When docs cry

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Prince is the subject of a new film from one of the greatest living documentarians, but it might never come out and almost no one’s seen it. We talk to someone who did: editor and writer Sasha Weiss. Meanwhile, the rise in pop star docs can be a good hang for fans, but when a film is a glorified press release, we miss out on a lot, says journalist Matthew Belloni. This episode was produced by Zachary Mack and Miles Bryan, edited by Lissa Soep, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Prince performs during Super Bowl XLI in 2007. Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage. Check out his guitair solo during a performance of "While My Guitar Genty Weeps" at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004: Director's Cut: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison - YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Today Explained. Martha Stewart is out publicizing her new Netflix documentary in the most
0:06.7	hilarious way. Are you happy with the documentary and how it turned out? Yeah, the documentary is fine.
0:12.7	It's left out a lot, so I'm going to go talk to them about maybe doing version two. By telling
0:19.4	Jimmy Fallon, among others, that she low-key hates it.
0:21.6	I don't like going to psychiatrists and talking about your feelings and all of that stuff.
0:26.6	And the director was so intense on delving.
0:30.6	Powerful people like to control their images, and more and more often, celebrity documentaries allow them to do that.
0:36.6	The Martha Dock didn't, and neither did a new and very mysterious documentary about prints
0:41.9	that, for reasons we're going to explain, you may never get to see.
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