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jueves, 2 de junio de 2011

Boxing Gym - Frederick Wiseman (2010)























Duración: 91
Idioma: Ingles / English
País: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1653827/

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Image: John Davey
Sound: Frederick Wiseman
Editing: Frederick Wiseman

Synopsis:
Austin, Texas. Lord's Gym was founded sixteen years ago by Richard Lord, a former professional boxer. A wide variety of people of all ages, races, ethnicities and social classes train at the gym: men, women, children, doctors, lawyers, judges, business men and women, immigrants, professional boxers and people who want to become professional boxers alongside amateurs who love the sport and teenagers who are trying to develop strength and assertiveness. The gym is an example of the American “melting pot” where people meet, talk, and train.




















































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Thanks a lot to Lazslo and Poenir!
Muchas gracias a Lazslo y Poenir!

martes, 8 de marzo de 2011

Domestic Violence 1 & 2 (2001-2002)











Duración: 195 min
Idioma: Ingles/English
Pais: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305489/

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Synopsis: With DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, master documentarian Frederick Wiseman (HIGH SCHOOL, TITICUT FOLLIES) turns his unflinching eye on a topic that society has ignored for far too long. Rather than film actual domestic disputes, a la COPS, Wiseman instead takes a much less exploitative approach, and, in so doing, has created a deeply intelligent, challenging work that will no doubt spark serious discussions wherever it is exhibited (most likely on PBS, with whom the director has a longstanding relationship). Focusing on The Spring, Tampa, which is Florida's largest shelter for abused women and their children, Wiseman's objective camera allows a group of these distraught women to tell their own painful stories. As each new victim bravely shares her tale of horror, it becomes painfully clear just how convoluted and troubling a problem domestic violence actually is, a claim that Wiseman supports technically, through his use of extremely long takes and unobtrusive editing. At 196 minutes, the experience is a draining one, to say the least. But it is stimulating in a way that most films, documentary or otherwise, are not. Staying true to the formula that has made him a cinematic legend, Frederick Wiseman proves once again that there is far more drama in everyday life than in the multiplexes.

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Duración: 240
Idioma: English/Ingles
Pais: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315507/

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Synopsis: The opening scene in this film is of an arrest in Hillsborough County Florida where a woman has scratched her husband while he was trying to restrain her from getting back in her car and leaving after an argument. The officers explain that she has committed a battery and thereby earned herself an inescapable arrest and overnight stay in jail because by law they have no discretion. This sets the stage for two hours of court proceedings before three different judges, each trying to apply the Florida domestic violence laws. Though it gets repetitive, it also is fascinating to try to figure out what to do with such issues as restraining orders, parental visits, child support and punishment as each witness testifies, and to see how the judges react.

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jueves, 3 de marzo de 2011

State Legislature - Frederick Wiseman (2007)


Duración: 216 min
Idioma: Ingles
Pais: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1043871/

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Descripción: Uno de los grandes maestros estadounidenses del direct-cinema, Frederick Wiseman, lleva el estilo al paroxismo con State Legislature. Sin entrevistas, sin comentarios y menos aún voces en off se interna durante casi cuatro horas en el trabajo de la legislatura de Idaho, un estado de poco más de 1,3 millón de habitantes del noroeste de Estados Unidos.

La cámara omnipresente y minuciosa de Wiseman muestra las sesiones legislativas en las que se discuten algunas cuestiones controversiales: la desregulación de los servicios públicos, la violencia escolar, la separación de la Iglesia y del Estado, la prohibición de fumar en los lugares públicos, el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. Entre uno y otro debate se ven curiosidades, charlas de pasillo y la labor cotidiana de uno de los tres poderes del Estado: desde las visitas guiadas de estudiantes hasta la limpieza del edificio. Sin preámbulos, el director nos mete de cabeza en cada segmento y hay que ir armando la situación con los pedazos sueltos que van apareciendo en pantalla.

Lobbys, contradicciones, aciertos y lisas y llanas imbecilidades pasan por el documental, que exhibe sin condenar pero con una mirada crítica las complejidades, riquezas y limitaciones del sistema democrático.

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"STATE LEGISLATURE", DOCUMENTAL DE WISEMAN.
El espíritu de la democracia
Por Luciano Monteagudo.


Este año, el Bafici tiene una sección llamada "Democracias", que incluye media docena de documentales con orígenes y estilos de lo más variados, desde el japonés Campaign, de Kazuhiro Soda, hasta Cocalero, de Alejandro Landes, que siguen respectivamente las campañas de un histriónico candidato a una intendencia de los suburbios de Tokio y la de Evo Morales a la presidencia de Bolivia. Pero si hay un film en el Bafici que no sólo defiende sino también define como ninguno la esencia y el espíritu de la democracia, que es capaz de dar cuenta de su complejidad, su riqueza y también de sus limitaciones, ése es State Legislature, el flamante documental de ese maestro del género que es el estadounidense Frederick Wiseman.

En casi 40 años de trabajo, Wiseman ha construido un cuerpo de obra ejemplar, dedicado casi en su totalidad a revisar a fondo, con una mirada siempre crítica, el funcionamiento de las instituciones de su país, desde la salud pública hasta la política de viviendas. Entre sus films se encuentran clásicos absolutos del mejor documental, como Titicut Follies (1967), High School (1968) Juvenile Court (1973) Welfare (1975) Public Housing (1997) y Domestic Violence (2001). Y State Legislature, que viene de estrenarse en la última Berlinale, debe sumarse a esa lista como uno de sus picos más altos.

Con su habitual método puramente observacional, que prescinde por completo de narrador, entrevistas o explicaciones, Wiseman –quizás el más perfecto exponente del Direct Cinema– se interna aquí en la Legislatura de Idaho (una réplica más pequeña del Capitolio de Washington) y pone su micrófono y su vieja cámara 16 mm –no necesita más– a registrar todo lo que allí sucede, desde las visitas escolares hasta las sesiones ordinarias, pasando por la reuniones de comisión. Y, milagro, lo que a priori podría suponerse una empresa destinada al tedio se convierte en sus manos en un proyecto fascinante, que va creciendo a medida que avanzan las tres horas y media de duración del film.

Con interludios dedicados a exponer curiosidades o minucias cotidianas del edificio (del cual Wiseman, como el hombre sabio que es, sabe reconocer su fuerte valor simbólico), la película está estructurada por una serie de grandes secuencias, cada una dedicada al debate de un tema en particular, de esos que hoy agitan la agenda política de los Estados Unidos. Así, pasan por State Legislature la desregulación de los servicios públicos, el matrimonio homosexual, la violencia escolar, la separación de la Iglesia y del Estado y la prohibición de fumar en los lugares públicos.

"Una legislatura es la institución representativa más importante de una sociedad democrática –dice Wiseman–. Sus actos u omisiones afectan todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas y establecen las reglas, valores y normas que luego rigen instituciones como la policía, las escuelas, las fuerzas armadas, la salud y el sistema legal". Plenamente consciente de esta verdad que tantas veces se olvida, Wiseman aguza su ojo crítico como una lupa pero no deja de reconocer la calidad y la altura cívica de los debates. Así, State Legislature se convierte en una invitación al ciudadano común a participar activamente de la vida política (una premisa casi subversiva en los tiempos que corren en los Estados Unidos) y en una auténtica oda a la democracia representativa.

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STATE LEGISLATURE shows the day-to-day activities of the Idaho Legislature, including committee meetings, debates of the House and Senate, informal discussions, meetings with lobbyists, constituents, the public and the press. The workings of a democratic government are not of interest solely to Americans, but, because so many countries in the world are currently trying to adopt a democratic form of government, the issues presented have relevance on a global scale. The film is an example of the achievements, values, constraints and limitations of the democratic process.

In the Idaho Legislature, Wiseman found a democratic institution that he could admire. In an interview with the New York Times, he said,

“It’s not about how the votes came out on specific issues and my taking a partisan view about the results, but it was more to show the process — unless it sounds pretentious — of how democracy works. The debates, the committee hearings, the discussions in the corridor: I was very impressed with the seriousness with which they took the task and the civility toward each other and their respect for the process.”

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viernes, 25 de febrero de 2011

La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris (2009)























Duración: 159
Idioma: Frances(subtitulos en ingles incrustados)
Pais: France-USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1500496/

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Synopsis: In “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet,” his 36th documentary in more than 40 years, Frederick Wiseman takes his camera into the stately and elegant Palais Garnier in Paris, observing rehearsals, staff meetings and, finally, performances of seven dances, including classics like “The Nutcracker” and spiky new work by younger choreographers. To say that the film, sumptuous in its length and graceful in its rhythm, is a feast for ballet lovers is to state the obvious and also to sell Mr. Wiseman’s achievement a bit short. Yes, this is one of the finest dance films ever made, but there’s more to it than that.

You might as well say that his previous documentary, the enthralling three-and-a-half-hour “State Legislature,” is a must-see for devotees of Idaho politics. It certainly is, but its greater virtue, and the substance of Mr. Wiseman’s particular genius, is the way it transfixes you with the inner workings of an institution you may not otherwise care about. The observation of groups of people functioning in a clearly defined professional or social context has been Mr. Wiseman’s primary interest ever since his first film, “Titicut Follies,” which exposed the workings of the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Massachusetts.

The Paris Opera Ballet is of course a more exalted place than either the Boise Statehouse or that grim New England penitentiary — its dancers are certainly easier on the eyes than legislators or social workers — but the quality of Mr. Wiseman’s attention is the same. His curiosity is boundless but also disciplined, and he forgoes explanation in favor of a visual version of what anthropologists call thick description.

In “La Danse” you watch closely as dancers and choreographers break complex movements down into their constituent gestures, a process that is at once tedious and entirely engrossing. Though all the rehearsing culminates in full-dress performance, “La Danse” really has no beginning, middle or end. It is, rather, about two kinds of time that exist outside traditional narrative frameworks: the long, slow, repetitive cycle in which institutions exist, and the fleeting moments of bodily motion and musical expression that make ballet such a singular and elusive art form.

All this makes the film sound remote, even abstract, but it is really the opposite. There are characters, events and miniature dramas that unfold in the course of the ballet company’s work. There is also a lot of talk, much of it provided by Brigitte Lefèvre, the troupe’s artistic director and a rhetorician in the grand French style. It is sometimes hard to follow what she is talking about, but her energy and cadences are mesmerizing.

And “La Danse,” among its other observations, emphasizes the distance between verbal analysis and physical movement. Dance is a vehicle of meaning and emotion, but it is also a technical undertaking consisting of minutely controlled muscular movements. What goes on in rehearsal is the negotiation between art and technique, and language is a paltry but necessary tool. One choreographer prattles on about “context” to a dancer who nods her head gamely but studies his body language more than his words. Another choreographer, an Anglophone working with French performers, forgoes words altogether, communicating his “notes” through a serious of hums and clucks, like a scat singer or a human beat box.

The performances that result from all this work — and that are upheld by the gritty business of fund-raising and nearly obstructed by French labor troubles — are ravishing and also a bit anticlimactic. By the time you see the dancers in costume, on a carefully lighted stage and accompanied by a full orchestra, you have attained an intriguing liminal status somewhere between spectator and performer.

If you did not already know the names of the stars of the Paris Opera Ballet — Aurélie Dupont and Laetitia Pujol stand out particularly — you will nonetheless have acquired an almost tactile sense of who they are. “How can we know the dancer from the dance?” wondered William Butler Yeats in his poem “Among School Children.” It’s a simple and also endlessly mysterious question, one that Mr. Wiseman, in his patient, meticulous, magical way, both restates and answers.




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sábado, 11 de diciembre de 2010

Frederick Wiseman & Barry Keith Grant - Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing (2006)



















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martes, 27 de octubre de 2009

Titicut Follies - Frederick Wiseman (1967)



Controvertido y aclamado documental que narra la vida de los reclusos de una prisión psiquiátrica de Massachussets. El documental estuvo prohibido en algunos estados norteamericanos varios años debido a su crudo retrato de los abusos sufridos por los internos a mano de los guardas de seguridad y los médicos de la institución. El título viene de un concurso de talentos organizado por los propios internos.