Alright film fans, you may know all there is to know about the great Edward D. Wood, Jr. (or at least you’ve seen Tim Burton’s wonderful 1994 bio-pic Ed Wood), but did you know anything about a similar low budget (not really a “B picture”, but closer to a “Z picture”) director from “south of the border”? Well, the new film The Fantastic World Of Juan Orol will give you a crash course in the colorful life and fairly long (1935 to 1968) directing career of Mr. Juan Orol. After a brief clip with the actual Orol the film jumps to 1982 and the now elderly Juan (Roberto Sosa), dressed in his 1940′s finery, is sitting in the lobby of a movie theatre showing his film retrospective to only a few film buffs. He then begins to regale a young usher with his story. Born in Galicia, he moved to Cuba. After failed attempts in boxing,...
- 11/16/2013
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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