Andrew Jarecki
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Wealth and The Game: Five Miscellaneous Observations on The Jinx
Like a lot of people, I’ve been hypnotized the past few weeks by Andrew Jarecki’s six-part HBO miniseries The Jinx. I’m not a TV writer, and I didn’t take notes while watching. These are five stand-alone observations in the interest of sharing in collective fascination with the series. NB: this is nothing but spoilers. 1. It’s completely germane that Andrew Jarecki (Princeton alum, father of a successful businessman, Moviefone co-founder) comes from money — his is surely the only family in America with the means to produce three documentary filmmaker siblings in the same generation. This privileged perspective has bitten […]
by Vadim Rizov on Mar 16, 2015 -
MAGNOLIA TO RELEASE JARECKI’S “ALL GOOD THINGS”
Announced today, Andrew Jarecki‘s long awaited narrative All Good Things, starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella, will be released through Magnolia Pictures in December. In the press release from Magnolia the story is described as a murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s. It’s inspired by true events of Robert Durst who was suspected of killing his wife who disappeared in 1982 but never tried. It’s considered the most notorious missing persons case in New York history. This will be Jarecki’s first foray into narrative features, his previous film […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Aug 24, 2010
