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Documentary Legend Frederick Wiseman Calls “BS” On Cinéma Vérité-Style Filmmaking, Reveals What Early Pauline Kael Praise Meant To Him
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman discusses his work as Film at Lincoln Center holds a five-week retrospective of his films.
Embedding himself in hospitals, schools, theater and dance groups, neighborhoods, and towns across the United States and occasionally Europe, he uncovers human drama, pathos, and psychological detail that escape the eye of the ordinary observer. To recognize this unparalleled body of nonfiction cinema, Film at Lincoln Center is honoring the director with a retrospective titled “Frederick Wiseman: An American Institution.” It got underway Friday with screenings of Wiseman’s first three documentaries: Titicut Folies(1967), High School(1968), and Law and Order(1969), and it concludes March 5 with screenings of Ballet(1995), Domestic Violence 1(2001), and Domestic Violence 2(2002). I made quite a few films [in recent years], none with the possible exception of State Legislature were they of the same kind of, for lack of a better term, “social subjects” like Welfare, Juvenile Court or Hospital.
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