Word: titicut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were to steal from any filmmaker, Downey would take from Preston Sturges, the American director whose Sullivan's Travels and Hail, the Conquering Hero are full of the kind of zaniness that abounds in Swope . Other favorite movies of Downey's are Varda's Le Bouheur, Losey's Servant, Titicut Follies, Citizen Kane, the Marx Brothers/Sam Wood's Night at the Opera, Kazan's On the Waterfront, Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes, and Truffaut's Jules...
Frederick Wiseman's award-winning documentary, "Titicut Follies," attempts to bring these conditions to public attention. But it cannot be seen at any public theatre in the country. The film has been banned by order of the Court in Massachusetts, and the Commonwealth has sued its producer, Grove Press. It is curious, indeed, that a film which has been honored in the New York Film Festival, won first prize in the Mannheim Film Festival in Germany, and two of the three prizes in the Festival dei Populi in Italy, cannot be seen by the citizens of this state...
...Titicut Follies shows that, unhappily, not every institution for the mentally ill is as enlightened as Warrendale. Some are trapped in traditions as old as Bedlam, and one such is seen in this raw, poorly edited report on Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane in the Titicut area of Massachusetts. As filmed by Frederick Wiseman and John Marshall, who had the cooperation of the institute's authorities, the life of the patients seems like an echo of Marat/Sade, an existence bereft of dignity or honor. Old men are paraded naked to their cells and taunted by guards who make...