The Astrologer

I feel like it would be remiss of me to not inform any and everyone of you who might take a gander at this blog that Craig Denney's absolutely bonkers and hard to see film "The Astrologer" has leaked its way to YouTube.  This is essential viewing if you're into outsider filmmaking or just bafflingly insane movies.  It's extraordinary.  A vanity film project (with ample financial backing no less) from a mysterious filmmaker full of epic ambitions and narrative ineptitude.  Denney directs and stars as a world famous astrologer...who is also a diamond smuggler...who is also a successful filmmaker and producer in a "Citizen Kane"-ish rise and fall that ends on a pretentious quote from "King Lear."  The film shoots for the stars and misses spectacularly.  Come for the jarring, smash cut editing that can feel like someone stuck in a reel from a completely different movie.  Stay for the scene entirely soundtracked by Procol Harum's "Grand Hotel" in which the lyrics literally describe what's happening on screen.  But whatever you do, make sure you set your eyes on this bizarro oddity.  Check out a trailer made by the Hellfire Video Club below.