The comedian Nathan Fielder came to fame as the creator and host
of the Comedy Central series “Nathan for You.” The show followed
Fielder as he devised outrageous schemes, ostensibly with the aim
of helping various small businesses. What became clear, though,
was that Fielder was less interested in helping business owners
generate profits than he was in understanding the people ensnared
in his plots. His next project, the HBO series “The Rehearsal,”
was a similar offbeat portrait of offbeat people. At the center
of both projects is Fielder himself, a documentarian whose
motives can sometimes be hard to parse.
This week, Fielder’s first feature-length documentary, “You Can
See Everything,” hits theaters. Co-directed by Lance Oppenheim,
the movie shows Fielder embedding himself into the life of the
disgraced Theranos founder and felon Elizabeth Holmes in the days
leading up to her imprisonment for fraud. The film caused a big
splash when it debuted at the Telluride Film Festival, in part
because it presents Holmes, a mysterious and compelling cultural
figure, through the eyes of Fielder, a mysterious and compelling
filmmaker.
This week, the Times movie critic Alissa Wilkinson and critic at
large Jason Zinoman, who covers comedy, join Michael Barbaro for
a spoiler-free discussion of Nathan Fielder, his career, and why
he might be the perfect person to tell the story of Elizabeth
Holmes.
On Today’s Episode
Alissa Wilkinson, a movie critic at The New York
Times.
Jason Zinoman, a critic at large for the Culture
section of The New York Times.
Background Reading
‘The Real World’ and Nathan Fielder can both thank this cult
filmmaker.
‘You Can See Everything,’ if you could only secure a ticket.
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