TV Guide: Bruce Sinofsky

Listing: Brother's Keeper

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:50:00 -0500

Sat Dec 13 11:50 AM IFC

Listing: Tony Hawk + Jon Favreau

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0500

Thu Dec 11 10:00 PM SUNDe Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk and actor-turned-director Jon Favreau ("Iron Man") get together to discuss their passions.

Listing: Stella McCartney + Ed Ruscha

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0500

Thu Dec 4 10:00 PM SUNDe British fashion designer Stella McCartney and American Pop artist Ed Ruscha discuss their work and passions.

Video: Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:22:49 -0500

Award-winning filmmakers Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger (of the Paradise Lost films on HBO) direct Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, a documentary about rock stars in therapy. After 20 years of heavy metal, a few members of Metallica decide to hire psychologist Phil Towle to work out some group tensions during the making of their album {^St. Anger}. Most of the therapy sessions involve drummer Lars Ulrich and singer/guitarist James Hetfield, with some input from guitarist Kirk Hammett. Also included are former band members Dave Mustaine of Megadeth and ex-bassist Jason Newsted. The band works through difficulties in group dynamics, personal demons, and relationship issues. The film shows recording sessions as well as therapy sessions, including the recruitment of bassist Robert Trujillo. The much-publicized controversies of Internet file-sharing and Hetfield's drug rehabilitation are also discussed. In 2003, Metallica released the album {^St. Anger} on Elektra Records. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster was sho

Video: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:17:13 -0500

Following their acclaimed documentary about a controversial death in a small town, Brother's Keeper, filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, explore another criminal case with even more complex strands. When the mutilated corpses of three eight-year-old boys are found near a wooded stream in West Memphis, AR, suspicion falls on a trio of young men, Jessie Miskelly Jr., Jason Baldwin, and Damian Wayne Echols. Stories that the men listened to hard rock music and fashioned themselves satanists fueled speculation of their involvement in the crime. Unlike Brother's Keeper, in which the citizens of the upstate New York town rallied to protect one of its own, an elderly man accused of killing one of his siblings, Paradise Lost portrays West Memphis as split on the question of guilt. Berlinger and Sinofsky offer equal time to both sides, but as this long and absorbing film rolls on, it becomes clear that they're skeptical of the prosecution's case, especially because it rests so heavily on an confession extracte

Video: Brother's Keeper

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:57:06 -0500

The first feature-length effort by documentary filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, Brother's Keeper unfolds a strange-but-true story about a most unorthodox family. 59-year-old Delbert Ward lives with his brothers Bill, Roscoe, and Lyman on a dairy farm near the upstate New York village of Munnville. Barely able to function on an adult level, the Ward brothers keep to themselves, ignored and shunned by their neighbors. When older brother Bill dies on June 5, 1990, the authorities determine that his death was not from natural causes. Suspected of a mercy killing, Delbert is charged with second degree murder. It gradually becomes apparent that the police coerced Delbert into signing a confession, whereupon his neighbors, who previously wanted nothing whatsoever to do with the man, begin lobbying passionately for his release. It's not that they believe that he's innocent, it's simply that he is one of theirs. Berlinger and Sinofsky firmly refuse to sugarcoat their subject; their glimpses of the Mann bro

Video: Paradise Lost

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:11:35 -0500

Video: Brother's Keeper

iTunes — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:18:31 -0500

On the morning of June 6, 1990, the village of Munnsville (pop. 499) was just another forgotten corner of rural America. But in the days and months that followed, this New York farming community would become the center of one of the most celebrated and bizarre murder trials in U.S. history. Brother's Keeper tells the story of the "Ward Boys," four eccentric brothers who shared the same dilapidated two-room shack for over 60 years. Living in isolation, without heat or running water, these elderly bachelors had virtually no contact with the outside world--until one was found dead in the bed he shared with his brother. By day's end, Delbert Ward "confessed" to suffocating his ailing brother as an act of mercy, but Munnsville believed Delbert had been framed. Was Delbert, an uneducated hermit with a low IQ, an innocent victim of police abuse? Was it a mercy killing--or was there another motive? From award-winning filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (Paradise Lost), Brother's Keeper is a real-life murder m