If you’ve read William Friedkin’s 500-page autobiography, “The Friedkin Connection,” or the interviews he has done with The Criterion Collection, you know the veteran filmmaker is a raconteur of the highest order.
Many of those tales are repeated in the new documentary, “Leap of Faith,” a reverential look at the 85-year-old director’s classic, still-chilling, career-making horror, “The Exorcist.”Read More: The Best Horror Films Of 2020 (So Far)The material is mostly familiar, and Friedkin’s failures are spun in his favor.Continue reading ‘Leap of Faith’: A Reverential Look At William Friedkin’s ‘The Exorcist’ [Review] at The Playlist.
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