“Giuseppe Makes a Movie” is a movie about movies, very much in the vein of “American Movie.” The star is director Giuseppe Andrews, an outsider artist with a passion for movies that dwarfs anything you’ve ever felt about anything. While Giuseppe Andrews isn’t a household name he’s been churning out trailer park cinema for years, a few of which have seen distribution from famed independent studio Troma Entertainment. Trailer park cinema isn’t a euphemism either, Giuseppe Andrews works from a trailer park in California and populates his movies with misfits, eccentrics, and neglected members of society. In “Giuseppe Makes a Movie,” from “Detroit Rock City” director Adam Rifkin, we watch Giuseppe Andrews shoot “Garbanzo Gas,” his tenth film, in a remarkable two and a half days.

“Giuseppe Makes a Movie” Trailer

It sound simple, but it adds up to one of the most remarkable documentaries of the decade. “Giuseppe Makes a Movie” introduces us to Giuseppe Andrews and his producer, Big Ed, as they prep to shoot Giuseppe’s next movie. For Andrews, whose camcorder films typically cost around $1000, this means picking up booze for the actors, going to a junk shop for props (this time he settles on a wig, a pin-up party favor cowboy, and a fake fish), then tracking down the homeless or otherwise vagabond members of his regular troupe of actors.

Giuseppe Andrews’ Trailer - “In Our Garden”

The magic of “Giuseppe Makes a Movie” depends entirely on Giuseppe Andrews himself, whose tight clothes and freewheeling comparisons of his own work to Rainer Werner Fassbinder (“Ali: Fear Eats the Soul,” “World on a Wire”) and Luis Buñuel could easily tip into hipster stereotype, but whose eccentric vision never allows him to be labelled or boxed.

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While Giuseppe Andrews and his aerodynamic directing pants provide motivation to “Giuseppe Makes a Movie” and keep the tone propulsive, it's Andrews’ cast of actors that will leave the biggest impression. Giuseppe Andrews’ actors are mostly old men, many of them down on their luck or slowly piecing together their lives after many sad years. From jolly, homeless alcoholic Walt Dongo to the roughed-up, insightful Vietnam Ron, “Giuseppe Makes a Movie” is unflinching about their suffering without subtracting from the fun and fulfillment they find working on movies together. Andrews and his movies unite them as friends.

By the end of “Giuseppe Makes a Movie” you’ll believe in Giuseppe Andrews. You'll believe in his movies. You'll believe that a communal story can enrich the tellers and that nothing is funnier than a naked old man pretending to have sex with a ghost.