Frederick Wiseman obituary

Influential documentary-maker whose films eavesdropped on the relationships between people and institutions In 1960, when a small group of American documentary film-makers named their work direct cinema, they might have been accurately describing the films of Frederick Wiseman, who has died aged 96. Although he came along a few years later, Wiseman, more than the others in the movement, exemplified the credo of direct cinema, which believed in an immediate and authentic approach to the subje...

By Ronald Bergan