Though he is technically director and showrunner of “The Jinx,” there’s no denying that Andrew Jarecki is now also one of its characters.
While filming Season 1 of the smash hit HBO docuseries, Jarecki and collaborators Zac-Stuart Pointier and Marc Smerling stepped out from behind the camera when it became clear that they stumbled upon critical evidence incriminating documentary subject Robert Durst. They turned that evidence into law enforcement and elicited Durst’s hot mic showstopper: “Killed them all, of course.” Durst was indicted just days before the finale, creating an unprecedented cultural juggernaut.
As a result, “The Jinx – Part Two” becomes an extraordinary specimen, a piece of TV in which the show and its creators have become part of the unbelievable, sprawling narrative that starts and ends with Durst. In the first episode — titled “Chapter 7,” suggesting that “The Jinx” is not so much two seasons as twelve installments — Jarecki...
While filming Season 1 of the smash hit HBO docuseries, Jarecki and collaborators Zac-Stuart Pointier and Marc Smerling stepped out from behind the camera when it became clear that they stumbled upon critical evidence incriminating documentary subject Robert Durst. They turned that evidence into law enforcement and elicited Durst’s hot mic showstopper: “Killed them all, of course.” Durst was indicted just days before the finale, creating an unprecedented cultural juggernaut.
As a result, “The Jinx – Part Two” becomes an extraordinary specimen, a piece of TV in which the show and its creators have become part of the unbelievable, sprawling narrative that starts and ends with Durst. In the first episode — titled “Chapter 7,” suggesting that “The Jinx” is not so much two seasons as twelve installments — Jarecki...
- 4/21/2024
- by Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
(l-r) Robert Durst and Marc Smerling.
In 2010, director Andrew Jarecki and writer-producer Marc Smerling released All Good Things, a drama starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst that was loosely based on the story of Manhattan property heir Robert Durst, whose wife Kathie went missing in 1982.
Though poorly reviewed, the film caught the eye of Durst himself, who offered the filmmakers an interview..
That sit-down interrogation became the basis for The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, a six-part HBO series which premiered in Australia on Foxtel last May, and became watercooler fodder around the world.
Two of the show's creators are headed to Acmi for the Australian International Documentary Conference at the end of the month..
As well as founding New York's Hit the Ground Running Films with Jarecki, where he produced Capturing the Friedmans and Catfish, Smerling served as both producer and cinematographer on The Jinx..
He'll...
In 2010, director Andrew Jarecki and writer-producer Marc Smerling released All Good Things, a drama starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst that was loosely based on the story of Manhattan property heir Robert Durst, whose wife Kathie went missing in 1982.
Though poorly reviewed, the film caught the eye of Durst himself, who offered the filmmakers an interview..
That sit-down interrogation became the basis for The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, a six-part HBO series which premiered in Australia on Foxtel last May, and became watercooler fodder around the world.
Two of the show's creators are headed to Acmi for the Australian International Documentary Conference at the end of the month..
As well as founding New York's Hit the Ground Running Films with Jarecki, where he produced Capturing the Friedmans and Catfish, Smerling served as both producer and cinematographer on The Jinx..
He'll...
- 2/16/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
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