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.