Sundance and the Oscars : Which films from the festival could follow “CODA” to the 2024 Academy Awards.An Andrea Riseborough FAQ : Confused about the brouhaha surrounding the best actress nominee? We explain why her nod was controversial.The Tom Cruise Factor : Stars were starstruck when the “Top Gun: Maverick” headliner showed up at the Oscar nominees luncheon.Kyle Buchanan is covering the films, personalities and events along the way. The Projectionist Chronicles the Awards Season The Oscars aren’t until March, but the campaigns have begun. Berlinger’s legal saga began in 2010, when he opposed Chevron’s request to subpoena hundreds of hours of his raw footage from “Crude,” which followed the Ecuadoreans who had sued Texaco (now owned by Chevron), saying that their water was contaminated by an oil field the company operated.Ĭhevron, which was later ordered by an Ecuadorean court to pay as much as $18 billion in damages, a penalty it continues to fight, argued that the footage could bolster its case in that lawsuit and in international treaty arbitration. Berlinger, a persistent, sometimes pugnacious man of 50, said in an interview, the experience left him feeling like he had been “whacked over the head with a two-by-four, financially, emotionally, philosophically, questioning whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that I made ‘Crude.’ ”Īnd when a director is left to wonder if he should not have made a film at all, he said, it “goes to the core of who you are.” His battle over “Crude,” about an environmental disaster in Ecuador and a lawsuit against the Chevron Corporation, has largely concluded.
Berlinger’s life almost exactly a year earlier, as he sat in the kitchen of his home in Westchester County, writing checks to pay the substantial legal fees he incurred in a fight over his 2009 documentary “Crude” and wondering if his reputation as a director and journalist had been permanently tarnished. It was also a bittersweet bookend to a day in Mr.
evoked many emotions, including a sense of satisfaction that his films had helped keep their plight in the public eye and a mild anxiety that the latest installment, “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory” (which HBO will broadcast on Thursday), was now mistitled. 19 proceeding that freed Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr.
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WHEN the Arkansas men known as the West Memphis Three were released from prison this summer, it was a momentous occasion not only for those convicts, who had each spent nearly 20 years behind bars for murders they say they did not commit, but also for the people who had followed their case and become convinced of their innocence.Īmong the observers in the Jonesboro, Ark., courtroom that day was the filmmaker Joe Berlinger, who, with a directing partner, Bruce Sinofsky, has chronicled the saga in a series of documentaries called “Paradise Lost.”įor Mr.
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