Frederick Wiseman — Director (22)
The Store (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Store
director: Frederick Wiseman actor: Art Buchwald / Lady Bird Johnson
other title: The Store - Grandi Magazzini
THE STORE is a film about the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas. The sequences in the film include the selection, presentation, marketing, pricing, advertising and selling of a vast array of consumer products including designer clothes and furs, jewelry, perfumes, shoes, electronic products, sportswear, china and porcelain and many other goods. The internal management and organizational aspects of a large corporation are shown, i.e., sales meetings, development of marketing and advertising strategies, training, personnel practices and sales techniques.
Seraphita's Diary (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Seraphita's Diary
director: Frederick Wiseman actor: Apollonia van Ravenstein
The story of a famous fashion model who, unable to cope with the fantasies and pressures her beauty induces in others, disappears. The film is a profile of her emotional life and contrasts the fantasies she creates in other people's minds with the strains of her real emotional life as revealed in her diaries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.