Exiting Through The 2010s

Zach Lamplugh (filmmaker, 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot) is with us to talk all things doping in sports with 2017's Icarus. Although we see shades of other docs we have covered here like Citizenfour and Inside Job, Icarus has enough going for it to stand out like Bryan Fogel's sly direction, how our first Trump-era oscar-winning doc affects this winning the oscar, and how Netflix pulled one of their first big wins at the academy awards 

Dan Mecca (The Film Stage, The B-Side) is back for the longest movie we've ever covered in 30 for 30's damning portrait of OJ Simpson in O.J.: Made In America. Does this even count as a movie or is this a tv show? Is this the strongest set of best documentary nominees in the decade? Is OJ still as famous and beloved as he was decades ago? All this and more on this episode with jack and clay!

We're joined by Sydney Urbanek (The Guardian) again while we revisit the tragedy of one of the 21st century's most iconic musicians with Amy Winehouse in Asif Kapadia's Amy. You'll hear us dig into the media's vicious attacks on Winehouse's behavior while she was with us, our different experiences with her music and the unique way the film was constructed with subtracting talking head interviews 

Bilge Ebiri (New York Magazine, Vulture) returns to revisit Citizenfour with us, the doc which gives us an intimate look at whistleblower Edward Snowden and which also happened to be one of the most celebrated Oscar-winning docs of the decade. With topics including how our public relationship with Glenn Greenwald has evolved over the years and Poitras' decision to put herself in the film, for better or for worse Citizenfour is one of the docs defining the 2010s 

We're welcomed by the great Valerie Faye (We Need To Talk About Kevin) to dissect "20 Feet From Stardom", the award-winning doc pulling back the curtain on the role of best backup singing in many decades of music. We'll touch on the career of Morgan Neville, mistakes Neville made in making the singers distinct from one another, and how different all our taste in music is 

Arlin Golden (Wiseman podcast, Video Project) joins us to reflect on the sensation of Rodigeuiz in "Searching for Sugar Man", a movie that reveals itself to be a love letter to a musician in a bygone era more than anything else. We all agreed in the ep this would make a perfect episode on "Documentary Now" and the specific stigma that comes with winning best doc feature 

We have Tyler Harford here with us to talk Undefeated, a pretty good documentary about high school football that just so happened to win the oscar. Even though there's not much to go into with the doc itself, topics include the toxic masculinity that football brings out of American men and the awkward absence of race found within Coach Courtney's relationship with the players 

It's the start of a new 2010s award winners miniseries this time with the oscar-winning documentaries, starting off in the year 2010, its Inside Job. The lovely Roxana Hadadi (Vulture, Roger Ebert) is back with us to talk about Charles Ferguson's take on current event issues rather than Aaron Sorkin or Adam McKay, the use of Matt Damon as narrator, and starting our ten episodes long conversation into what makes an Oscar-winning documentary 

Who is considered to be one of the most versatile actresses we currently have, Charlize Theron, continued to increase her stock in the 2010s and then helmed Atomic Blonde in 2017 with the co-director of the already popular John Wick series in David Leitch. With us is Emily Jacobson (Film Daze) to talk about the lack of conspiracy spy thrillers nowadays and poor needle-drop uses we see here 

We welcome Abby Monteil (Elite Daily, Insider) to an episode about a very important movie in the last year of the decade in Celine Sciamma's swooning romance. Examining the female gaze, NEON's dominant 2019 slate and Sciamma's process into the meticulous planning with all aspects of the film