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April 2010

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Chicago Theatrical
Premiere

IT CAME FROM KUCHAR

If you're looking to track the birth of independent cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, when the "underground movie" was born, the atomic nucleus of the creative explosion might have been the Kuchar Brothers. Long before YouTube, there were the outrageous, no-budget, underground movies of the legendary filmmaking twins George and Mike Kuchar.

George and Mike grew up in the Bronx making "no-budget" films, compulsively copying Hollywood melodramas with their home-movie camera. But unlike the glamorous Hollywood melodramas they emulated, the campy Kuchar starlets and leading men reflected real life. With crudely applied make-up, they confront everything from their obsessions and insecurities to their sexuality and religion to UFOs and Bigfoot. The Kuchar brother's films charmed Andy Warhol's New York underground film scene in the 1960s, becoming known as the "8mm Mozarts" and their films (such as I Was a Teenage Rumpot, Hold Me While I'm Naked) were notably funnier than those of their peers.

Five decades and hundreds of films later, the Kuchar brothers are still making low-budget movies and although their crazy, homespun films have screened around the world and inspired prominent filmmakers like John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Wayne Wang, and Guy Maddin, George and Mike remain largely unknown. It Came From Kuchar is a hilarious, compelling and inspirational documentary about the passion of filmmaking and artistic compulsion, interweaving the brothers' lives, their admirers, a history of underground film and a "greatest hits" of Kuchar clips into a mesmerizing stream of consciousness. This beautifully crafted film answers the age old question George once asked "There's some things worth living for, isn't there?" Yes indeed, all things Kuchar!

Directed by Jennifer Kroot, U.S.A., 2009, 89 mins.




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Showtimes:
Fri., April 16 at 7 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., April 17-18 at 3, 5, 7 & 9 pm
Mon.-Thurs., April 19-22 at 7 & 9 pm



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