Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world. From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. May his memory be a blessing.
having stupidly gotten a film production degree i can tell you that part of why films are so bad now is because most people graduating from those programs do not watch movies that were made before 1995 or know how to read
Pynchon’s most pivotal novel imo. You can feel him dropping the cynicism of his previous work for at least a little hope that if we can’t completely stop Them, we can at least carve out something worthwhile.