"As Errol Morris once quipped of the Boston-born, Jewish-raised Frederick Wiseman: 'Fred likes institutions like Fellini likes the circus.' In his half-century career as a documentary maker, Wiseman has tirelessly charted American institutions and communities, with a style that’s often reductively described as flat, fly-on-the-wall vérité. As a result, compared to more famous auteurs, Wiseman gets short shrift as an ‘invisible’ presence behind the camera – or he’s mischaracterised as a dry descendent of the 60s Direct Cinema documentary movement. Yet the man himself has always argued that his often lengthy movies are more novelistic than journalistic, and indeed, several of his films have been transcribed and republished as screenplays. ... Here are 10 of the best places to start. ..."
BFI (Video)
W - Frederick Wiseman
Zipporah Films (Video)
LA Times: Frederick Wiseman's first decade of docs kicks off a vital retrospective
In Jackson Heights (2015)
2017 August: National Gallery (2014), 2017 September: Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2015), 2018 April: In Jackson Heights (2015)
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