Cinelicious Pics has detailed the Blu-ray release of director Adam Rifkin's Giuseppe Makes a Movie. The stranger-than-fiction documentary follows DIY filmmaker/musician Giuseppe Andrews, a one-time teen actor (Independence Day, Detroit Rock City) who's made over 30 experimental features set in a demented alternate universe. The film streets on June 9th.
While the rest of America slept, Andrews was making movies with titles like Doily's Summer of Freak Occurrences, Trailer Town and Utopia Blues. Populated by real-life alcoholics and drug addicts, trash-talking senior citizens and trailer park residents dressed in cow outfits and costume-shop wigs, the casts act out booze-fueled vignettes of severe psychosis filtered through Giuseppe's John Waters-meets-Harmony Korine-meets-Werner Herzog sensibility.
Rifkin (Look, The Dark Backward) creates a wildly surreal, outrageously funny and strangely touching portrait of a truly Outsider Artist inhabiting a world few of us even know exists, as he follows Giuseppe and his seriously impaired troupe on the production of his latest 2-day opus, Garbanzo Gas, starring Vietnam Ron as a Cow given a weekend reprieve from the slaughterhouse at the local motel. Beyond the sun-stroked Theater of the Absurd madness of Giuseppe's vision, there is a remarkable and endearing sense of family among the director, his amiably bonkers dad Ed, patient girlfriend Mary, Sir Bigfoot George and the rest of his surreal Trailer Park rep company. As skate-punk Spit sagely observes about Giuseppe's movies: "They're just like, nothing really makes any sense, and I don't know, that's kinda how reality is, and nobody really cares to accept that."
The documentary explores the Giuseppe universe, showing how the self-taught filmmaker captures an unexpected level of humanism and creates a family unit for a group of people who need one.
Special features include:
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Garbanzo Gas feature film
Highlight Reel
Interview with Giuseppe Andrews
Interview with Bill Nowlin
5TH Wheel TV Pilot
Trailer
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