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IN THE BASEMENT.('Capturing the Friedmans')(Movie Review)
"Capturing the Friedmans,"an extraordinary new documentary directed by Andrew Jarecki, is both a meditation on perversion and truth and one of the most heartbreaking films ever made about an American family. Baldly stated, the facts at the center of the movie are these: in 1987, in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold Friedman, a retired schoolteacher in his fifties who taught computer classes for kids in his home basement, and his youngest son, Jesse, then eighteen, were arrested and charged with committing repeated acts of sexual abuse on boys who attended the classes. Despite its sensational subject, the picture has been made with tact, dedication, and respect for the unending ...
- The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood. (Book Reviews).
- Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television Bell, Vance January 1, 2002 700+ words
...he doesn't know, intellectually, what he is doing," Martha Nochimson states, paraphrasing an anecdote told to her by David Lynch during one of her meetings with the filmmaker. "I now see how hound up Lynch's vision of making meaning is with the...
- A Brakhage Festschrift.(Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker by David E. James)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Literature-Film Quarterly Welsh, Jim October 1, 2005 700+ words
David E. James, ed. Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2005...odd professors thrown into the mix, including the editor, USC professor David E. James, who wrote a serviceable Introduction. They all came to praise...
- Spectacular optics: the deployment of special effects in David Cronenberg's...
- Magazine article from: Film Criticism Hantke, Steffen December 22, 2004 700+ words
...plot is a fig leaf, like the well-brought-up young woman's first refusal (Mamet 120). This cantankerous statement by David Mamet seems to serve as a perfectly suitable description of horror film. It criticizes a specific cinematic aesthetic that...
- Video: artnet Auctions Launches Modern + Contemporary Sale featuring works by...
- Newspaper article from: Entertainment Newsweekly November 13, 2009 700+ words
...contemporary artists including John Chamberlain, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Anish Kapoor and Andy Warhol. Mezzomangle, 2007...brilliant sunset executed in watercolor and gouache on paper by David Hockney (estimate: $350,000-$450,000) and Orange...
- Trial and error in Friedman family.(LIFE - ENTERTAINMENT)(MOVIES)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 13, 2003 700+ words
...we discover. Arnold Friedman was destined to...element in Jesse and David the middle brother...one interpret Arnold Friedman's fleeting career...that straight? David and the filmmaker...regrettable fact that Arnold Friedman outed himself...
- `Friedman's' contradictions create a harrowing tale.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Butler, Robert W. August 2, 2003 700+ words
...things really escalated. Arnold Friedman and his youngest son...footage shot by son David Friedman (a third sibling...the documentary). David, now a successful party...trial hysteria? Was Arnold Friedman a true monster who preyed...
- `Capturing the Friedmans'.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) June 11, 2003 700+ words
...from the Netherlands. Arnold Friedman, a retired teacher...just at the hands of Arnold Friedman but also his youngest...sodomizing young boys. Arnold Friedman, who says he's innocent...the eye. Eldest son David, who works as a professional...
- Perla Ciuk / La tragedia de los Friedman.(Cultura)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) February 26, 2004 700+ words
...sus hijos, David, Seth y Jesse...perteneciente a Arnold Friedman, un respetable...de videos que David graba a partir...y alumnos de Arnold Friedman. Queda claro...47 Reparto: David Friedman, Arnold Friedman, Jesse Friedman...
