Rent Cinema Expanded: The Films of Frederick Wiseman (1975)
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9h 14min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- With a groundbreaking career spanning seven decades, Frederick Wiseman is one of the great American storytellers. His documentaries, shot vérité-style, are meticulously edited narratives chronicling life's complexities through rich portraits of social and cultural institutions. Wiseman's themes are expansive: democracy, power, inequality and community, to name a few; but his focus is compellingly specific and humane, possessing a unique eye - and ear - for detail.
The Films:
- Titicut Follies (1967)
- High School (1968)
- Hospital (1970)
- Juvenile Court (1973)
- Welfare (1975) - Actors:
- Eugene Friedman, Stanley Friedman, Robert Schwartz
- Directors:
- Frederick Wiseman, Ian Mantgani
- Producers:
- David Eames, Frederick Wiseman
- Writers:
- Frederick Wiseman
- Aka:
- Titicut Follies / Student Affairs / Hospital / Juvenile Court / Welfare
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 26/01/2026
- Run Time:
- 554 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Audio Description
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Various
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Corridors of Power, Windows to the Soul (2025): in this newly commissioned video essay, filmmaker Ian Mantgani explores the films of Frederick Wiseman with a focus on his distinctive filmmaking style and observational storytelling
- 2025 BFI Southbank discussion: filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and curator Matthew Barrington discuss Frederick Wiseman's aesthetics and approach to filmmaking with programme curator Sandra Hebron
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following Films:
- Titicut Follies (1967)
- High School (1968)
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following Films:
- Hospital (1970)
- Juvenile Court (1973) - Disc 3:
- This disc includes the following Film:
- Welfare (1975)
- Special Features
