Tag: Documentary
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The Contestant
Today we watched the documentary, The Contestant. I think we all really enjoyed it. The movie takes place in late 1990s Japan. There was a very “Truman”-like TV show on Japan at the time called A Life in Prizes. The movie was about a young Japanese comedian, named Nasubi. Which is apparently the name for…
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Ren Faire
Today we’re watching Ren Faire, an HBO documentary about behind the scenes of a Texas medieval festival. So far, the first episode was very unexpected…and in a good way. There is an elderly eccentric retiring “King”, who, not only names his junk, but says it controls him and he listens. He wants to die with…