https://mrqe.com Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:57:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/couch-m100054898/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/couch-m100054898/ The couch at Andy Warhol’s Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to “perform” on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol’s early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/no-president-m100031893/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/no-president-m100031893/ Smith’s third feature film was originally titled “The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit,” in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Willkie was a liberal Republican who ran against FDR in the 1940’s. It mixes B&W footage of Smith’s creatures with old campaign footage of Willkie. The climax of the work appears to be the “auctioning” of the presidential candidate at the convention. – Flicker

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