Word: documentarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going with my strength, always making hits," but not growing as a performer, one begins to understand what led him to produce a straight movie like The Front and then move on to the Bergmanesque Interiors. And the shots of Allen at home talking casually to the unseen documentarian and playing his clarinet put to rout forever the myth that Allen is still the totally nervous, completely incompetent schlep; inept in daily life and in his relationships. Fact is, Allen is as well-adjusted, self-actualized as he will ever be, and, after years of struggle--through analysis and through...
...come. This implied promise of livelier things to come also helps get us through a middle passage where Roy Scheider, as the punk criminal, and Bruno Cremer, as the banker, are seen to suffer interminable misery in some of the most squalid squalor anybody this side of a PBS documentarian has put on a screen in a long time. Friedkin has probably been more rigorous about all this than the requirements of popular film making dictate. Since he has an international cast working in a foreign locale, much of the dialogue is translated in subtitles, which is going to cause...
SPIRIT: Frederick Wiseman's Welfare (PBS). With his customary cool compassion, TV's only great documentarian showed us not a bland and idealized portrait of what we have been but the inhumane and bureaucratized future that has already arrived for the poor and could dominate everyone's life by our 300th birthday...
This is one of those documentaries that get by, not on their own quality but on the richness of their subjects. Arthur Rubinstein is a full bounty, as much a great pianist as a cosmic romantic force. Unhappily, French Co-Director François Reichenbach is a sloppy, indiscriminate documentarian. His last contribution was the scrambled paean to the glories of rock culture, The Medicine Ball Caravan (1971). The Rubinstein film betrays the same makeshift style, the same kind of groupie's reverence. It does not serve Rubinstein well, but serving him at all makes the film notable...
...better part of a decade, Film Documentarian Frederick Wiseman has been sending us-mostly over the Public Broadcasting Service-a series of Goyaesque pictures from our institutions. The police, the courts, hospitals, a high school, the Army, even a monastery have given him his subjects. In almost every instance he has found them to be butterfingered bureaucracies. They show more dedication to preserving the untroubled functioning of their own administrative systems than to doing their job, which is usually supposed to be helping people. What has made these brutal films bearable is that time after time Wiseman has discovered competent...