Jon Alpert had been working on his documentary for so long, he had to transfer footage from videotape. Using a digital process known as “TerraNexing,” Alpert’s eighties and nineties footage was renewed on the 16:9 aspect ratio. What couldn’t be sanitized was the horror of the nation’s drug epidemic, which Alpert shows us in microcosm in “Life of Crime, 1984-2020,” now playing on HBO. Alpert ... more >
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THIRTY YEARS OF ADDICTION AND JAIL : “Life of Crime, 1984-2020”
Interview with film director Jon Alpert
Freddie Rodriguez, Robert Steffey and Deliris Vasquez