Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
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Joseph Berlinger (born October 30, 1961) is an American documentary filmmaker and producer. Particularly focused on true crime documentaries, Berlinger's films and docu-series draw attention to social justice issues in the US and abroad in such films as Brother's Keeper , Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills , Crude , Whitey ...
Joe Berlinger is an award-winning documentarian who has created landmark films such as PARADISE LOST, CRUDE, and EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL, AND VILE. He has also produced and directed several Netflix series on true crime, social justice, and environmental issues.
- January 1, 1
- Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- Sex and Outrageous Stories at HBO
- An Unexpected Brother-Hood
- Paradise Found
- Therapy Sessions with Metallica
- Killer Conversations For Netflix
- Bringing Conspiracy Theories Out of The Shadows
After graduating from Colgate University, Berlinger takes an advertising gig with Ogilvy & Mather, where he meets David and Albert Maysles, the doc pioneers behind films like Grey Gardens, and was “a student of their ethos,” he says. Later, as HBO experiments with reality programming, Berlinger joins up with his future partner. I got to know [then-...
Together, Berlinger and Sinofsky decide to buck the prevailing trend in documentaries. By the early 1990s, documentary had become a spoonful of castor oil: good for you but not tasty going down. The model had become looking at history through talking heads and archival footage. Ken Burns was — and is — the master of that format, but it was still fo...
With the case of the West Memphis Three, Berlinger finds a subject that would consume him for more than 18 years, resulting in three films — and an introduction to Metallica. Within a week of the arrests [of the West Memphis Three], we were shooting. We filmed from June 1993 until March 1994, after the second trial ended. We shot for more than 80 d...
Berlinger’s first foray into dramatic filmmaking, a 2000 sequel to The Blair Witch Project, fell flat, but Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, his behind-the-scenes account, returned to his doc roots and healed his relationship with Sinofsky, which had hit a crisis point. Cliff, Bruce and I had talked about a Metallica film, but it never materialized....
Berlinger finds a new outlet at Netflix with his Conversations With a Killer series that explored the psyches of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. Journalist Stephen Michaud had interviewed Ted Bundy on death row and published the book Ted Bundy: Conversations With a Killerin 1989. He reached out to me in 2016 and said, “I have all the...
For his current Peacock series, Shadowland, inspired by reporting in The Atlantic, Berlinger travels across the country to understand what fuels the conspiracy thinking dividing America. There are two perspectives to conspiracy theories, and only through understanding them can we address the issue at hand. It’s almost a cliché, but democracy is ver...
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Jul 2, 2024 · Joe Berlinger is a name synonymous with true crime documentary filmmaking. His unparalleled ability to delve into the darkest chapters of crime and social justice has made his work both compelling and crucial in contemporary media.
Joe Berlinger. Producer: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. Academy Award, eight-time Emmy nominated, and Peabody, DGA, and Sundance winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger has been a pioneering force in nonfiction filmmaking for over three decades.
Jun 5, 2024 · His worldview was shaped by “blaming other people for his misfortune and the rabid anti semitism that existed in Vienna at the time,” Joe Berlinger, director of Evil on Trial, tells TIME.
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Dec 28, 2021 · Director Joe Berlinger talks about his Netflix docuseries "Crime Scene" and how it explores how locations and social forces influence crime. He reveals how he used recreations, interviews and archival footage to tell the story of the Times Square Torso Ripper.
