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Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director. His work is primarily about exploring American institutions. [1] In 2017, The New York Times called him "one of the most important and original filmmakers working today". [2]
Jul 17, 2018 · Frederick Wiseman: 10 essential films. By Michael Ewins. Lists. 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. 17 July 2018.
Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American filmmaker noted for his documentaries that examine the functioning of American institutions. Wiseman was educated at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts (B.A., 1951), and at Yale Law School (L.L.B., 1954.).
Nov 25, 2023 · Documentarist Frederick Wiseman — 44 films in and still on the clock. The 93-year-old has never lost his appetite for recording the lives and toils of ordinary people. Now he’s ready for lunch....
May 3, 2018 · Frederick Wiseman is a legend among filmmakers, a documentarian who’s been chronicling American life and institutions with a keen eye.
Frederick Wiseman. Director: National Gallery. Born in 1930, Wiseman is a Cambridge, Massachusetts resident and member of the Massachusetts Bar Association who turned to filmmaking in 1967, after years as an instructor and/or researcher at Boston University, Brandeis University, and Harvard.
Dec 6, 2023 · Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros, the new documentary from the masterful and prolific Frederick Wiseman, offers something of an antidotes to these tropes. Wiseman’s 44th documentary follows the inner workings at Le Bois Sans Feuilles, a family-owned restaurant in Ouches, a pastoral region of Central France, that has boasted three Michelin ...
Dec 1, 2023 · Culture Desk. Frederick Wiseman in Paradise. At ninety-three, the filmmaker has just released a new documentary about a French restaurant. In his work, institutions develop a soul, even an...
Oct 29, 2018 · Frederick Wiseman on Censorship, Small-Town America, and Why He Dislikes the Word “Documentary” By Richard Brody. October 29, 2018. The legendary filmmaker talks about why his latest film,...
Frederick Wiseman is probably one of today's greatest living documentary filmmakers. For close to thirty years, thanks to the Public Broadcast Service (PBS), he has created an exceptional body of work consisting of thirty full length films devoted primarily to exploring American institutions.
