Showtime is exploring an infamous teenage couple who were convicted of murdering 11 people in the 1950s in the network’s latest docuseries. The 12th Victim is a four-part docuseries following the crimes of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.
Told through a stylistic blend of archival and recreated footage and countless film and television series inspired by the killings, the series reexamines Fugate’s guilty verdict, who was 14 years old at the time of the killings, through a modern lens, questioning the media and judicial system’s treatment of her despite her self-proclaimed innocence.
On Tuesday, Showtime released a trailer for the series and announced it will debut on February 17.
In 1958, a grisly string of murders terrified the Midwest, as 18-year-old Starkweather killed 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming with his girlfriend Fugate by his side. Fugate went on to become the youngest female in U.S. history to be tried...
Told through a stylistic blend of archival and recreated footage and countless film and television series inspired by the killings, the series reexamines Fugate’s guilty verdict, who was 14 years old at the time of the killings, through a modern lens, questioning the media and judicial system’s treatment of her despite her self-proclaimed innocence.
On Tuesday, Showtime released a trailer for the series and announced it will debut on February 17.
In 1958, a grisly string of murders terrified the Midwest, as 18-year-old Starkweather killed 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming with his girlfriend Fugate by his side. Fugate went on to become the youngest female in U.S. history to be tried...
- 1/24/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
Indiewire has an exclusive first look at the trailer for one of the latest non-fiction gems to come out of Doc NYC: "Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery." "Misfire" follows the tragic story of a group of Suny Purchase graduates who gained and then lost everything with New York film company The Shooting Gallery. The Shooting Gallery was at once a pioneer of the independent film scene and a '90s success story that delivered art-house classics such as "Sling Blade" and "You Can Count On Me." When financial mismanagement and greed got the best of the rising yet overly valued company, it fell apart and took with it the creative and professional dreams of a group of young graduate friends. The trailer to director Whitney Ransick's "Misfire" gives us a taste of the nostalgic journey that began with rapid financial success and ended in a...
- 11/14/2013
- by Ramzi De Coster
- Indiewire
The fourth annual Doc NYC running from November 14-21, will showcase 115 films and events, including screenings of 72 feature-length films, 39 shorts, and 20 doc-related panel discussions and master classes.
Here are four highlights from this year's gripping Doc NYC starting with Errol Morris's Opening Night Gala selection The Unknown Known profile on Us Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, onto Whitney Ransick's on target Misfire: The Rise And Fall Of The Shooting Gallery, through Chuck Workman's many answers to What Is Cinema?, ending with the Closing Night Gala screening of Michel Gondry's graphic Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky.
The Unknown Known
The Unknown Known: "I see the glow in your eyes," Rumsfeld comments to Errol Morris.
Errol Morris presents former Us Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the classic format. No illustrations illuminate us about what we don't know, or...
Here are four highlights from this year's gripping Doc NYC starting with Errol Morris's Opening Night Gala selection The Unknown Known profile on Us Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, onto Whitney Ransick's on target Misfire: The Rise And Fall Of The Shooting Gallery, through Chuck Workman's many answers to What Is Cinema?, ending with the Closing Night Gala screening of Michel Gondry's graphic Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky.
The Unknown Known
The Unknown Known: "I see the glow in your eyes," Rumsfeld comments to Errol Morris.
Errol Morris presents former Us Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the classic format. No illustrations illuminate us about what we don't know, or...
- 11/9/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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