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It is fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE!
Directed by
David Brothers
and Crispin Glover
 Rarely do I ever see a live performance in the Magno screening room.
In fact, I don't think I ever did before. But Crispin Glover is
doing his road show in conjunction with the opening of “Beowolf” and
it's playing for a few days at the IFC theater in the Village.
The reason why he was doing it for the three people sitting there
and myself is that part of the show is a screening of a film he did
as a favor to a fellow named Steven C. Stewart, now deceased.
Stewart, who had acute cerebral palsy and was confined to a
wheelchair and unable to speak clearly enough to be understood by
all but a few, was a friend of cinematographer David Brothers and
both had worked on one of Glover's previous projects. Ten years ago,
Stewart had painstakingly dictated a film script to Brothers, in
which his sexual fantasies were fulfilled. In other words, he wanted
to be a porn star! Many years later, Glover, looking for a project
strange enough for his reputation, decided to fulfill Stewart's
wish.
Stewart plays Paul, who, for a guy with his disability, gets around
quite a lot. He meets a certain Linda Barnes(Margit Carstensen),
they become friends, and when she refuses to take the relationship
to the next level, he kills her. Then he goes after her daughter
Karma(Carrie Szlasa), who has the hots for him [it's Stewart's
fantasy after all], and then a couple of others(Jami Ferrell and
Lauren German) before a not-so-grizzly ending. However we do see one
of the gals giving Paul a blow job, which means that poor Mr.
Stewart got his rocks off for real before he died a week after
filming wrapped.
I can understand the feelings of Glover and Brothers in doing what
is, after all, an act of charity for a poor, lost soul, but the
simple fact is, is that this is the worst movie of the year. I know
that there are a few others almost as bad which I SAID were the
worst movies of the year, but this has horrible acting, bad editing,
inept staging, and appears was filmed in super-8. It's boring,
pedantic and at only seventy minutes, far too long. We know about
Stewarts handicap, but the sound guy could have made his talking
somewhat clearer, especially since he has some long speeches.
The reason people are going to see this film is to see Glover's
slide show. He reads selections from his unreadable books, and one
can be fascinated as to why he's going around embarrassing himself
presenting such lousy dribblings. He showed only a third of the
presentation, and I guess these were what he thought were the best.
The presentation is not worth viewing, nor is the movie.
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