Posts Tagged 'Mike Kuchar'
Mike Kuchar in the press!
Published July 16, 2010 Uncategorized ClosedTags: Artscape, Baltimore Sun, City Paper, Film, free, Maryland Film Festival, Mike Kuchar, shorts, underground
TONIGHT!!! Underground film legend MIKE KUCHAR
MFF PRESENTS: FREE Shorts at The Charles during Artscape!
Published July 12, 2010 Uncategorized 1 CommentTags: Artscape, flier, free, Maryland Film Festival, Mike Kuchar, shorts, The Charles
Click on the flier to see the full lineup of shorts programs presented by the Maryland Film Festival at The Charles Theatre this weekend:
MFF PRESENTS: AN EVENING WITH UNDERGROUND FILM LEGEND MIKE KUCHAR!
Published July 9, 2010 Uncategorized 1 CommentTags: Artscape, free, Maryland Film Festival, Mike Kuchar
Maryland Film Festival proudly presents a career-spanning, FREE shorts program of work from legendary underground filmmaker Mike Kuchar, presented by the filmmaker!
MFF will kick off its Artscape 2010 programming on Friday, July 16th with five short films from Mike Kuchar, a major voice in the underground film scene since the 1960s, who will introduce his work and answer questions afterward. Kuchar pioneered a campy, stylized, and over-the-top hilarious style that provided inspiration for the likes of John Waters and Andy Warhol. His career began with 8mm films made in the Bronx as a teenager in the 1950s, and has evolved into a singular body of work that includes over 50 titles on 8mm, 16mm, and video formats.
Together with his twin brother and sometime collaborator, filmmaker George Kuchar, Mike co-authored the memoir Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool, published with an introduction from Waters. The brothers were also the subject of the documentary It Came From Kuchar (which had a fantastically well-received screening recently within The Charles’ Cinema Sundays series, hosted by MFF director Jed Dietz).
Festivalgoers lucky enough to have attended MFF 2000’s Brothers Kuchar showcase (which included one of Mike’s signature titles, 1965’s Sins of the Fleshapoids) know how charming an evening with Mike Kuchar and his work will be. Don’t miss this amazing event!
The films included in this special MFF/Artscape Mike Kuchar showcase:
The Craven Sluck (1967)
Stranger in Apartment 9F (1995)
Animal (2009)
Echo’s Garden (2010)
Medusa’s Gaze (2010)
THIS PROGRAM IS FREE and takes place at the CHARLES THEATER at 7pm on FRIDAY, JULY 16. FILMMAKER MIKE KUCHAR WILL INTRODUCE HIS FILMS AND ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS!
JOHN WATERS
Published May 3, 2010 Uncategorized ClosedTags: Burroughs, Candy Darling, Cinema Sundays, George Kucha, John Waters, Mike Kuchar, UNITED 93
Yesterday, I hosted the Cinema Sundays screening of IT CAME FROM KUCHAR, a wonderful doc about the seminal underground filmmakers Mike and George Kuchar, and it was a lot of fun. I love the CS crowd, and host/standup comedian jonathan palevsky’s enthusiasm is infectious.
The Kuchars were honored guests at MFF 2002, and we showed a number of their films and videos. They’ve had influence way beyond their modest commercial and critical success; often cited alongside Warhol and Brakhage, you can see their influence today in South Park episodes and Judd Apatow films.
It also reminded me of what an incredible observer of our society John Waters is. He is interviewed extensively in the Kuchar film, and in two movies you’ll have a chance to see at this weekend’s film festival, BEAUTIFUL DARLING and BURROUGHS, both terrific. In each case, John’s interviews get to the heart of the subject. Waters is compulsively attracted to interesting people, but his ability to observe and then articulate what makes them special is rare.
I don’t know what John will say, of course, but he’s chosen Paul Greengrass’ great movie, UNITED 93, as his pick this year, and we’re expecting some of the cast, so you’ve got opportunities to experience John Waters’ insights on film and in person in the next few days.
-Jed Dietz, MFF Director
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