:57:37","slug":"kuchar-brothers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2006\/04\/02\/kuchar-brothers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuchar Brothers: Programme Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IN LUST WE TRUST: 8MM FILMS BY THE KUCHAR BROTHERS<\/b>
\nSunday 2 April 2006, at 4:15pm
\nLondon Lesbian & Gay Film Festival at BFI Southbank<\/strong>
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KUCHAR BROTHERS: PROGRAMME TWO<\/strong><\/p>\n

George Kuchar, A Woman Distressed, USA, 1962, 12 min<\/strong>
\nHer destiny is to be condemned to an insane asylum, where the staff are as crazy as the inmates.<\/p>\n

Mike Kuchar, Night Of The Bomb, USA, 1962, 18 min<\/strong>
\nOnly the chaos of an atomic blast can interrupt the erotic mission of these Cold War kids.<\/p>\n

Mike Kuchar, The Confessions Of Babette, USA, 1963, 15 min<\/strong>
\nHow much depravity can one woman crave?<\/p>\n

George Kuchar, Anita Needs Me, USA, 1963, 16 min<\/strong>
\n\u2018All the horrors and guilt of the human mind exposed! Your emotions will be squeezed.\u2019 GK<\/em><\/p>\n

Mike & George Kuchar, I Was A Teenage Rumpot, USA, 1960, 10 min<\/strong>
\n\u2018A documentary about people like you and me, people with a zest for life.\u2019 GK<\/em><\/p>\n

Mike & George Kuchar, The Slasher, USA, 1958, 21 min<\/strong>
\nAn insane killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness.<\/p>\nPROGRAMME NOTES<\/a>

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IN LUST WE TRUST: 8MM FILMS BY THE KUCHAR BROTHERS
\nPROGRAMME 2
\n<\/strong> Sunday 2 April 2006, at 4:15pm
\nLondon Lesbian & Gay Film Festival at BFI Southbank<\/p>\n

A WOMAN DISTRESSED<\/strong>
\n George Kuchar, USA, 1962, 8mm on 16mm, colour, sound, 12 min<\/strong>
\n\u2018The movie club put out a newsletter and one of my early 8mm films, A Woman Distressed<\/em>, was the only picture that they ever panned in the pages of their cinematic rag. The film was a brash, reckless, comic-drama about the drug Thalidomide and its deforming effect upon the offspring of a big-city maternity ward. Stories of the horrors caused by the drug were permeating the newspapers at the time and I used the reported material as a basis for the comic-drama (or dramedy as it is now called by prime-time practitioners of the TV medium). \u2019 (George Kuchar)<\/em><\/p>\n

NIGHT OF THE BOMB<\/strong>
\n Mike Kuchar, USA, 1962, 8mm on 16mm, colour, sound, <\/strong>18 min<\/strong>
\nTeenage lust and deranged delinquence combine to create a cautionary tale for the ages. The Chernobyl of Comedy!
\n\u2018The bomb in Night of the Bomb<\/em> was a vehicle to use as a spectacular image \u2013 people in conflict \u2013 otherwise it\u2019s hard to make a narrative if something drastic doesn\u2019t happen.\u2019 (Mike Kuchar)<\/em><\/p>\n

THE CONFESSIONS OF BABETTE<\/strong>
\n Mike Kuchar, USA, 1963, 8mm on 16mm, colour, sound, <\/strong>15 min<\/strong>
\nFollowing on the heels of Powell\u2019s Peeping Tom<\/em>, it almost matches that film classic in progressing truly disturbing psychological horror in contemporary cinema. (www.imdb.com)<\/em><\/p>\n

ANITA NEEDS ME<\/strong>
\n George Kuchar, USA, 1963, 8mm on 16mm, colour, sound, <\/strong>16 min<\/strong>
\n \u2018<\/strong>As one man learns of another man\u2019s troubled relationship, he understands how to handle his own troubles at home. The only film to have any dialogue, this tale of tragedy and the scars it leaves on the human psyche is wonderfully told through a voice-over monologue that dives into the deepest shades purple prose.\u2019 (Ryan Sarnowski)
\n<\/em>\u2018All the horrors and guilt of the human mind exposed! It reaches deep into the workings of a woman\u2019s cravings. Your emotions will be squeezed.\u2019 (George Kuchar)<\/em><\/p>\n

I WAS A TEENAGE RUMPOT<\/strong>
\n Mike & George Kuchar, USA, 1960, 8mm on 16mm, colour, sound, <\/strong>10 min<\/strong>
\nWith the birth of I Was A Teenage Rumpot<\/em>, George and Mike Kuchar stumbled upon something big: their names were Arline, Edie, and Harry. Sensing the tremendous physical potential embedded in this trio\u2019s glands, plans were immediately drawn up to star them in two new films: The Flesh Is Plentiful<\/em> and Butterball 8<\/em>. Arline and Harry\u2019s divorce shattered all future films and Arline went on a drunken binge which ended with her head being shaved by a French woman on grounds of \u2018husband-stealing\u2019.
\n\u2018A documentary about people like you and me, people with a zest for life.\u2019 (George Kuchar)<\/em><\/p>\n

THE SLASHER<\/strong>
\n Mike & George Kuchar, USA, 1958, 8mm on 16mm, colour, sound, <\/strong>21 min<\/strong>
\n\u2018An insane killer stalks the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy virtue and godlessness.\u2019 (George Kuchar)<\/em><\/p>\n

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