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April 17th 2009 at 5:47pm by MattHimes
Above is "Johnny Berlin," a 55-minute portrait of a guy named John Hyrns, who works as a porter on a luxury train while planning to move to Phnom Penh to write a novel. Most of the documentary is just Hyrns talking, which works because he's a pretty funny, compelling talker. Watching him muse philosophically over The Who, his lackadasical approach to dating, how to donate your liver, the power of Windex, navy bean soup and more is almost hypnotic.
It got me thinking about some of my other favorite documentary "characters" -- the talkers, geniuses, visionaries, weirdos, outsiders and whatnot whose virtual company I have enjoyed. Here they are, in no particular order, after the jump:
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