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Best Worst Movie Big river Man
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Alabama dentist George Hardy’s brief flirtation with acting comes back
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Director John Maringouin and producer Molly Lynch, who worked together
Director: Michael Paul Stephenson to haunt him – playfully – in this documentary about Troll 2, the horrify-
Director: John Maringouin
on the 2006 documentary Running Stumbled (SDFF 29), a festival circuit hit,
Producers: Michael Paul Stephenson, ingly inept horror movie that popular movie website Rotten Tomatoes
offer another strange-but-true cinematic portrait, this time of Martin Strel
Producers: Molly Lynch, Mario Florio,
Lindsay Rowles Stephenson,
rates at zero. Not a sequel to Troll, the bad-enough 1986 Sonny Bono
Kevin Ragsdale, Roger M. Mayer
– an aging, alcoholic, bigger-than-life extreme swimmer from Slovenia who
Brad Klopman
vehicle, it isn’t even actually about trolls but rather goblins – goblins in
takes on the Amazon River in a self-proclaimed campaign for clean water,
Cinematographer: John Maringouin
Cinematographer: Katie Graham
the town of Nilbog (get it?) who transform people into vegetables and
peace, and friendship. Strel has also swum the Danube, the Mississippi, and
MS: A to Z
Editors: John Maringouin, Molly Lynch
Editors: Katie Graham,
then eat them. Made by an Italian crew with a loose grasp of English,
the heavily polluted Yangtze. But the Amazon is almost twice as long as MS: A to Z
il
Andrew Matthews
Cast: Martin Strel, Borut Strel,
it has spawned numerous fan clubs, effectively becoming The Rocky
any other river and presents the greatest dangers: not only is it polluted
Matthew Mohlke
il
Cast: Michael Paul Stephenson,
Horror Picture Show of a new generation – which loves it all the more
but it’s filled with piranhas, anacondas, crocodiles, alligators, river sharks,
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George Hardy
2009 / color / 100 min.
for the fact that in its straight-faced sincerity, it seems actually to have
and, perhaps worst of all, the candiru – a small, parasitic fish that, when
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2009 / color / 93 min.
been the creation of “people who knew how to make a film but had
attracted by the smell of urine, can allegedly swim up the urethra and h
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release barbed spines that are only removable by surgery.
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suffered quite a heavy blow to the head,” in the words of UK genre
authority M. J. Simpson.
John MarinGouin
John Maringouin aims to show life at Big River Man charts the course of Strel’s 66-day water journey with the
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its most bizarre and poignant, from the
help of his son, Borut – a shy, 24-year-old computer programmer who left
Cast as the child-star of Troll 2 at ten
Director Michael Paul Stephenson, who was himself a child actor in Troll
MTV hit Jackass to Running Stumbled,
years old, Michael Paul Stephenson has
college and put his own hopes aside to serve as his father’s publicist and
2, charts the path the film has taken to cult status through midnight
his first film, which won an Independent
spent most his life in the film industry,
fundraiser. Revered in Slovenia as an icon on a par with the president, Strel
Spirit Award in 2008 for its personal
working with such talents as Academy
screenings, house parties, and even special engagements in Iraq. In the
look at his reunion with his estranged,
begins to carve out an equal reputation among Amazonians as Fish Man,
Award nominee Taika Waititi and
oddly uplifting course of events, Hardy becomes, once again, the star of
drug-addicted father.
enduring in the process blood pressure levels conducive to heart attack,
Robert Redford. He has also worked the show – grappling with his sudden, weird celebrity as he is tracked by
dehydration, diarrhea, exhaustion, and infection from subcutaneous larvae.
as a cinematographer and won the
autograph hounds and cheered on like a comeback kid. Fortunately for
American Gem Screenplay Award for
audiences of both Troll 2 and Best Worst Movie, he has the gracious wit
While his work with MTV’s stunt-based reality hit Jackass can only have
his screenplay Orange. Best Worst
Movie is his directing debut.
and levelheadedness to laugh at himself while enjoying his new moment
helped Maringouin prepare for his encounter with Strel, Lynch – who has
in the sun. worked in editing and animation as well as in special effects for major
studio releases – is best known for her 2004 documentary Gucci Crackheads
Sponsored by:
Battle Nihilism.
In cooperation with: Colorado Athletic Club
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