Erin Lee Carr’s Criminal Mind

Erin Lee Carr has made a career in crime. When I arrive at Vidiots, the DVD rental store, hangout, and art-house cinema in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, I find her thumbing through O.J: Made in America, Hoop Dreams, West of Memphis, and Capturing the Friedmans and The Jinx, both by Andrew Jarecki. “He tries not to take sides so the audience has to decide what they think happened,” she tells me. “So that shows up in a lot of my work.”

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