Crime Film
Documentaries
| fall | 2018|
James R. Elkins
"Capturing the Friedmans"
(2003)
[1 hr. 47 mins.]
[film by Andrew Jarecki]
"A family in crisis is 'captured' through real home video. The
Friedmans, an average upper-middle-
class Jewish family in Great Neck, NY, found their world turned upside
down when the father and
son were charged with child molestation in 1987. The media inundated
the airwaves with coverage
of the alleged crime, but some of the best footage was shot by the family
themselves—seen
publicly for the first time in this documentary." ~ Netflix
Wikipedia
Internet Movie Database
Rotten Tomatoes
Preview
 The
DVD: "Capturing the Friedmans" is a 2 disc set. The
second disk contains a Charlie Rose
interview of director Andrew Jarecki and film footage that was not included
in the film. The disc also
contains miscellanous legal documents.
Readings
Susan A. Bandes, The Lessons of Capturing the Friedmans:
Moral Panic, Institutional
Denial, and Due Process (published in Law, Culture, & Humanities)
[on-line
pre-publication draft]
Gavin de Becker & Emily Horowitz, "Destruction
of Innocence--The Friedman Case: How Coerced
Testimony & Confessions Harm Children, Families & Communities
for Decades After the Wrongful
Convictions Occur" (2013) [SSRN]
The Film
Jesse Friedman's Web
Site
[Jesse Friedman's website provides
access to legal documents in Friedman's case and his efforts to have
his
guilty plea and conviction overturned. He continues to seek exoneration.]
Exonerating
the Friedmans
Peter
Merholz: Blog Entry
Deconstructing
the Myths: Capturing the Friedmans
Capturing
the Friedmans: Annotated Bibliography
[most of the links to news accounts on this webpage
are inoperable]
Capturing
the Friedmans: Weblog
The Film & the Case: Videos
The
Jesse Friedman Case
[42:56 mins.] [February 21, 2012, presentation at St.
Francis College; Jesse Friedman tells the story about his case, beginning
of
the video to 5:39 mins. when Ron Kuby begins his presentation] [for
in class viewing skip 11:35 mins. to 14:46 when [Jesse
Friedman resumes his presenation; Ron Kuby takes over again at 20:30
mins. (talking about Judge Abbey Boklan and her
posture in the case, and the "situation" with other mass hysteria
sex-abuse cases of the time) and then he and Friedman jointly
present until the end of the video.]
Jesse
Friedman & Ron Kuby Explain Jesse's Innocence
[44:26 mins.]
What
Was Left Out? A Critique of "Capturing the Friedmans"
[10:00 mins.]
Jessie Friedman Case Update: Video and News Accounts
2013
Update of the Case and the Release of the Nassau County DA's Report
[video :: 15:31 mins.] [CBS News]
Jesse
Friedman Interview
[Village Voice blog, May 30, 2013]
Fighting
the Molestation Charges
[November 2, 2014, Huffington Post]
Jesse
Friedman's Case and the Appearance of Impropriety
[January 8, 2015, Huffington Post]
NY
Times:
Opinion Pages
[February 9, 2015; updating legal proceedings following
release of the Nasau County DA's report]
Legal Proceedings
Friedman v. Rehal, 618 F.3d 142 (2010) [online
text]
Conviction
Integrity Review: People v. Jesse Friedman
[a report commissioned by Kathleen M. Rice, Nannau County District
Attorney, dated June 2013]
"Capturing the Friedmans" :: Reviews:
Roger
Ebert  Austin
Chronicle Dan
Schneider
Joel Bocko USA
Today Christian
Science Monitor
San
Francisco Chronicle
Slate
The Guardian
World
Socialist Matt
Morris Eric
D. Snider DVD
Talk Entertainment
Weekly
Slant
Magazine The
Film Yap
Odd Todd
Reeling
Reviews
Misc.:
Secret History: Kinsey's Paedophiles :: [video:
9:49 mins.][Yorkshire Television production for Channel 4, produced
and directed by Tim Tate, aired August 10, 1998] :: Part2
[video: 9:46mins] :: Part3
[video: 10:10 mins.] ::
Part4 [video:
8:12 mins.] :: Part5
[video: 6:58 mins.]
:: Part6 [video:
6:32 mins.]
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