Sup Doc: A Documentary Podcast

Paco and George look at the new Chris Farley doc, Last Chance U, the Billie Eilish doc The World's A Little Blurry, A Glitch In The Matrix, and more backstory about how they ended up here. Our old interview with Rodney Ascher . Follow us on: Twitter:  @supdocpodcast Instagram:  @supdocpodcast Facebook:  @supdocpodcast sign up for our mailing list And you can show your support to Sup...

George and Aviva dig into the infamous 2019 college admissions scandal, where over 50 people faced criminal charges for racketeering and conspiracy. Mastermind Rick Singer funneled money from wealthy families to bribe coaches and admissions officers at major universities throughout the US, including actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. OPERATION VARSITY BLUES is the first doc to tackle...

George and Paco talk to the filmmaking team behind the HBO docuseries -  Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults . Director and Producer Clay Tweel and Producer Shannon Riggs chronicled the three-decade long saga of Marshall Appelwhite and Bonnie Nettles (AKA “Do and Ti”) who recruited scores of people to their alien-worshipping religious cult starting in the mid -'70s. Interviewing former group mem...

We finally tackle all-time classic Grey Gardens ! Our guest is comedian Amber Preston. The Maysles Brothers were approached by Jackie Onassis to make a movie about the Bouvier family. During the filming, their camera gravitated to The crumbling Long island estate known as Grey Gardens occupied by eccentric relatives “big and little Edie”. It’s a hot mess of co-dependence, animal feces, American ar...

Paco and George crammed all the content so you don't have to! We rant. We review. We recommend. FRAMING BRITNEY SPEARS (2021) dir. Samantha Stark MY OCTOPUS TEACHER (2020) dir. Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed. CRIME SCENE: THE VANISHING AT THE CECIL HOTEL (2021) dir. Joe Berlinger CROCK OF GOLD: A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE MACGOWAN (2020) dir. Julien Temple FAKE FAMOUS (2021) dir. Nick Bilton ALLEN VS FARRO...

It’s a crossover episode with our friends from the FilmDrunk Frotcast . Vince Mancini is Senior Film and Culture writer for FilmDrunk and has been a guest on Sup Doc before ( Episode 57 ). Matt Lieb is a comedian and writer for Newsbroke , and he was actually our very first guest on Sup Doc ( Episode 1 ). This is a fun and loose conversation. We review a few docs: like Lance Oppenheim’s debut...

🔥or ⛔ Paco and George review new (and new-ish) documentaries in the streaming world. Night Stalker: The Hunt For A Serial Killer (Tiller Russell, James Carroll) 2021 on Netflix Tiger (Matthew Hamachek, Matthew Heineman) 2020 on HBO Operation Odessa (Tiller Russell) 2018 on Netflix Jasper Mall (Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb) 2020 Amazon Prime Trial 4 (Rémy Burkel) 2020 on Netflix How To Wi...

Paco and George visit with comedian and game master Jared Logan to discuss the sad and surprising life of Henry Darger, the loner whose exhaustive creative work was discovered posthumously. The ultimate Outsider Artist, Darger created a memoir, a 15,000 page hand-written novel, and giant fifteen-foot paintings, none of which were intended for an audience. The private world he created was fascinati...

George covers a lot of ground with Chris Metzler, Quinn Costello, and Jeff Springer; co-directors of Rodents of Unusual Size. Documentary about the nutria overtaking and destroying Louisiana's swamp land. I also ask Chris and Jeff about their earlier collaborations, Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone and Plagues & Pleasures On the Salton Sea, and their work as Tilapia Film . We learn abo...

Paco and George have been interviewing documentary directors for over five years! We play some interesting clips from these super fun and interesting talks. Ep 137 -Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini director and producer of Feels Good Man Ep 4 - Jodi Wille director of The Source Family Ep 160 - Jeff Feuerzeig director of The Devil and Daniel Johnston Ep 93 - Brent Hodge director of Freaks and Geek...

George and Paco sit down with musician and journalist Kevin Seal to recap Alex Winter’s 2020 documentary Zappa . On this episode we have three different Frank Zappa fans ranging from George, who is new to Zappa’s music, to Kevin, who loves Zappa but occasionally needs a break to Paco, who has been a life long Zappa-head. We get into many topics including: would Zappa be a Trumper, our collective l...

Very excited to have the director of some of our favorite docs, and a huge influence on the kinds of docs we love - Jeff Feuerzeig made HALF JAPANESE: THE BAND THAT WOULD BE KING (1994), THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON (2005), THE REAL ROCKY (2011), AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY (2016), as well as writing and producing many others. He is at work on a documentary about The Legendary Stardust Cowboy Foll...

Paco and George talk upcoming documentaries, their upcoming interview with Jeff Feuerzeig , " Stickergate ", Queen's Gambit, and whatever has been on our watchlists. Alex Winter's Frank Zappa doc is available Thanksgiving weekend HBO's The Mystery of D.B. Cooper releases Nov 25th The Lady and the Dale Judd Apatow's George Carlin doc The Perfect Weapon available on HBO now Follow us on: Twitter:&nb...

Today we wrap up the docuseries  THE VOW  on HBO, the story of the whistleblowers who left the cult group NXIVM, started by “the smartest man in the world” Keith Raniere. We are again joined by the very funny comedian Johnny Pemberton, who loves cult-leader stories. Directed by Jehane Noujaim (Control Room, The Square) and Karim Amer (The Square, The Great Hack), this film relies on insi...

It's JAC-tober! On episode 157 we recap the 2014 documentary Jaco currently streaming on Hulu. Jaco, the doc, is about the brief, brilliant and brutal musical career of the legendary electric bass player Jaco Pastorius a self-taught musician who changed the course of modern music. Never-before-seen archive footage plus interviews unveil the story of Jaco's life, his music, his demise, an...

Today we cover the docuseries THE VOW on HBO, the story of the whistleblowers who left the cult group NXIVM, started by “the smartest man in the world” Keith Raniere. After a decade as a leader in NXIVM, Sarah Edmondson finds herself blindfolded and branded as part of an inner ring of women called DOS. Grooming women and controlling their weight Sarah is blackmailed with "collateral" and is desper...

Today we recap an all-time classic, Capturing The Friedmans , and get into a lively debate about how this documentary stacks up in today’s world. Was director Andrew Jarecki irresponsible in how he handled the footage and information he had? Was there a bias towards helping Jesse? Will our guest Curtis Cook and Paco ever see eye-to-eye on this doc? Listen to find out! The true crime documentary Ca...

Paco and George are pleased to have on today’s guest Tylor Norwood the director of Robin’s Wish. This documentary centers around the final years of Robin Williams and the confusion around why this comedy icon killed himself in 2014. After his death, the media narrative skewed the facts surrounding why Williams died. It wasn’t until a coroner’s report that the complexity of his situation was b...

Today Paco and George are joined by Dakin Hardwick to recap the new Showtime documentary The Go Go’s . Notably the first all-femme band to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and snag a #1 US album.  Directed by Allison Ellwood, this straightforward music documentary looks at the LA group's rise, reign and breakup, along with youthful ambition, firings, drugs, rehab, money squa...

Paco and George are excited to have Rachel Mason, the director of Circus of Books , as their guest on the podcast. Rachel’s parents, Barry and Karen, ran a gay bookstore and porn distribution company out of Los Angeles for over three decades, all while maintaining their tight-knit family, battling the FBI, and living through the AIDS crisis. Her film is surprising, funny, and heartfelt. It also ha...

We look at the 2016 documentary A Genuine Forger ( Un Vrai Faussaire ) directed by Jean-Luc Leon. Available on Amazon Prime . Our guest is comedian and podcaster Scott Simpson. This doc profiles Guy Ribes , one of the world's most notorious art forgers. For over three decades Ribes scored major deals selling works by Picasso, Matisse, and other legends, with a twist: He painted the works himself....

Episode 150! We’re commemorating by taking a look back at one of our favorite documentaries, the 2010 Jeff Malmstein  documentary Marwencol . After recovering from a brutal attack that left him in a coma, Mark Hogancamp builds a miniature World War II-era town in his backyard and creates photographic stories of its intrigues. This is a story about hate crimes, art therapy, and time-traveling...

Paco and George recap the 2008 documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil directed by Sacha Gervasi, who was a teenage Anvil fan and roadie in the '80s. This doc is tragic brilliant and hilarious and is as close to the real life Spinal Tap as possible (and even involves a player named Robb Reiner).  Canadian heavy-metal band Anvil delivered an influential 1982 album that inspired the likes of Anth...

Paco and George look back at one of our favorite docs, Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005) . Pieced together from Timothy Treadwell's own video footage, this is a remarkable examination of the calling that drove Treadwell to live among a pack of wild grizzly bears in Alaska.  A devoted conservationist with a passion for adventure, Treadwell believed he had bridged the gap between human an...

Hosts Paco and George review the 1989 Michael Moore debut Roger & Me . Foundational to modern American documentary, this is a biting, vital, and angry film that is sadly still relevant today. Michael Moore demands answers when General Motors suddenly closes the doors of all its auto plants in the Flint, Michigan, the city where he grew up. With over 30,000 people out of work, Flint is economic...