Frederick Wiseman — Director (22)
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Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros (2023) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
director: Frederick Wiseman actor: Frederick Wiseman / Jean-Pierre Troisgros …
other title: Menu plaisirs
Founded in 1930, the Troisgros family restaurant has been holding 3 Michelin stars for 55 years over four generations. Michel Troisgros, the third generation to head the restaurant, has turned over the responsibility for the cuisine to his son César, the 4th generation of Troisgros chefs. Wiseman embarks us on a mouthwatering and sense-pleasing journey into the family’s three restaurant kitchens. An immersive experience, showing the great artistry, ingenuity, imagination, and hard work of the restaurant staff in creating, preparing, and presenting meals of the highest quality.
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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
director: Frederick Wiseman actor: Richard Dawkins / Elvis Costello …
other title: Ex Libris: La Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York / Ex Libris. Die Public Library von New York …
A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital revolution.
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Titicut Follies (1967) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Titicut Follies
director: Frederick Wiseman
A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers, and psychiatrists.
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National Gallery (2014) [Movie] TMDB
National Gallery
director: Frederick Wiseman actor: Leanne Benjamin / Kausikan Rajeshkumar …
A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the Gallery's visitors. The film portrays the role of the curators and conservators; the education, scientific, and conservation departments; and the audience of all kinds of people who come to experience it.
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Public Housing (1997) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Public Housing
director: Frederick Wiseman
other title: Logement social
Public Housing is Wiseman’s unflinching portrayal of life at the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago, a raw exposition of the daily conflicts between residents and the bureaucratic machinery to which they are continually subjected. With intimate detail and an abiding dedication to his subject, Wiseman unearths the hidden facets of institutions to find humanity and sites of unexpected beauty.
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Belfast, Maine (1999) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Belfast, Maine
director: Frederick Wiseman
BELFAST, MAINE is a film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. It is a portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the cultural life of the community. Among the activities shown in the film are the work of lobstermen, tug-boat operators, factory workers, shop owners, city counselors, doctors, judges, policemen, teachers, social workers, nurses and ministers. Cultural activities include choir rehearsal, dance class, music lessons and theatre production.
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Near Death (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Near Death
director: Frederick Wiseman
NEAR DEATH is a film about the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The film is concerned with how people face death. More specifically the film presents the complex interrelationships among patients, families, doctors, nurses, hospital staff and religious advisors as they confront the personal, ethical, medical, psychological, religious and legal issues involved in making decisions about whether or not to give life-sustaining treatment to dying patients.
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Welfare (1975) [Movie] TMDB
Welfare
director: Frederick Wiseman
WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.
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Boxing Gym (2010) [Movie] TMDB
Boxing Gym
director: Frederick Wiseman actor: Richard Lord
Explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their personal best.
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Monrovia, Indiana (2018) [Movie] TMDB
Monrovia, Indiana
director: Frederick Wiseman
Monrovia, Indiana explores a small town in rural, mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived along with conflicting stereotypes. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a way of life whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America and in other countries.
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High School (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
High School
director: Frederick Wiseman
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.
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Model (1981) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB
Model
director: Frederick Wiseman actor: Andy Warhol / Apollonia van Ravenstein
MODEL shows male and female models at work on TV commercials, fashion shows, magazine covers, and advertising for a variety of products, including designer collections, fur coats, sports clothes and automobiles. The models are seen at work with photographers whose techniques illustrate different styles of fashion and product photography. The business aspect of running an agency is also shown: interviewing prospective models, career counseling, arranging portfolios, talking with clients, and planning trips. The film presents a view of the intersections of fashion, business, advertising, photography, television and fantasy.
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In Jackson Heights (2015) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
In Jackson Heights
director: Frederick Wiseman
other title: Em Jackson Heights / En Jackson Heights
Legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (At Berkeley, National Gallery) explores the culture, politics and daily life of the Queens, NYC district of Jackson Heights, which lays claim to being the most diverse neighbourhood in the world.
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Primate (1974) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Primate
director: Frederick Wiseman
other title: Primate - Herrentiere
Primate sees realist documentarian Frederick Wiseman hone his lens on the inmates of the Yerkes Primate Research Centre. A representative scientist explains the aims and outcomes of the organisation, describing the mating habits and relationships of the animals.
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Hospital (1970) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB IMDb
Hospital
director: Frederick Wiseman actor: Eugene Friedman / Stanley Friedman …
Daily activities of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of health care.
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Juvenile Court (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban
Juvenile Court
director: Frederick Wiseman
"Juvenile Court" shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court.
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I Miss Sonia Henie (1971) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Nedostaje mi Sonja Henie
director: Frederick Wiseman / Karpo Aćimović Godina … actor: Brooke Hayward / Sonja Henie …
other title: Nedostaje mi Sonja Henie / I Miss Sonja Henie
One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to include the sentence “I miss Sonja Henie." This experimental film was shot over a single night at the international film festival FEST in Beograd in 1971.