The Big Picture · Interview · Roundtable
March 27, 2018/ 48 min/ Sean Fennessey
Sean Fennessey talks to Chapman and McClain Way and producer Mark Duplass about Wild Wild Country, their Netflix docuseries on the Rajneeshpuram commune: 300 hours of unseen archive, five days spent with Ma Anand Sheela, the land-use and church-and-state fights buried under the guns and the sex, and Duplass admitting he half-envies the idealism.
5 films across 2 segments.
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The Way brothers and Mark Duplass on building a cult on Netflix
The Ways' only prior film, a 72-minute doc about a forgotten Portland baseball team, financed themselves and picked up by Netflix out of Sundance. They keep returning to it as the small credit that made Wild Wild Country a hard sell to interview subjects and to buyers alike.
The last great thing they've seen the show's closing question
Watched it on a flight to Copenhagen; says the father-son scene wrecked him for the rest of the trip.
Watched the whole Before trilogy in a row while sequestered with strep throat; a huge Linklater fan, he came out of it reassured he was in the right line of work.
Also mentioned raised along the way
Mentioned in passing Man on WireProject NimCreepPorky's II: The Next Day
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV Wild Wild CountryThe Larry Sanders ShowRoom 104The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling
Web Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
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