The Devil’s Cleavage, Apr 08, 2014 | Boston LGBT Film Festival 2014

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2014

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Director

George Kuchar

Year

1975

Run Time

130

min

Country

USA

Language

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.

This film is presented in with English subtitles.

Partial inspiration for Zippy the Pinhead and eulogized by the NY Times as “a national treasure,” George Kuchar, with his twin brother, Mike, practically invented the campy, no-budget, anti-professional, tasteless, gender-bending underground style later embraced by John Waters and others. He made over 500 films in his career. Tonight we feature two of his best: The Devil’s Cleavage is a farcical send-up of Douglas Sirk-style melodramas, made “as if Sam Fuller and Sternberg had collaborated in shooting a script by Tennessee Williams and Russ Meyer” (Chuck Kleinhans, Jump Cut).

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