I wonder if the Kanopy selection is different depending on your library, but all 43 Wiseman films are available in mine. I've been going through them chronologically and recently saw Meat, which was another gruesome one in the vein of Primate
― Dan S, Saturday, 22 May 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link
yea kanopy varies dramatically by library
― flopson, Saturday, 22 May 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
Canal Zone (1977) was interesting, mostly visually, but I thought Sinai Field Mission (1978) and Manoeuvre (1979) were both kind of dull
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
Wiseman’s four-part film series on disability - Deaf (1986), Multi-Handicapped (1986), Adjustment and Work (1986) and Blind (1987) - were all interesting.
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 April 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link
I thought they expressed really well that communication is not just about speech or writing but also touch, sound, gesture, comportment
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 April 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
Apologies for recycling social media posts, but I've been thinking about Sinai Field Mission a lot.
But what it’s really portraying is a group who have fenced themselves off in the desert and (in the name of trying to maintain peace between Israel & Egypt) can’t even make peace among themselves. pic.twitter.com/v0aDfw21c2— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) October 29, 2021
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 22 April 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
It opens with a near wordless scene of a guy driving out in the middle of the desert to brush sand. Legit thought that Wiseman was making an Antonioni movie. pic.twitter.com/nXXvrh8Xcu— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) October 29, 2021
Some of the best depictions of boredom. pic.twitter.com/2feH2ypj3M— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) October 29, 2021
thought that film was inscrutable
― Dan S, Saturday, 23 April 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
I like that he moves methodically from subject to subject
going through them chronologically, the next one for me is Missile (1988)
― Dan S, Saturday, 23 April 2022 00:44 (one year ago) link
"Frederick Wiseman Goes Fictional for the First Time - After nearly 60 years of non-fiction filmmaking, Wiseman tells IndieWire why he picked "A Couple" as his first fiction film."https://www.indiewire.com/2022/08/frederick-wiseman-interview-a-couple-1234747847/
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 22 August 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
I am about halfway through a VHS rip of The Garden, his doc about Madison Square Garden filmed from '97-98 that is apparently his only currently suppressed film. James Dolan apparently withdrew legal permission to release it due to scenes of MSG execs plotting labor negotiation strategy (more info here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/25/secret-garden). It would no doubt have been up there as one of his most colorful and accessible films were it released, and Stone Cold Steve Austin and Mary J. Blige among others would officially be considered Wiseman vets.
― Chris L, Monday, 12 September 2022 04:50 (one year ago) link
A couple months back I asked one of the hosts of Wiseman Podcast (big, big recommendation for this BTW - better than all film podcasts) if they were going to cover The Garden - they will and apparently the film will get an official release next year.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 12 September 2022 05:49 (one year ago) link
Whoa, cool; thanks! I think I follow the Wiseman podcast guy on Twitter but have not checked it out yet.
― Chris L, Monday, 12 September 2022 06:01 (one year ago) link
If you check out any episode, listen to their interview with Wiseman himself. It's good and covers a lot of subjects that I haven't heard in any other interviews with him.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 12 September 2022 07:17 (one year ago) link
I'm in the middle of Belfast, Maine right now. Heavy, miasmic, rough road of American gothic but some of the scenes are among Wiseman's best.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 12 September 2022 07:40 (one year ago) link
(I love that he's into Down By Law)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOpRVNqOZUA
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
Love that clip. Going to guess he and Jarmusch know each other, but if not, can you imagine sitting there and watching this and hearing Frederick Wiseman say he loves your film and he's seen it six times?
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 November 2022 01:13 (one year ago) link
Watching “Central Park” over the last few days.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 01:28 (one year ago) link
Early takeaway: I would like to visit this park, but, um, not in the late 1980s.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
We watched City Hall over the weekend and I sorta think it should have been called Mayor??
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 05:08 (one year ago) link
The Midnight Oil show wasn't that bad!
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 09:04 (one year ago) link
It was nice to see LeVar Burton!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 1 January 2023 03:51 (one year ago) link
And yeah, the Midnight Oil performance is great!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 1 January 2023 03:57 (one year ago) link
Damn, people seemed to love Ed Koch.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 1 January 2023 04:13 (one year ago) link
Happy 93rd birthday today Fred!
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 2 January 2023 02:42 (one year ago) link
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009), the last Wiseman joint shot on film and the first in a wide format (though interestingly 5:3 rather than 16:9 or 1.85 like the films that follow) is a good deal weirder than you might expect going into it. pic.twitter.com/Py1RQQUIBO— arlin golden (@cerealburrito) May 13, 2023
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 07:34 (eleven months ago) link
Watching “Missile”.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 1 July 2023 23:28 (nine months ago) link
worth turning on the subtitles on that just for the “bland music “ cues
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 July 2023 23:37 (nine months ago) link
Kinda electric to encounter “Planet Claire” and “Pop Music” in Model.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 9 July 2023 19:44 (nine months ago) link
And … there’s Andy Warhol!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 9 July 2023 19:46 (nine months ago) link
We had to pause Crazy Horse midway through because I outbursted with "this is Fredrick Wiseman's verison of the James Bond opening credits!" and then we wondered what a Wiseman James Bond movie would even be like - we made up more and more preposterous and funnier scenes. Frederick Wiseman's UNIVERSAL EXPORTS: Endless meetings with photo-interpreters, do we/do we not burn fuel on the spy satellite to get a better photo? Lots of one sided telephone calls, many pained looks into screens, others repetetively cleaning up audio transcriptions. A janitor empties the paper shredders and burn bags and night, Bond himself is never direcly on camera, we only see him through drone overheads and surveillance video.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 07:27 (nine months ago) link
Will never forget the critic who dubbed that movie Tittie-butt Follies.
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 13:36 (nine months ago) link
The restaurant movie gets a title: Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros and a premiere at TIFF this year. It's 4 hours long too - stoked!
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 27 July 2023 06:45 (eight months ago) link
I hope it gets a decent run in the U.S.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 20:08 (seven months ago) link
sounds really good
going through all of his films in order by year I have still only made it up to High School II from 1994
― Dan S, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 00:05 (seven months ago) link
There are a couple of reviews of Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros out - this one maybe the most considered?https://outskirtsmag.com/Menus-Plaisirs
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 24 September 2023 10:01 (six months ago) link
Tonight: Essene.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 4 November 2023 00:57 (five months ago) link
oh man, the scene with the flyswatter
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 06:05 (five months ago) link
watched Ballet, about the American Ballet Theater, from 1995. It is one of my favorite films of his so far. It is, as always for him, about an institution but features an amazing extended interview with Agnes de Mille before she died and many beautiful rehearsal sequences and performances
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 January 2024 00:37 (three months ago) link
"Most striking might be the sounds Wiseman captures, not just of the music, hardly at all of the music (there isn't even an orchestra at the Athens performance: Wiseman gives us a close-up of the giant tape recorder filling in for the band), but rather the grunts and thuds and squeaks of the dancers' shoes on the surface of the stage. The sound of gravity in an artform that aspires to weightlessness."
https://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/09/on-frederick-wisemans-ballet.html
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 January 2024 01:25 (three months ago) link
this goes about exactly how you'd expect fred wiseman appearing as a talking head in a documentary called "cinema verite: defining the moment" might. pic.twitter.com/hiZR7s4irT— arlin golden (@cerealburrito) February 3, 2024
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 22:21 (two months ago) link
(last bit of it) pic.twitter.com/FJE5IHuAOD— arlin golden (@cerealburrito) February 3, 2024
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 22:22 (two months ago) link
Man, the judge in “Juvenile Court”… what a job
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:57 (one month ago) link
Apparently you can watch the latest film here
https://www.pbs.org/video/menus-plaisirs-les-troisgros-rbfnou/
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:28 (four weeks ago) link
we just watched that -- it was very long and medium enjoyable imo. i enjoyed the kitchen scenes and seeing the chefs foraging and clowning around, but it was definitely bougie Wiseman (not my favorite)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:47 (four weeks ago) link
i did like that it was an entry into the behind-the-scenes kitchen films/media that did not portray the kitchen as a chaotic/abusive/stressful place. everything was extremely placid.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:49 (four weeks ago) link
I’m sure i will eventually get around to it and probably enjoy it, but even as a Wiseman buff i’ve had a hard time working up much enthusiasm for it just based on the subject
After years of having it on my watchlist i finally got around to Near Death a couple weeks ago and it completely rocked my world, i havent been able to stop thinking about it since, might be his masterpiece imho. It wasnt as disturbing or difficult to watch as i’d always feared, but just unbelievably rich & complex.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:10 (four weeks ago) link
Such a great film--my second favourite (seems like a weird word to use) after Welfare.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 March 2024 14:04 (four weeks ago) link
His new film is not as good as "Near Death", however, it is still worth checking out. Wiseman has great rhythm to his films. This latest one is no exception. The 4 hours zoom by really quickly.
― Vintage, Monday, 25 March 2024 04:45 (three weeks ago) link