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- Unless you were lucky enough to catch a retrospective at a repertory theater or museum, you’d have to buy the movies directly from Wiseman’s production company and watch them on DVD — and for all but passionate cinephiles, that can prove to be an insurmountable hurdle.
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May 3, 2018 · Unless you were lucky enough to catch a retrospective at a repertory theater or museum, you’d have to buy the movies directly from Wiseman’s production company and watch them on DVD — and...
Apr 16, 2018 · As of this afternoon, a whopping 40 of Wiseman’s movies—nearly everything he’s every directed—are available via the streaming service Kanopy, which can be accessed through many public ...
Nov 20, 2008 · DVD Talk - The films of Frederick Wiseman, now available on DVD - Although the first wave of self-released DVD-Rs from documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman became available at the beginning of this year, I don't believe there has been a thread devoted to them.
- Titicut Follies (1967) Wiseman’s first feature film was almost his last when the Massachusetts Supreme Court moved for an injunction against its release.
- Essene (1972) In contrast to the oppressive rigour of Wiseman’s earlier subjects – including High School (1968) and Basic Training (1971) – this investigation into an organised social structure is tender and serene, revolving around the activities of a Benedictine monastery.
- Primate (1974) Among Wiseman’s funniest films – “a riot,” he deadpanned – Primate is also one of his most chilling. At the Yerkes Primate Research Centre, Wiseman fixes his camera behind rows of chain-link fencing, stuck at a hopeless impasse between the humans’ total lack of empathy and monkeys stripped of their agency.
- Welfare (1975) Strung out between Five Easy Pieces (1970) and The Driller Killer (1979), Welfare is one of the great movies of American existentialism – a Sisyphean dispatch from the broken frontier.
Nov 25, 2023 · Wiseman’s curiosity remained inexhaustible as the years and topics went by: a Dallas department store (The Store, 1983), the making of a fashion and advertising model (Model, 1980), end-of-life ...
Feb 8, 2024 · BOSTON, MA; Feb. 6, 2024 – Legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s latest film, MENUS-PLAISIRS - LES TROISGROS, is guaranteed to please fans of documentaries, food, family sagas, and travel. The film will premiere March 22 at 9 p.m. ET ( check local listings) on PBS, PBS.org, and the PBS App, with the film available for early ...
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