1. Frederick Wiseman | Biography, Films, & Facts - Britannica
Deciding to direct, produce, and edit his own films from then on, Wiseman soon afterward completed his first major film, Titicut Follies (1967), an ...
Frederick Wiseman, American filmmaker noted for his documentaries that examine the functioning of American institutions. His notable films included Titicut Follies (1967), Hospital (1970), Public Housing (1997), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), and City Hall (2020). Learn more about Wiseman’s life and career.
2. Films directed by Frederick Wiseman • Letterboxd
He started out in 1963 by producing a fictional feature film, The Cool World, an examination of the lives of Harlem teenagers. In the beginning, Wiseman was a ...
Films directed by Frederick Wiseman
3. Frederick Wiseman: 10 essential films | BFI
17 jul 2018 · Titicut Follies (1967) Wiseman's first feature film was almost his last when the Massachusetts Supreme Court moved for an injunction against ...
With his latest film, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library, currently in cinemas, we take a tour through the career of one of cinema’s greatest documentary makers.
4. Frederick Wiseman Goes Fictional for the First Time - IndieWire
22 aug 2022 · After nearly 60 years of non-fiction filmmaking, Wiseman tells IndieWire why he picked “A Couple” as his first fiction film.
Frederick Wiseman explains why he directed his first narrative feature "A Couple" at the age of 92.
5. Documentarian Frederick Wiseman Still Going Strong After Five Decade
30 aug 2023 · Since he began directing films — his first, Titicut Follies, was in 1967 at the relatively late age of 38 — Wiseman's been on the clock. He has ...
Since his debut in 1967, the influential filmmaker has dedicated his life to documenting the everyday world around him in his own patient, unblinking, highly humanistic style: ‘I’m interested in the different ways people try to help each other.’
6. Frederick Wiseman: the legendary filmmaker's best documentaries - Vox
3 mei 2018 · Titicut Follies (1967) Wiseman's first foray into filmmaking as a director was Titicut Follies, and it very well could have been his last. ...
Cardholders at thousands of public libraries across America can now stream the master filmmaker’s half-century of work for free.
7. FREDERICK WISEMAN FILM LIST - Le Cinéma Club
22 nov 2023 · SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS, Preston Sturges, 1941 · DUCK SOUP, Leo McCarey, 1933 · LE BONHEUR, Agnès Varda, 1965 · GRAND ILLUSION, Jean Renoir, 1937.
The master documentarian shares five films he considers to be the best of their kind.
8. Frederick Wiseman - The American Society of Cinematographers
The ASC taps groundbreaking documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman for its Award of Distinction. by David E. Williams Photos courtesy of Zipporah Films ...
The ASC taps groundbreaking documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman for its Award of Distinction.
9. Frederick Wiseman - Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville
Born in 1930 in Boston, Frederick Wiseman graduated in law in 1954 from Yale Law School. From his first documentary film, Titicut Follies in 1967, he ...
Born in 1930 in Boston, Frederick Wiseman graduated in law in 1954 from Yale Law School. From his first documentary film, Titicut Follies in 1967, he affirmed his basic principles: the absence of interviews, off-air commentary and additional music. Editing, which he carries out himself, is an important stage in the process of creating his films and generally lasts 12 months. In 1971, in order to guarantee creative independence, he created his own production and distribution company Zipporah Films. He thus produced 46 documentary films which compose a mosaic portrait of contemporary society, the United States, France and their institutions. A real awareness of politics runs through this essential work which can undoubtedly be considered as “a single, very long film which would last more than 100 hours”. Frederick Wiseman also directs two fiction films: The Last Letter in 2002 and A Couple in 2022; he also works for the theater. In Paris, he staged “La belle d’Amherst”, a play by William Luce on the life of Emily Dickinson and two plays at the Comédie Française: “Oh les beaux jours” by Samuel Beckett and “The last letter”, based on a chapter of Vassili Grossman’s novel, “Life and Destiny”. Frederick Wiseman has won numerous awards, including four Emmys, a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2014, and an Honorary Oscar from the Academy of American M...
10. An Introduction to Frederick Wiseman by Shawn Glinis - Bleeding Edge
11 mrt 2024 · ed from the first decade of Wiseman's career — particularly from the films Titicut Follies, High School, Law and Order, Hospital and Welfare — ...
See AlsoXmen Cbr ForumOur guest of honor for March 17th, Wiseman Podcast host Shawn Glinis, breaks down the great documentarian's process and how best to approach his body of work.
11. Frederick Wiseman's Biography - MONROVIA, INDIANA - PBS
Since 1967, Frederick Wiseman has directed 43 documentaries—dramatic, narrative films that seek to portray ordinary human experience in a wide variety of ...
Read a biography of documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
12. Filmmaker Biography: Frederick Wiseman - Sydney Film Festival
10 apr 2022 · Learn more about the life and career of the acclaimed veteran filmmaker at the centre of this year's first retrospective collection, ...
Learn more about the life and career of the acclaimed veteran filmmaker at the centre of this year's first retrospective collection, It Takes Time: Ten Films by Frederick Wiseman.
13. Frederick Wiseman - Dan David Prize
His first film, Titicut Follies (1967), remade the whole genre of nonfiction film, introducing path-breaking innovations such as the lack of a narrator, a spare ...
Frederick Wiseman is widely acclaimed as the most important person ever to lift a camera for documentary filmmaking. His first film, Titicut Follies (1967), remade the whole genre of nonfiction film…
14. Frederick Wiseman in Paradise | The New Yorker
1 dec 2023 · He has been making movies since 1967—forty-seven films in all, most of them about American institutions: a racetrack, a hospital, an evangelical ...
At ninety-three, the filmmaker has just released a new documentary about a French restaurant. In his work, institutions develop a soul, even an unconscious.
15. Titicut Follies | film by Wiseman [1967] - Britannica
…completed his first major film, Titicut Follies (1967), an unflinching look at the conditions inside a state hospital for the criminally insane. This and most ...
Other articles where Titicut Follies is discussed: cinéma vérité: 1960), Frederick Wiseman (Titicut Follies, 1967), Donn Pennebaker (Monterey Pop, 1968), and the Maysles brothers (Salesman, 1969).
16. Frederick Wiseman - Journal - Metrograph
Yet 50 years and 43 movies ago, Wiseman was just a 36-year-old Boston-based law professor with minimal experience in film—documentary or otherwise. So how in ...
Frederick Wiseman talks about the evolution of his 50-plus-year career.
17. Frederick Wiseman | Encyclopedia.com
(b. 1 January 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts), influential filmmaker who used a "direct cinema" style to produce often controversial documentaries about the ...
WISEMAN, FrederickNationality: American. Born: Boston, 1 January 1930. Education: Williams College, B.A., 1951; Yale Law School, L.L.B., 1954; Harvard University [1]. Family: Married Zipporah Batshaw, 29 May 1955, two sons. Military Service: Served in U.S. Army, 1954–56.
18. An Interview With Frederick Wiseman - Filmmaker Magazine
10 jan 2012 · Tomorrow night Wiseman is receiving the Legacy Award at the annual Cinema Eye Honors for his debut film Titicut Follies, which observed the ...
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19. Frederick Wiseman: 'I'm not a fly on the wall. I'm at least 2% conscious'
6 jul 2018 · By a stroke of good fortune, his career change coincided with technical innovations that made it possible to film synchronous sound on 16mm film ...
From his debut film about the ‘criminally insane’ to his latest on New York’s public library, the award-winning octogenarian is as committed to fighting injustice as ever – especially in the era of Trump