Director Alex Gibney, left, interviews David Chase in “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos.”
“Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos,” a two-part documentary about the groundbreaking TV series and its creator, will debut on HBO on Sept. 7 and begin streaming on Max that day. You can watch its trailer, below.
Alex Gibney, an Oscar winner in the Documentary Feature category for “Taxi to the Dark Side” in 2007, directs.
Stephen Whitty wrote about the film’s premiere at The Tribeca Film Festival in New York, in June, for NJArts.net.
The film, Whitty wrote, “goes beyond a simple compilation of the show’s greatest hits (and greatest ‘hits’) or even a fan-friendly compilation of backstage jokes and bloopers. Instead, it explores tougher territory — how much of the show was really about Chase’s own relationship with an angry and demanding mother, how close at times he — and his star, the late James Gandolfini — used Tony Soprano to explore their own dark urges.
“Immediately bringing home that point? Gibney conducts his feature-length, on-camera interview of Chase on a replica of Dr. Melfi’s office, probing his guilt and shame and memories almost as relentlessly as she picked at Tony’s.”
“The Sopranos” ran on HBO from 1999 to 2007 and can currently be streamed on Max.
Here is the trailer:
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