Titicut Follies (1967) Frederick Wiseman
Titicut Follies (1967)
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Director: Frederick Wiseman
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Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Director: Frederick Wiseman
Language: English | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 84mnHDWebrip H264 Mkv - 1920x1080 - 24fps - 3.27gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062374/
Frederick Wiseman made his documentary debut with this controversial
84-minute survey of conditions that existed during the mid-'60s at the
State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Made in 1967, the film was subjected to a worldwide ban until 1992
because the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that it was an
invasion of inmate privacy. The film goes behind the walls to show stark
and graphic images exposing the treatment of inmates by guards, social
workers, and psychiatrists.
The title refers to a musical revue staged
by inmates and guards. Richard Schickel, writing in Life, stated, "The
repulsive reality revealed in Titicut Follies forces us to contemplate
our capacity for callousness."
The documentary was cited as the "Best
Film Dealing with the Human Condition" at the 1967 Festival Dei Popoli
(Florence) and also honored as the "Best Film" at the 1967 Mannheim
International Filmweek. Robert Coles (The New Republic) wrote, "After a
showing of Titicut Follies the mind does not dwell on the hospital's
ancient and even laughable physical plant, or its pitiable social
atmosphere.
What sticks, what really hurts is the sight of human life
made cheap and betrayed." The story behind the complicated legal issues
raised by this film and the attempts to suppress it are detailed by
Carolyn Anderson and Thomas W. Benson in their book, Documentary
Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's "Titicut Follies" (Southern Illinois
University Press, 1991).
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