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Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki examines the complicated life of reclusive real estate scion, Robert Durst, the key suspect in a series of unsolved crimes.Directed by Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans)
Anyone else watching this?
Gonna start it ASAP as I'm now a proud HBOGO account holder and Capturing The Friedmans is beyond great.
This was in the news today:
Robert Durst arrested in New Orleans (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/infamous-murder-suspect-robert-durst-arrested-new-orleans-n323766)
I upgraded to HBO today so that I could start watching this. Capturing the Friedmans is one of my favorites.
and it's like wildly appropriate that the capturing the friedmans director made this, having read about robert durst today. that's quite a pickle of a life. butso the thing i wanna know is, who's gone back to watch the movie? never seen it, now is the time to get me to
reminder:
jarecki directed it, based on the durst story, ryan gosling is durst, the dp was michael seresin (birdy, foxes, etc)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1175709/
I remember seeing All Good Things and thinking and probably even commenting here that the story was just too weird for a feature and it would be better served as doc. Now both Durst and Jarecki grant my wish. The Jinx was riveting in the best possible way. And Durst is an infinitely more sympathetic and strangely interesting character than anything ryan gosling could have done.
I loved the way the whole thing is structured, from the basically biographic to the filmmaker's involvement taking central stage by the end.
One thing I did not like is how they stole the concept intro from True Detective...that was kind of lame. Everything else, incredible.
oh :/ chill on the series
Yeah this was pretty amazing television by the end. If you haven't read all the news about it yet, you should probably go watch it all.
Quote from: Alexandro on March 17, 2015, 12:41:54 AM
One thing I did not like is how they stole the concept intro from True Detective...that was kind of lame. Everything else, incredible.
that's HBO standard isn't it? Deadwood had that sort of opening a decade ago...
I watched the first 5 episodes in a row last night. It'd have to fuck up pretty badly in its final hour for it not to be my favourite true crime doc i've ever seen.
Durst's eyes look like bottomless pits.
Easily one of the best things i've ever seen. So captivated by this and what Jerecki was able to pull out of it.
I don't think i've ever felt so harrowed by an interview with a murderer before. I felt less creeped out by the talking head Nazi leaders in World at War.
You're seeing him in his element, he's still in the act really, you can see the thrill he gets from so casually accepting why people could accuse him of these things. "Sure! i can see why they'd think that, because [...tells the truth]". Seeing this guy get a buzz from skirting so close to the line of the truth after so much natural bullshit. He feels untouchable. Who can blame him after that Texas trial? He almost seems bored of his freedom and just wants to push it, like when he mills around the porch of his estranged brother's flat (that sequence is kind of hilarious in a really grisly, dark fashion btw. Sipping his Orange Julius. lol.)
Watching his body language fail to comply with his firm, unflappable denial when confronted with the envelope was just...one of the most fascinating things i've ever seen. He's never been in that vulnerable and tight a spot before, no lawyers, no spin, no rehearsal. His central nervous system can't deal with that lack of control.
Do you think he knew the mic was on in the bathroom? It'd happened once before, and he's a smart cookie. Could be a desperate attempt to sound crazy to try for an insanity plea in the future. Chilling as fuck regardless.
cannot stop thinking about this.
no way he knew.
Just finished this. Good god. I spent the entirety of the last episode purely in empathy for how freaked out Jarecki must have been going into that final interview. This is a man who has historically responded to being cornered by murdering people, so sitting next to him while you present him with ironclad evidence of his guilt has got to be bad for the blood pressure.
Oh, and fuck Texas forever. If that Galveston jury had been at Nuremberg, Josef Mengele would have ended up U.S. Surgeon General.
Blu-ray (http://www.amazon.com/The-Jinx-The-Life-and-Deaths-of-Robert-Durst-Blu-ray/dp/B00UIKAW3W?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00UIKAW3W&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER) on June 7, 2015
Robert Durst will return to L.A. to face murder charge in the summer - The Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-will-face-murder-trial-in-l-a-next-summer-20151222-story.html)
Third time's a charm?
'The Jinx's Robert Durst Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison On Gun Charge
via Deadline
A federal judge in New Orleans has formally sentenced real estate magnate Robert Durst to 85 months in prison, followed by three years' supervised release, for weapons possession.
U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt today approved the sentence that was agreed to as part of a plea deal reached in February on the felony charge. Durst, whose long-suspected involvement in several murders chronicled in HBO's documentary The Jinx led to his arrest, also was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and $100 special assessment.
But the legal saga is not over for Durst, who still faces a murder charge in Los Angeles for the killing of Susan Berman. Durst has insisted he's innocent.
A loaded .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver was found in March 2015 during a lawful search of Durst's New Orleans hotel room after an arrest warrant was issued for the Berman killing. Having previously been convicted of multiple felonies, Durst was indicted in the Eastern District of Louisiana on April 10, 2015, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
I hope Andrew Jarecki has a good bodyguard.
Robert Durst says he was on meth during the filming of The Jinx
http://www.avclub.com/article/robert-durst-says-he-was-meth-during-filming-jinx-247641
Robert Durst—the millionaire former fugitive who's currently on trial for one of several murders he's been linked to over the course of his life—has said he was on methamphetamine during the filming of The Jinx, the hit HBO docu-series that brought him to national attention. "I was on meth, I was on meth the whole time...it should have been obvious," Durst said in a 2015 interview with prosecutors, the transcript of which was filed in a Los Angeles court yesterday. "I think the reason I did it had to be because I was swooped, speeding." (Durst's lawyers have previously said that he was "tricked" into doing the show.)
Along with Serial, The Jinx helped kick off pop culture's current wave of true-crime obsession. The series' pivotal moment comes in its final episode, when Durst is caught muttering into a hot microphone, "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course." Durst was arrested for murder the day before that episode aired, but has since plead not guilty, presumably on the grounds that "Killed them all, of course" is just the "Have a nice day, friend!" of meth users everywhere.
Witness distances herself from strong testimony she previously gave against Durst in murder case - Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robert-durst-murder-case-20170727-story.html)QuoteThe witness also testified that Durst told her he liked the movie "All Good Things," in which actor Ryan Gosling plays a fictionalized version of Durst. The film character is strongly implicated in the murders of three people and a dog. Asked by Lewin if Durst ever complained about inaccuracies in the film, Altman said the depiction of his treatment of the dog upset him.
"Is there any way he'd ever kill a dog?" the prosecutor asked.
"No," Altman said.
I watched 'All Good Things' and it's a bit of a slog after 'The Jinx' but still worth seeing. I just didn't understand what the bloody blue cloth Kirsten Dunst is handing to Ryan Gosling in her last scene is supposed to mean so I have to watch it again.