Closet Picks

5 Oct 2022

Frederick Wiseman’s Closet Picks

The great documentary filmmaker chooses a group of films that embody some of the qualities he tries to bring to his own work, including straight-faced comedy and the mixture of literal and abstract elements.

Choices
5
Single films
5
Box sets
0
Chose Director Year
1 Bicycle Thieves Vittorio De Sica 1948
2 La strada Federico Fellini 1954
3 Knife in the Water Roman Polanski 1962
4 Down by Law Jim Jarmusch 1986
5 Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick 1957

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