Ren Faire

Yeah, I'm very excited for that.

Yeah, but I watched his documentary series, which I recommend called Ren Faire.

Like, it's a real situation that happened with this massive Ren Faire in Texas.

And it's basically like real life Game of Thrones as who's going to take over this festival.

It's really good.

It's really cool.

I've heard so many good things about that, and I really want to see his documentary work.

Yeah, Ren Faire, I love the work of John Wilson.

He's here to talk about the making of his new film, Primetime, with Robert Pattinson playing the real-life host of To Catch a Predator, Chris Hansen.

You might remember that the last time we had Lance on the show was for our discussion about his documentary series, Ren Faire.

In fact, prime time is Lance's first fiction feature film.

But as is usually the case in Lance's work, the line between fiction and reality often gets quite blurry.

But with that, let's get into primetime.

So Lance Oppenheim, best known for films like Ren Faire, Sperm World, some kind of heaven.

Lance Oppenheim is making his narrative feature debut this past week with primetime.

We have a screenplay here by, I don't know how to pronounce his name exactly,

I think that's like my favorite things about all of his films.

It's like someone being left out and you think of Ren Faire and you think of the GM, right? He feels left out because he thinks he's doing a good job, but he's not.

You think of some kind of heaven and you think that wife who has a horrible husband who's doing all these drugs and she feels like she isn't loved and has like the saddest scene ever.

to me of her just sitting there standing there outside the party and kind of tapping her foot and i just start weeping crying because this old woman doesn't have this love that she deserves you know and she loves this guy but he can't give her that love and in this movie it's andy kind of standing back and realizing that she's not the showrunner anymore you know and i think that's what kind of makes her want to leave she wants to be in power And then the DA thing happens and she feels in power, right? She's the director.

That's interesting.

That I'm like, I don't know, like, it's

I will say, I don't hate I don't, the reason I don't notice it as much in Some Kind of Heaven and Ren Faire, and I feel it so much in this, is the people he's filming.

In Some Kind of Heaven, it feels so natural.

Getting Best Picture buzz that we just reviewed a second trailer for, Michael.

Did you watch Ren Faire, the miniseries on HBO at all?

No.

So he was behind that.

The film is the stylish narrative feature from debut director Lance Oppenheim.

He's known primarily for documentaries like Ren Faire and Some Kind of Heaven.

Lance is also the director behind the forthcoming Nathan Fielder project, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes.

Prime Time premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will arrive in theaters on Friday, September 25th.

But thanks.

Well, it's interesting because a documentarian, because you go into subcultures.

You focus really intensely on a guy who lived on a cruise boat for two years as well as Ren Faire.

So it is interesting to hear you talk about Chris Hansen because you clearly have thought about it a lot.

He's a documentary filmmaker.

He directed Ren Faire, which you talked about.

Yeah, I love that fucking series.

So so let's make this clear.