Marc Maron Cries at SXSW Sharing How Sharon Stone Helped Him Channel His Grief Over Lynn Shelton Into His Acting

variety.com:

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer “I should have been dead at the end of that!” Those were comedian Marc Maron’s first words following the premiere of the feature documentary about him, “Are We Good?,” at the SXSW Film & TV Festival on Tuesday.

The film, directed by Steven Feinartz, covers the full breadth of Maron’s career, from his start in the 1980s as a cocaine-fueled acolyte of stand-up Sam Kinison through the rapid success of his comedy podcast “WTF.” “I thought, it’s amazing this guy still alive,” Maron joked as he took to the stage of the ZACH Theater in Austin following the premiere. “Because usually that’s a movie about a guy that died already.” Death was understandably on Maron’s mind: The majority of “Are We Good?” focuses on how he’s processed his grief after his girlfriend, filmmaker Lynn Shelton, died suddenly of an undiagnosed blood disease in May 2020.

Picking up a year later, Feinartz shadows an often irascible Maron as he attempts to piece together a stand-up routine about Shelton’s death, leading up to his acclaimed 2023 HBO special “From Bleak to Dark” (which Feinartz also directed).

Maron could be a reluctant subject, at times berating Feinartz off camera for relentlessly filming him over multiple years. Mostly, though, he is as candid and self-revealing in “Are We Good?” as he is on “WTF” — a quality on ample display during the Q&A.