Hold Me While I'm Naked
Bronx-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker George Kuchar has a trembling finger on the pulsebeat of Hollywood; his films fuse kitsch with kitchen sink, melodrama with masochism, film noir with fuchsia. Shot with the assistance of George's twin brother, Michael, Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966) was one of Kuchar's earliest 16mm color productions. The steamy drama of sex, love and loneliness stars Kuchar himself as the tortured hero. As in most of Kuchar's work, both the humor and the sadness of the film come from a deft counterpointing of unattainable Hollywood glamor with unbearable reality.