Straight from its premiere at New York City’s Metrograph theater, the new 35mm print of Titicut Follies screened at Portland’s Northwest Film Center on April 21 with director Frederick Wiseman in ...

In 1966 Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane gave filmmaker Frederick Wiseman unprecedented access. Wiseman documented staff at the Massachusetts hospital herding patients, often ...

The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking will present Frederick Wiseman’s 1967 documentary “Titicut Follies” with the 2012 Legacy Award. Wiseman will accept the award on behalf of the film on ...

This year the Museum of Modern Art’s Film Department launched a year long retrospective of a prominent octogenarian documentarian. On opening night of the series, with the filmmaker present, the ...

-Fifty years ago the film, "Titicut Follies," was released in black and white, a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frederick Wiseman, the prolific documentary filmmaker behind the controversial 1967 film "Titicut Follies" and 2017's "Ex Libris," ...

The movie "Titicut Follies" was a disruptive force. So too is the ballet it has inspired. When lawyer-turned-documentarian Frederick Wiseman filmed the abusive conditions in a Massachusetts state ...

MOORHEAD — The 1967 documentary “Titicut Follies” looks at the lives of patients and inmates at a hospital for the criminally insane. The depiction of life in the facility, including abuse from staff, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Frederick Wiseman arrives at the 2016 Governors Awards, Nov. 12, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP ...