The Direct Cinema Pioneer Who Let Institutions Speak
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The Times memorializes Frederick Wiseman, highlighting his direct cinema approach and the controversial Titicut Follies, whose ban and decades-long legal battles helped shape free-speech jurisprudence; Wiseman showed that people are defined by the institutions surrounding them, a thread he pursued across more than 40 documentaries before his death at 96.
- Frederick Wiseman Watched People Like Nobody Else The New York Times
- Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies The New York Times
- Why Frederick Wiseman Was the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker Ever The New Yorker
- America Just Lost Another of Its Great Institutions. This One Was a Filmmaker. Slate
- Frederick Wiseman, a master of immersive documentaries, dies at 96 The Washington Post
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