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{{Short description|1966 film by George Kuchar}}
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'''''Hold Me While I'm Naked''''', also known as '''''Color Me Lurid''''', is a 1966 American ] ] ] directed by ].<ref name="GeverParmar2013">{{cite book|last1=Gever|first1=Martha|last2=Parmar|first2=Pratibha|last3=Greyson|first3=John|title=Queer Looks|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IzAE-nyXTikC&pg=PA77|date=17 June 2013|publisher=], ]|isbn=978-1-136-64825-0|page=77}}</ref> It stars Kuchar, Donna Kerness, Stella Kuchar, and Andrea Lunin. The most popular and acclaimed of Kuchar's ] of over 200 films&nbsp;– it was voted 52nd in ''Village Voice''<nowiki/>'s Critics' Poll of the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century.<ref>{{Cite web '''''Hold Me While I'm Naked''''', is a 1966 American ] ] ] directed by ].<ref name="GeverParmar2013">{{cite book|last1=Gever|first1=Martha|last2=Parmar|first2=Pratibha|last3=Greyson|first3=John|title=Queer Looks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IzAE-nyXTikC&pg=PA77|date=17 June 2013|publisher=], ]|isbn=978-1-136-64825-0|page=77}}</ref> It stars Kuchar, Donna Kerness, Stella Kuchar, and Andrea Lunin. The most popular and acclaimed of Kuchar's ] of over 200 films&nbsp;– it was voted 52nd in '']''{{'}}s Critics' Poll of the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century.<ref>{{Cite web
| url = http://www.filmsite.org/villvoice.html |url=http://www.filmsite.org/villvoice.html
| title = 100 Best Films - Village Voice |title=100 Best Films - Village Voice
| website = www.filmsite.org |website=www.filmsite.org
| access-date = 2016-02-26 |access-date=26 February 2016
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331174817/http://www.filmsite.org/villvoice.html
|archive-date=31 March 2014
}}</ref> }}</ref>


==Plot== ==Plot==
The film is about a depressed independent director who becomes awkward when he asks to film his actresses nude. It features partial nudity and sex scenes, as the director becomes jealous after seeing Kerness and her boyfriend make love during a steamy session in the shower. In summary, "a very direct and subtle, very sad and funny look at nothing more or less than sexual frustration and aloneness", according to the ], who screened it in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aafilmfest.org/50/films/hold_me_while_im_naked/|title=Hold Me While I'm Naked|publisher=Ann Arbor Film Festival|accessdate=1 June 2015}}</ref> The film is about a depressed independent director who becomes frustrated when he asks to film his actresses nude. It features partial nudity and sex scenes, as the director becomes jealous after seeing Kerness and her boyfriend make love during a steamy session in the shower. In summary, "a very direct and subtle, very sad and funny look at nothing more or less than sexual frustration and aloneness", according to the ], who screened it in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aafilmfest.org/50/films/hold_me_while_im_naked/|title=Hold Me While I'm Naked|publisher=Ann Arbor Film Festival|access-date=1 June 2015|archive-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923162331/http://aafilmfest.org/50/films/hold_me_while_im_naked/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Production==
Like the majority of Kuchar's films, it stars himself, members of his family, and friends. After regular actress Donna Kerness had to withdraw from the film because of illness, he turned the focus of this ] upon himself as the director of the film within the film.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Pais |first=Clara |title=The Panic Attack: Productions of George Kuchar |journal=] |issue=7 |pages=38–43 |date=3 December 2011 |url=https://issuu.com/oneplusonejournal/docs/issue07 |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref>


==Reception== ==Reception==
''Hold Me While I'm Naked'' is the best known and most acclaimed of Kuchar's films, and ranked 52nd in the Critics' Poll of the 100 best films of the 20th century that appeared originally in '']'' (4 January 2000).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmsite.org/villvoice.html|title=100 Best Films of the 20th Century by the Village Voice Critics' Poll |publisher=AMC Filmsite|accessdate=1 June 2015}}</ref> It is also included in the book '']'', where critic ] calls it "a charming and melodramatic tour de force of underground invention", which "attains a level of emotional seriousness that makes it stand out among the camp and trash Hollywood parodies to which it is inevitably compared. Siegel praised the technical and creative skills of the director, highlighting his "stunning title and production design, ingenious inventory of odd and unflattering camera angles and his insatiable talent at adapting the glamorous concerns and emotional extremes of Hollywood flicks to banal realities and human proportions of his neighborhood friends".<ref name="Schneider2012">{{cite book|last=Schneider|first=Steven Jay|title=1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die 2012|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lKeKMwEACAAJ|date=1 October 2012|location=London, England |publisher=Octopus Publishing Group, Cassell Illustrated|isbn=978-1-84403-733-9|page=449}}</ref> ] referred to the film as "a perfect fusion of mock-Hollywood and mock-avant-garde styles".<ref name="SOC"/> Authors Sébastien Lefait and Philippe Ortoli compared it to films such as ]'s '']'' and ]'s '']'', in that it developed "bastard aesthetics-both in the sense of a degraded, lower quality version of Hollywood aesthetics, and as a more vulgar sexually explicit version of Hollywood plots".<ref name="LefaitOrtoli2012">{{cite book|last1=Lefait|first1=Sébastien|last2=Ortoli|first2=Philippe|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|title=In Praise of Cinematic Bastardy|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1QouBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48|date=15 March 2012|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-3863-4|page=48}}</ref> ''Hold Me While I'm Naked'' is the best known and most acclaimed of Kuchar's films, and ranked 52nd in the Critics' Poll of the 100 best films of the 20th century that appeared originally in '']'' (4 January 2000).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmsite.org/villvoice.html |title=100 Best Films of the 20th Century by the Village Voice Critics' Poll |publisher=Filmsite |access-date=1 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331174817/http://www.filmsite.org/villvoice.html |archive-date=31 March 2014 }}</ref> It is also included in the book '']'', where critic ] calls it "a charming and melodramatic tour de force of underground invention", which "attains a level of emotional seriousness that makes it stand out among the camp and trash Hollywood parodies to which it is inevitably compared. Siegel praised the technical and creative skills of the director, highlighting his "stunning title and production design, ingenious inventory of odd and unflattering camera angles and his insatiable talent at adapting the glamorous concerns and emotional extremes of Hollywood flicks to banal realities and human proportions of his neighborhood friends".<ref name="Schneider2012">{{cite book|last=Schneider|first=Steven Jay|title=1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKeKMwEACAAJ|date=1 October 2012|location=London, England |publisher=Octopus Publishing Group, Cassell Illustrated|isbn=978-1-84403-733-9|page=449}}</ref> Ken Kelman referred to the film as "a perfect fusion of mock-Hollywood and mock-avant-garde styles".<ref name="SOC">{{cite journal|url=http://sensesofcinema.com/2004/cteq/hold_me_while_im_naked/|title=''Hold Me While I'm Naked'': Notes on a Camp Classic |journal=] |issue=32 |publisher=Sensesofcinema.com |date=July 2004|issn=1443-4059 |access-date=1 June 2015}}</ref> Authors Sébastien Lefait and Philippe Ortoli compared it to films such as ]'s '']'' and ]'s '']'', in that it developed "bastard aesthetics-both in the sense of a degraded, lower quality version of Hollywood aesthetics, and as a more vulgar sexually explicit version of Hollywood plots".<ref name="LefaitOrtoli2012">{{cite book|last1=Lefait|first1=Sébastien|last2=Ortoli|first2=Philippe|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|title=In Praise of Cinematic Bastardy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1QouBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48|date=15 March 2012|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-3863-4|page=48}}</ref>

Ken Kelman said:


<blockquote> "A very direct and subtle, very sad and funny look at nothing less than sexual frustration and aloneness. In its economy and cogency of imagining and imaging, HOLD ME surpasses any of Kucher's previous work. The odd blend of glamour and drama with all-too-real life creates and inspires counterpoint of unatttainable desire against undearable actuality."<ref>Film-makers' cooperative catalogue No. 7, 1989</ref></blockquote>
Not all critical attention has been positive, and as of 2015 it has a 52% rating on ].<ref> at ]</ref> A 2004 ''Sense of Cinema'' article stated: <blockquote>Replete with "bad acting", glaring costumes, tacky décor and a soundtrack mixed from the cheesiest of flea-market vinyl, ''Hold Me While I'm Naked'' is a celebration of the intentionally and unintentionally camp. With even the women dressed in a drag-queen aesthetic and the props and music firmly placed in the so-bad-they’re-good genre, the film revels in everything that bourgeois taste despises.<ref name="SOC">{{cite web|url=http://sensesofcinema.com/2004/cteq/hold_me_while_im_naked/|title=Hold Me While I'm Naked|publisher=Sensesofcinema.com|accessdate=1 June 2015}}</ref></blockquote>


==See also== ==See also==
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1966 film by George Kuchar
Hold Me While I'm Naked
Directed byGeorge Kuchar
Written byGeorge Kuchar
StarringGeorge Kuchar
Donna Kerness
Stella Kuchar
Andrea Lunin
Release date
  • 1966 (1966)
Running time15–17 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Hold Me While I'm Naked, is a 1966 American underground short 16 mm film directed by George Kuchar. It stars Kuchar, Donna Kerness, Stella Kuchar, and Andrea Lunin. The most popular and acclaimed of Kuchar's filmography of over 200 films – it was voted 52nd in Village Voice's Critics' Poll of the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century.

Plot

The film is about a depressed independent director who becomes frustrated when he asks to film his actresses nude. It features partial nudity and sex scenes, as the director becomes jealous after seeing Kerness and her boyfriend make love during a steamy session in the shower. In summary, "a very direct and subtle, very sad and funny look at nothing more or less than sexual frustration and aloneness", according to the Ann Arbor Film Festival, who screened it in 2012.

Production

Like the majority of Kuchar's films, it stars himself, members of his family, and friends. After regular actress Donna Kerness had to withdraw from the film because of illness, he turned the focus of this 16 mm film upon himself as the director of the film within the film.

Reception

Hold Me While I'm Naked is the best known and most acclaimed of Kuchar's films, and ranked 52nd in the Critics' Poll of the 100 best films of the 20th century that appeared originally in The Village Voice (4 January 2000). It is also included in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, where critic Marc Siegel calls it "a charming and melodramatic tour de force of underground invention", which "attains a level of emotional seriousness that makes it stand out among the camp and trash Hollywood parodies to which it is inevitably compared. Siegel praised the technical and creative skills of the director, highlighting his "stunning title and production design, ingenious inventory of odd and unflattering camera angles and his insatiable talent at adapting the glamorous concerns and emotional extremes of Hollywood flicks to banal realities and human proportions of his neighborhood friends". Ken Kelman referred to the film as "a perfect fusion of mock-Hollywood and mock-avant-garde styles". Authors Sébastien Lefait and Philippe Ortoli compared it to films such as Ron Rice's Flower Thief and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures, in that it developed "bastard aesthetics-both in the sense of a degraded, lower quality version of Hollywood aesthetics, and as a more vulgar sexually explicit version of Hollywood plots".

Ken Kelman said:

"A very direct and subtle, very sad and funny look at nothing less than sexual frustration and aloneness. In its economy and cogency of imagining and imaging, HOLD ME surpasses any of Kucher's previous work. The odd blend of glamour and drama with all-too-real life creates and inspires counterpoint of unatttainable desire against undearable actuality."

See also

References

  1. ^ Gever, Martha; Parmar, Pratibha; Greyson, John (17 June 2013). Queer Looks. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-136-64825-0.
  2. ^ Schneider, Steven Jay (1 October 2012). 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die 2012. London, England: Octopus Publishing Group, Cassell Illustrated. p. 449. ISBN 978-1-84403-733-9.
  3. "100 Best Films - Village Voice". www.filmsite.org. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  4. "Hold Me While I'm Naked". Ann Arbor Film Festival. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  5. Pais, Clara (3 December 2011). "The Panic Attack: Productions of George Kuchar". One+One Filmmakers Journal (7): 38–43. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  6. "100 Best Films of the 20th Century by the Village Voice Critics' Poll". Filmsite. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  7. "Hold Me While I'm Naked: Notes on a Camp Classic". Senses of Cinema (32). Sensesofcinema.com. July 2004. ISSN 1443-4059. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  8. Lefait, Sébastien; Ortoli, Philippe (15 March 2012). In Praise of Cinematic Bastardy. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-4438-3863-4.
  9. Film-makers' cooperative catalogue No. 7, 1989

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