Round 7: Tossup 22

Description acceptable. In a film in this genre, a group of people recite the nonsense word “puwaba” thrice for good luck. The title of the first episode of Beef references a film in this genre whose subject says “I love it against my better judgment” to describe a place where “the birds don’t sing, they screech in pain.” Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s DVD commentary for Good Will Hunting reveals that Casey Affleck ad-libbed the line “I swallowed a bug” to allude to a film in this genre. (15[1])In a Community episode parodying this genre, IMDB actor Luiz Guzmán praises a film in this genre that (*) Abed emulates. Jeff Bridges’s narration recounts NATO aircraft training and a flash flood in a 2002 film in this genre, Lost in La Mancha. Eleanor Coppola shot a film in this genre (10[1])in which (10[1])Martin Sheen recounts cutting his hand in a drunken stupor. For 10 points, name this genre of Burden of Dreams and Hearts of Darkness, which document the productions of Fitzcarraldo and Apocalypse Now. ■END■

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