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Bonus: Ren Faire feat. Lance Oppenheim
🕑 Added 2024-06-13 21:09:21 +0000 UTCWe talk to Lance Oppenheim, director of Ren Faire, the new docu-series on HBO. Ren Faire looks at the drama behind the scenes of the enormous Texas Renaissance Festival. When capricious 86-year-old owner and founder “King” George Coulam attempts to retire, his underlings, the obsequious & loyal-to-a-fault Jeff and the ambitious & conniving Louie, are pitted against each other in their attempts to gain control of the park. It’s a darkly comedic real-life Shakespeare story, but it also touches on a lot of ideas about work, employment, ownership, power, performance, alienation, and an (unhealthy?) obsession with the past, all in the context of a very particular modern workplace.
All three episodes of Ren Faire are available now to stream on Max (the place for HBO).
Comments
William Jarvis
Dude Jeremy Strong is great in this as Louie but I think he's being typecast as a fail son with grand dreams and a white knuckling drug problem
KS
Always good to hear from a director or other person who is a popcorn fan. I hate theaters without popcorn.
Matthew Black
1.) George is clearly functionally impotent. 2.) Given some of the conversations about numbers that appear, Texas’s lax taxation, and the difficulty finding a buyer I’m making a guess that TRF’s bookkeeping is fucked to hell and nobody can tell what the company is worth.
Frank Gorczyca
Ill never tell an artist how to do there work, but huge missed oppertunity for a sick Enya drop on the final fade out....
