New Delhi, Oct. 17 -- access for filmmakers, resistance for the journalist investigating whether the company's medical claims were true.

In an October 17 essay for The New York Times, Carreyrou described feeling envious at an advance screening because directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim had received access Holmes denied him a decade earlier. He was then reporting for The Wall Street Journal.

The Nathan Fielder documentary approaches a subject whose legal case has already produced a verdict. Its arrival raises a different question: what intimate access can explain about a person without displacing the evidence of what that person did.

Carreyrou recalled seeking an interview after concluding that Theranos could not deliver its a...