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Question Everything

The masterpiece Prince documentary Netflix won’t let the public see.

Question Everything

Brian Reed

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.6707 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The best documentary filmmaker in America spent nearly five years of his life making a nine-hour masterpiece for Netflix. 

 

It will never see the light of day. 

 

After a nasty estate battle, the series will not be released. No one will ever see it.

 

In his first sit-down interview about this catastrophe, the filmmaker, Ezra Edelman seeks catharsis – if not closure – in the fight for truth and control over the life story of one of the biggest control freaks ever. 

 

Thanks to “Pablo Torre Finds Out” for sharing this interview with us. 

 

“Question Everything” is a production of KCRW and Placement Theory.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all. This is Question Everything. I'm Brian Reed. Today, I want to share an interview with you that I just loved.

0:06.2

We might do this once in a while here, a staff picks kind of thing. I heard this interview on a podcast called Pablo Torre finds out.

0:13.8

And I'm going to say very little about it because you're about to hear everything you need to know. But just the basics.

0:18.2

It's an interview the host of the show, Pablo Torre, did with an incredible

0:21.9

documentary filmmaker who made a doc series for Netflix about one of the best artists ever.

0:28.7

I get the sense it might have been this filmmaker's magnum opus. But I'll never know,

0:33.3

because the estate of that artist killed the project, made sure it would never see the light of day,

0:39.1

even though the filmmaker, reportedly at least, had editorial control.

0:44.1

Picture an interview with a director on a press tour for a series he's devoted years to

0:48.6

that's supposed to be amazing, except in this case, the series will never be released. No one, not you, not me,

0:57.5

will ever see it. Anyway, here's the interview. Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo

1:06.2

Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. I'm like, this is a gift.

1:13.1

A nine-hour treatment about an artist that, like, it was, by the way,

1:17.4

fucking brilliant.

1:19.1

Everything about who you believe he is is in this movie.

1:22.0

You get to bathe in his genius.

1:23.8

Yeah.

1:24.4

And yet you also have to confront his humanity.

1:27.2

Right after this ad.

1:33.2

Are we starting now?

1:34.2

Of course.

1:35.0

Of course.

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