Friedkin Uncut

Friedkin is an engaging raconteur, even (or especially) when he's rambling through half-formed thoughts...

Always a good show, even when the subject is saying things so wild or silly that they make the viewer's eyes roll like tires tumbling down a steep mountainside in Friedkin's jungle thriller Sorcerer.

For all his career ups and downs, he has remained devoted to making genuinely challenging and exciting work, and has succeeded more often than not. The documentary serves as a strong incitement to dig into it.

This enjoyable doc records a Hollywood master looking back at his career with lucid hindsight and irony.

Unfortunately, Francesco Zippel's fawning, cookie-cutter tribute is nothing more than an add-on for a DVD box set, were they still making those.

At best, Friedkin Uncut is a serviceable EPK on whatever Friedkin film is set to get yet another Blu-ray release. Flat, lifeless, superficial. Just a slog.

The documentary's unskilled neophyte director Francesco Zippel is no Friedkin, but his subject makes this an important part of film history.

[Friedkin] curses all the way through this movie and it's indicative of his filmmaking style -- which was "I don't care, I'm making it my way."

This is a documentary any serious film buff needs to see.

Charmingly artless appreciation of one of the great directors of the '70s, who is in fine, funny form as he's interviewed here.