Joshua Ligairi » 3.3.11 »The lovely and amazing Whitney Matheson (Pop Candy) over at USA Today just wrote up her "Top 10 Film Podcasts" and we at The Documentary Blog Podcast somehow slipped in under the radar at the number 10 spot.
It is a huge honor to be listed among the giants of filmmaker interviewers like Creative Screenwriting's Jeff Goldsmith (now hosting The Q&A) and the undisputed master, Elvis Mitchell of The Treatment. These two guys directly inspired the creation of our podcast.
We were also listed with super-popular podcasts like Kevin Smith's Hollywood Babble-On and guys who have the movie podcasting thing down to a science like Filmspotting and The /Filmcast. Stephen Tobolowsky (and his quirky, personal essay of a show, The Tobolowsky Files), while the oddball on this list and maybe more fitting with a list that includes The Moth or This American Life, is a raconteur in the truest sense of the word and his podcast is a great listen.
Anyway, if it wasn't obvious, we're really excited to be mentioned here after only 10 episodes and, buoyed by this achievement (of sorts), I personally vow to make the podcast increasingly better from now on. Check out Whitney Matheson's original article at Pop Candy for some great recommendations and, if you are as big a film geek as me, subscribe to these other great podcasts on iTunes. I subscribe to over half of them myself.
I'd also recommend checking out Mark Maron and RadioWest for awesome interviews, Film Junk and A Damn Movie Podcast for some laid-back but knowledgeable chat, The Business and On the Media for industry insider stories, and Film Week for professional critic reviews. So many more but these and those on the Pop Candy list are a good place to start.
