Prince is the subject of a new film from one of the greatest living documentarians, but it might never come out and almost no one’s seen it. We talk to someone who did: editor and writer Sasha Weiss. Meanwhile, the rise in pop star docs can be a good hang for fans, but when a film is a glorified press release, we miss out on a lot, says journalist Matthew Belloni. This episode was produced by Zachary Mack and Miles Bryan, edited by Lissa Soep, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Prince performs during Super Bowl XLI in 2007. Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage. Check out his guitair solo during a performance of "While My Guitar Genty Weeps" at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004: Director's Cut: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison - YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Martha Stewart is out publicizing her new Netflix documentary in the most hilarious way.
Are you happy with the documentary and how it turned out?
Yeah, the documentary is fine.
It's left out a lot.
So I'm gonna go talk to them about maybe doing version two.
Yeah, by telling Jimmy Fallon, among others, that she low key hates it.
I don't like going to psychiatrists and talking about your feelings and all of that stuff.
And the director was so intense on delving powerful people.
People like to control their images and more and more often celebrity documentaries allow them to do that.
The Martha doc didn't, and neither did a new and very mysterious documentary about Prince that, for reasons we're going to explain, you may never get to see.
That's coming up.
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