George Kuchar – MRQE

Weather Diary 3 (V)

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Set in and around a Reno motel, the tape records George’s growing friendship with a young weather expert.

Forever and Always

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Experimental short by George Kuchar

A Reason to Live

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“This film is about depression, although it’s not that depressing. I suppose it has a message of faith and hope in it … it does for me …. But then again my interest may not match yours. It was shot in San Francisco and in Central Oklahoma with a cast of one man and four women. Crushing emotions are indulged in against a massive meteorological background that brings inspiration and terror to the characters involved.”

The Mongreloid

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man, his dog, and the regions they inhabited, each leaving his own distinctive mark on the landscape. Not even time can wash away the residue of what they left behind.

The Devil’s Cleavage

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“One of Kuchars few feature-length works is this ribald pastiche to postwar Hollywood melodrama, that period when the studios were trying very hard to be adult. The intricate, overheated plot involves a nurse trapped in an unhappy marriage who escapes the big city in search of greener pastures in Blessed Prairie, Oklahoma. Swerving from earnest homage to dark satire, Kuchar simultaneously imitates and savages the legacy of Sirk, Preminger and Minnelli that inspired him, gleefully intertwining the suggestive and the scatological, while also pointing towards the later postmodern parodies of Cindy Sherman. The Devils Cleavage is also a rich time capsule of 1970s San Francisco, replete with cameos from Curt McDowell and Art Spiegelman.” hcl.harvard.edu

Unstrap Me

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Exhausted by a sexually frustrating home life in the Bronx, portly, 65-year-old Uncle Bojo tosses aside all responsibilities, leaves his wife, Stella, and sets out in search of adventures.

Hold Me While I’m Naked

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Presented as loosely autobiographical, Hold Me While Im Naked centres on the tribulations of an independent filmmaker, frustrated at every turn as he tries to make a film that pretends to artistic merit.