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Andrew Jarecki Reflects On 'Capturing the Friedmans' and Why It Needs a Sequel

9 April 2012 8:27 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

In 2003, Andrew Jarecki's "Capturing the Friedmans" quickly became a landmark achievement in the history of non-fiction film, snatching up a Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, generating massive buzz and heated controversy in the wake of its release, and eventually landing an Oscar nomination. The filmmaker's dark investigation into the pedophilia charges against the late Great Neck resident Arnold Friedman and his teenage son Jesse, partially told through the family's uncomfortably intimate home movies from the '80s, capturing the dissolution of an American family in extraordinary detail. It also hinted at the possibility of injustices surrounding some of the charges leveled against the family. Most critics loved it; nobody was sure how to feel about its troubled subjects.     Nearly a decade later, "Capturing the Friedmans" is now available online, free for the month of April, via Indiewire parent company SnagFilms. »

- Eric Kohn

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'Bully' will open with a wave of publicity, but what are the box-office prospects for an unrated doc?

29 March 2012 5:45 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »

Releasing a theatrical film without an MPAA rating is a challenge, to say the least. Many major theatrical chains will not screen unsanctioned films, so it was a shock to many when The Weinstein Company elected to release Bully, its heartwrenching and critically lauded documentary about the timely issue of teen bullying, as an unrated film rather than submit to the MPAA’s R rating. TWC argued that the R rating — presumably applied for the film’s repeated profanity — would exclude the very audience that most needed to see this documentary — high-school teens. Their end-around, buttressed by a national online campaign and celebrity support, »

- Jeff Labrecque

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How ‘Arbitrage’ Director Found the Perfect Mansion for His Movie

27 January 2012 3:32 PM, PST | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »

Getty Images From left, actor Nate Parker, director Nicholas Jarecki, and actor Richard Gere attend “Arbitrage” Dinner and After-Party at Grey Goose Blue Door on January 21, 2012 in Park City, Utah.

As director Nicholas Jarecki scouted locations for his new film “Arbitrage,” about an imperiled hedge-fund manager, he “began to think about the twenty-thousand square foot townhouses in his native New York City,” according to promotional materials for the movie, which landed a healthy distribution deal at the Sundance Film Festival this week. »

- Erica Orden

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Sundance 2012: The Imposter – review

25 January 2012 4:33 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

This documentary begins in mystery and ends in horror – a disturbing vision of the lengths we go to, to fool ourselves

Bizarre true-life stories, in documentary or feature form, have long been a staple of the Sundance film festival – increasingly so since the breakout debut of Andrew Jarecki's startling Capturing the Friedmans in 2003. This year, the shock ticket looked to be Craig Zobel's dramatised piece Compliance, in which the staff of a smalltown fast-food joint are pranked into astoundingly serious sexual misconduct. But while it never strays into such lurid territory, Bart Layton's documentary The Imposter eclipses it with a story that is really two in one: starting as a macabre Patricia Highsmith-like Ripley story and ending as a full-blown American gothic horror.

It begins in 1994, when 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay goes missing from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three years later, a boy answering to a similar, »

- Damon Wise

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Favorite Film Festival Event 2011: Meet The Makers With Steve James

5 January 2012 10:24 PM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

One of the best things about the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, which took place November 16th–27th, is how community-inclusive the fest is, with most activities, from interactive exhibitions to informal master classes, open to the public free of charge. (Indeed, it’s possible to get your cinephile fix on a daily basis without ever buying a movie ticket.) And one of this year’s truly informative events was a Meet the Makers discussion at the Escape Club on Rembrandtplein hosted by Canadian documentarian Peter Wintonick. Idfa guest Steve James, who was honored with a retrospective, was there that Saturday morning to shed light on his diverse selections for this edition’s Top 10 – showing a clip from one of his choices followed by a scene from one of his own films that that particular documentary had influenced.

A sequence from Chris Smith’s American Movie led to another from Reel Paradise, »

- Lauren Wissot

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