Yesterday, Martin Wuttke – who once played Joseph Goebbels – spoke the intro to the Bartok concert at the Philharmonie. Tonight – and tomorrow (after the Alban Berg opera!) – he will play police detective Andreas Keppler in a double episode of Tatort.
Dir: Alan Schneider, with Buster Keaton – Also Known as Samuel Beckett’s Film. A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, one ‘shhh!’) in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley’s principle ‘esse est percipi’ (to be is to be perceived), Keaton’s very existence conspires against his efforts.
George and Mike Kuchar (pronounced KOO-char) began receiving attention in the underground film world in the early ’60s with sardonic sendups like “I Was a Teenage Rumpot,” “Night of the Bomb” and “Lust for Ecstasy.” The films spoofed the Hollywood schlock the brothers devoured during weekend marathons at the local movie house, where they essentially grew up, while conveying what The New York Times, in a 1983 retrospective, called “a compassionate sense of the human condition, especially of loneliness.”
As the two developed individual styles, George Kuchar directed the 1966 film short “Hold Me While I’m Naked,” a semi-autobiographical rumination on the frustrations of a maker of soft-core pornographic films. Many movie scholars consider it one of camp’s defining texts. Along with his “Weather Diaries,” a series of films he made on annual visits to a trailer park in Oklahoma during tornado season, it is his best-known work.
Mr. Kuchar’s ability to make movies on a shoestring during a prolific career in which he sometimes made two or three films a year for the art-house circuit was a point of pride for him, and an inspiration to several generations of young filmmakers. [Source]
Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966)
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Eclipse Of The Sun Virgin (1967)
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Pagan Rhapsody (1970)
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I, An Actress (1977)
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The Mongreloid (1978)
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His twin brother, Mike Kuchar, also made experimental films:
The Craven Sluck
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Never-before-published photograph of director Stanley Kubrick standing on the set of the hedge maze during production of The Shining.
