Tuesday, October 25, 2011

clearing things up

I'm going to assume you're either on the Verge mailing list or its friend on Facebook, so you probably  know about the screening at the Crest on Thursday, which is part of the Verge's quarterly partnership with the Crest. But be honest, are you a little confused about what it is?  A little on the fence?  I had never heard of George Kuchar until he died recently, and then people in SF were tweeting about it and I was like who is this dude?  So maybe some of you haven't heard of him either?  If so, take a look at his recent obituary in the Times.  Sounds interesting, and like it will be up your alley if you are into John Waters, camp, or underground films.  So far, so good.  The showing at the Crest is a documentary about the filmmaker, rather than one of his films.  So this will be an intro to his films, most of which aren't available on Netflix (just Sins of the Fleshapoids).  

OK, so we've established that.  There will also be an intro by artist Christine Shields, who studied with Kuchar.  Check out this portrait, that's gotta be Devendra Banhart, right?  I'm sure I spelled that wrong.  Look at those doe eyes.  Remember freak folk?  I kinda miss it.  It's still kind of going on at my house.  Here are the nuts and bolt details about the showing:

Thursday, October 27 · 7:30pm 

Location
Crest Theater
1013 K St
Sacramento, California

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The Crest Theatre will be teaming up once more with Verge Center for the Arts on October 27 at 7:30 for the next installment of our quarterly film screening.This time around we'll be featuring It Came From Kuchar, introduced by past student of George Kuchar, Christine Shields. The film is a hilarious and touching story of artistic obsession, compulsion and inspiration.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Since we're clearing things up, I'd like to say that while freak folk may still be breathing at our house, there are no Devendra Banhart records (that I know of!) in said house.

-miller

Anonymous said...

no records, just downloads. tons and tons of downloads.

-omf

Anonymous said...

Aside to Charles:

"Johnny English Reborn" tanked in the US, but it was the #1 movie this weekend in all of these countries:

Austria
Finland
Germany
Israel
Netherlands
Portugal
South Africa
United Arab Emirates

So there you go!

-DB