The Jinx - The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015) HBO 6 Part Series - HD

The Jinx - The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015) HBO Special





The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, generally promoted and referred to as simply The Jinx, is a 2015 HBO documentary miniseries about Robert Durst, written by Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, and Zachary Stuart-Pontier. The series was also directed by Jarecki, who previously directed All Good Things (2010), which was inspired by the life of Durst.

The series investigates the unsolved 1982 disappearance of Durst's wife Kathie, the 2000 execution-style killing of his friend Susan Berman, and the 2001 death and dismemberment of his Galveston, Texas neighbor Morris Black. It uses a wide array of existing footage including news, security footage, police evidence, and archival interviews combined with footage shot by Jarecki, which is composed of contemporary interviews, visual reenactments, and self-reflexive footage of Jarecki's film-making process and peculiar working relationship with Durst. Its complex editing style and narrative construction emphasize the contradictions within both Durst's life and the bizarre and grisly murders he allegedly committed.

The Jinx gained widespread exposure when Durst was arrested on first degree murder charges the day before its finale aired.

Reference:

http://www.hbo.com/the-jinx-the-life-and-deaths-of-robert-durst

Average File Stats per episode:

Format: Matroska
File size: 765 MB
Duration: 37mn 58s
Bit rate: 2 376 Kbps
Width: 1 280 pixels
Height: 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 23.976 fps


Chapter 1, "A Body in the Bay," premiered on February 8, 2015.
Chapter 2, "Poor Little Rich Boy," premiered on February 15.
Chapter 3, "The Gangster's Daughter," premiered on February 22.
Chapter 4, "The State of Texas vs. Robert Durst," premiered on March 1.
Chapter 5, "Family Values," premiered on March 8.
Chapter 6, "The Second Interview," premiered on March 15.


Update:

On March 14, 2015, the eve of the final episode's airing, Durst was arrested in New Orleans by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on a first degree murder warrant issued by the LAPD in connection to the 2000 death of Susan Berman, as the result of an investigation stemming from new evidence presented in the miniseries.

According to The New York Times, the filmmakers sought legal advice on when to share new evidence with law enforcement, weighing journalistic privilege against possible claims of evidentiary inadmissibility in a future trial.