Sup Doc: A Documentary Podcast

Doc director Arthur Jones ( Feels Good Man , Antisocial Network ) is a '90s indie rock guy, just like George, so they tackle these two parallel docs. Our first in-person episode in a few years (most recent was Rodney Ascher in 2021 ), Arthur and Giorgio Angelini were in-person in March 2020 to discuss Feels Good Man . PAVEMENTS (Alex Ross Perry, 2024) is a hybrid docufiction about the UR-slacker b...

Hosts Paco and George sit down with director Jeff Feuerzeig to discuss the 20th anniversary of the ground-breaking documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. We hear incredible behind-the-scene stories about the making of DADJ, plus we chat about AI music, indie vs global streaming, punk rock ethos, film production and Jeff delights with a robust list of his recommended docs to watch. Spoiler: the...

Paco and George watched the 2025 Matt Wolf two-part Paul Ruebens doc on HBO. This is prime Gen X imprinting, Paul Reubens' real life definitively laid out for the picking. The impish Reubens created his signature Pee-Wee Herman stage show as a cult Hollywood underground theater piece in 1981, but it didn't take much time for the world to catch on thanks to 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure, also the...

We got tenure! Ten Years of podcasting that is! Paco and George reminisce over you and over docs like American Nightmare Secret Mall Apartment Will and Harper Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story Art For Everybody Sly Lives! aka the Burden of Black Genius XTC - This is Pop The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Breath of Fire Love Has Won Ladies and Gentlemen...50 Years of SNL Music w...

MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM is a 2022 doc based on the book of the same name by Lizzy Goodman. Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, this look at '00s nostalgia focuses on a cluster of rock bands coming out of New York and Brooklyn at the beginning of the George W. Bush era. These bands that went on to define this scene were The Moldy Peaches, The Strokes, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Raptur...

Paco and George catch up on LOW COUNTRY: THE MURDAUGH DYNASTY (HBO) MOONAGE DAYDREAM PELOSI IN THE HOUSE (HBO) SENIOR (Netflix) STUTZ (Netflix) LAST CHANCE U (Netflix) FIRE OF LOVE (Disney+) LIGHT AND MAGIC (Disney+) Follow Sup Doc on: Twitter:  @supdocpodcast Instagram:  @supdocpodcast Facebook:  @supdocpodcast sign up for our mailing list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pr...

IT CAME FROM AQUARIUS RECORDS is a feature-length documentary about the SF-based independent record store,  Aquarius Records . Having closed in 2016 after 47 years, this small apartment-sized store championed local, underground, independent, and challenging music to the masses - most memorably with their infamous bi-weekly, college essay-length, new-release lists. This doc has interviews with...

We’re covering Like a Rolling Stone: the Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres . Released in 2021, Suzanne Joe Kai’s debut feature doc is now available on Netflix. Fong-Torres was the editor at the beginning of Rolling Stone magazine when it was based in San Francisco, and he has a fascinating background at the forefront of ‘60s and ‘70s cultural upheaval. The doc features this godfather of music jour...

George is joined by the director and producers behind the brand new career-spanning Kids in the Hall documentary airing on Amazon Prime on May 20th. Amazon Prime launched a brand new season of The Kids In The Hall sketch show. George is joined by the team behind the new Kids in the Hall documentary, director Reg Harkema and executive producers Nick McKinney and Paul Myers. The Kids in the Hall: Co...

Paco is back for a watch-or-not doc recap/review. It also happens to be the Seventh Anniversary of this podcast! We discuss: Jimmy Saville: A British Horror Story The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die For Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes The Tinder Swindler LuLaRich Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy stuff we're excited about but haven't seen yet: Brett Morgen's David Bowie doc Moon...

We cover the Netflix series Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives . a tale of manipulation, Stockholm Syndrome, and only tangentially veganism. It’s a four part series directed by Chris Smith (American Movie). After marrying a mysterious man who claimed he could make her dog immortal, celebrated raw vegan restaurateur Sarma Melngailis finds her life veering off the rails. This is truly one of the more...

This is one of our BIOPSY episodes where instead of a documentary, we watch a ripped-from-the-headlines fictional account of a true story.  Today we’re covering the Shonda Rhimes Netflix hit Inventing Anna . Anna Sorokin, who went by the made up persona of Anna Delvey, was convicted of larceny in 2019. Delvey rose through New York’s social strata and convinced many institutions and people to...

We deep dive into Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground documentary (2021) on AppleTV. Haynes talks to the surviving members of the band and a lot of New York art world and the Warhol Factory scene about this legendary group that blended drone, multimedia, and doo-wop. The first-person accounts are great and you get steeped in the heady New York days of yore. Our guest is music publicist and Velvets fan...

Paco and George talk to the director of For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close Heather Ross, and actor James Urbaniak. This doc is currently streaming on Amazon, Google Play, AppleTV, and Hulu. For Madmen Only is an intimate look at the tremendously influential comedy and improv guru Del Close. This documentary is an eye-opener for anyone unfamiliar with this improv family tree that includ...

We're discussing  Fantastic Fungi  (2019), directed by Louie Schwartzberg. We look at all the forms of fungi, the roles they play in recycling matter, communicating with the trees, and even their role in human evolution. You may never look at mold the same way again. Our guest for this episode is comedian Jessica Sele. Fantastic Fungi  is a consciousness-shifting film about the myce...

We review the documentary Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 which you can catch on  Vice TV on Sept. 8th , just a few days before the 20th anniversary of the 2001 attacks. The documentary features interviews with comedians including David Cross, Gilbert Godfried, Janeane Garofolo, and Marc Maron about the struggle to re-establish humor’s place in the aftermath of the attacks that day. The film...

We review the controversial Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage (directed by Garrett Price) out now on HBOMax. Boomer nostalgia meets nu metal in a fight where no one wins. The ceremonies took place in Rome, New York in 1999, three decades after the initial Woodstock festival. Seemingly small logistics issues roll into a massive (and literal) shitshow, sprinkled with arson, sexual assaults, and at...

George talks to musician Sam Mickens about one of his favorite docs LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY'S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (2014, David Gregory) It's the mid-'90s. British/South African horror director Stanley pitches a version of the H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau and New Line Cinema picks it up. Some huge movie stars get attached and the set becomes a war of egos, bad...

Paco and George talk about some recent docs THE SPARKS BROTHERS - (Edgar Wright, 2021) In Theaters / Purchase THE DONUT KING (Alice Gu, 2020) Hulu SUMMER OF SOUL (Questlove, 2021) Hulu  THE COCKETTES (Bill Weber & David Weissman, 2002) Documentary Plus   Controversy around Summer of Soul footage We are also super excited about the upcoming Val Kilmer doc ! George found footage of him...

We are talking about This Is Pop , the music documentary series currently streaming on Netflix.  This is Pop uncover’s the real stories behind your favorite pop songs and charts the impact of the festival scene, Auto-Tune, boy bands and more. Our guest is Eric Scwartz who is almost featured prominently — in Episode 2 — simply named Auto-Tune . In this episode the producers examine how&nb...

George talks to the filmmaker Rodney Ascher, whose latest doc is  A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX . We’ve had Ascher on the show before to discuss his inventive genre-bending docs   Room 237  and  The Nightmare . A Glitch in the Matrix  is a look at the increasingly popular simulation theory using Ascher's hyper-referential editing style, CGI animated first-person accounts, Philip...

We cover Animal Passions , a 2004 BBC Channel 4 documentary by Christopher Spencer about zoophiles, people who have sex with animals. Trigger warning! The conversation is longer than the doc itself, but we saved you from watching it yourself. Butch Escobar 's furious rants have become his trademark at such clubs as the San Jose Improv, Cobb's and the SF and Sacramento Punchline. Butch has toured a...

Paco and George meet up with Jordan Brady, who was a stand up comedian before turning into a feature/documentary/commercial director. His trilogy of "I Am Comic" comedian documentaries shows what it takes to perform and live as a comic. Jordan Brady was a stand-up comedian touring nightclubs across America. A self-taught filmmaker, he directed four narrative feature films, three full documentaries...

Special bonus episode! Former guest Kevin Seal runs this weekly music trivia game show on facebook, Paco and George competed against each other for bragging rights, so we only thought it fitting to share the audio in our feed. You can watch the archived episode here : Follow Lo Fidelity here : buy the Body Double album here . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy N...

Today we’re talking about Q: Into the Storm , the six-part HBO docuseries where filmmaker Cullen Hoback goes down several rabbit holes and follows red herrings to track down the roots of the Qanon movement.  Is it a movement, is it a conspiracy theory? Hoback investigates this question, and the bizarre father-son duo at its center.  We also celebrate 6 years of Sup Doc, our distrust of i...