George Kuchar

George Kuchar

Total Credits at Criticker: 23 (Actor), 25 (Director), 3 (Writer)

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    I, an Actress
    I, an Actress (1977) - Short Film
    A 10-minute film that shows him [Kuchar] at work with one of his actress students... (New York Times)
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    Hold Me While I\
    A very direct and subtle, very sad and funny look at nothing more or less than sexual frustration and aloneness. {ubu)
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    Wild Night in El Reno
    While the 1977 film Wild Night in El Reno is not the first of Kuchar's films to have been shot in Oklahoma, it is the earliest in which weather is the principal character. The only human beings seen in the six-minute piece are a woman briefly shown trying to use a payphone during a downpour, and the filmmaker himself, posed enigmatically beside graffiti proclaiming that "Jimmy Rush is a Pussy". (SenseOfCinema.com)
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    Eclipse of the Sun Virgin
    Bridging that weird void between pornography and a poignant search for one's self, this bit of cinematic splendor slips us into a dimly lit greasy place that cannot be shared with others. (imdb)
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    Pagan Rhapsody
    Pagan Rhapsody (1970) - Short Film
    Again, this is one of the short films made by George Kuchar, but where his other movies are about (hidden) homosexuality and the way the world deals with this, 'Pagan Rhapsody' is more about the loss of identification in these times (even though the short film was made almost 40 years ago, the message stays alive). (imdb)
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    A Reason to Live
    30 mins of fever-pitched melodrama, complete with infidelities, suicide, bowel dysfunction, alcoholism, tragic accidents and bad weather. (imdb)
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    Ascension of the Demonoids
    A big, colorful tapestry about rumors that are in all of the previous UFO movies. A loose story line that weaves in and out of the UFO phenomenon.
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    Forever and Always
    A marriage on the rocks that hurts the heart almost as much as the colors hurt the eye. "... a full color portrait of a break-up that comes closer than any other to being an operetta."
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    Cyclone Alley Ceramics
    Kuchar is in a motel room in Oklahoma (where his Bronx accent must stand out in this surrounding), whose only companion is this ceramic doll (whose mouth is morphed in post-production to seem like it is talking). (imdb)
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    Scarlet Droppings
    Taped in Normal, Illinois, during the height of autumn, a snapshot of a young girl triggers a meditation on dying innocence and sizzling sausages as a low, winter sun ignites the smoke of greasy longings and meat-eating hunger. (imdb)
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    A Passage to Wetness
    Off screen, Kuchar muses on strangers, old friends and several pets such as a one-eyed cat. This experimental video highlights loneliness and the simple act of being.
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    The Cage of Nicholas
    A 10 minute short by George Kuchar which documents a visit with producer Christopher Coppola (nephew of Francis Ford Coppola and brother of Nicolas Cage), during which Coppola rambles on about cooking, film tricks, and his shaved head.
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    Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof
    Experimental film, a melodrama that ends with an all-consuming fire. (mubi.com)
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    The Mongreloid
    The Mongreloid (1978) - Short Film
    A man, his dog, and the regions they inhabited, each leaving his own distinctive mark on the landscape. Not even time can wash the residue of what they left behind. (Letterboxd)
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    Weather Diary 3
    Weather Diary 3 (1988) - Short Film
    George goes to Oklahoma, but there's a lull in storm activity. It's spring, and though there's romance in the air, the lightning just doesn't strike; so George makes his own rain--of sorts. Despite the drought, the videos must go on. (vdb.org)
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    The Devil\
    One of Kuchar's few feature-length works is this ribald pastiche to postwar Hollywood melodrama. (Mubi)
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    Corruption of the Damned
    The film might seethe with violence and sex, the two most attractive things you can put on the screen, but beneath them a twisted outlook pervades. (mubi.com)
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    Honey Bunnies on Ice
    Wintry animals explain a neurosis.
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    Temple of Torment
    A videoscape diary of the horror of being enclosed with a television.
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    The Hairy Horror
    A diary of monsters.
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    Weather Diary 5
    Weather Diary 5 (1989) - Short Film
    George gets rained in in OK where everything is not okay.
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    Weather Diary 1
    Weather Diary 1 (1986) - Direct-to-Video
    George watched the weather in El Reno.
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    Holidaze
    Holidaze (1994) - Short Film
    George spends quality time with his friends Karen and Carla in this holiday video. Featuring whizzing geometric irises, stock footage of angelic-looking kids opening presents, and MIDI versions of Christmas songs. It became a tradition for Kuchar to break out the camera during his friends’ holiday festivities, but HOLIDAZE is unique for its visual verve, with lo-fi effects reminiscent of an arcade game. (Letterboxd)
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    Symphony for a Sinner
    A dream of a performance put on by students.
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    Cattle Mutilation
    A cameraman is driven insane by an assignment.
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