folks, i've done it. a complete Frederick Wiseman flowchart, including every film he's made. if you've been asking "where do i start with Wiseman?" this is what you've been looking for

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oh interesting so you're telling me there is a precedent for people "dying" but being alive in westeros from a major cover up ....

Stephen King could not be more clear about this: walking is evil

white boy STUNS kingsroad travelers singing in perfect Dothraki

oh he has been WAITING to talk about this

We are never getting that other Pynchon novel.

this is why I get so cranky (probably too cranky) when fandom treats actors like dolls or concept art and obsesses over phenotype. an actor is a storyteller, a collaborator / creator. Bertie Carvel brings so much more to this role than the way his face happens to look

"Mike...why am I out?"

Duvall has the least flashy of the big Godfather roles but for an actor with so many brash performances later in his career it's so crucially unshowy. The horse in the bed doesn't play if Duvall's Hagen is less meticulously polite; this is the velvet glove around the iron fist

Frederick Wiseman’s nonpareil influence on non-fiction cinema is both extremely obvious yet cannot be overstated. He was a great American artist.

there is not another filmmaker in the history of the medium with a body of work that can rival Wiseman. it's like comparing a mighty oak to a dandelion.

A rare case where a 96-year-old filmmaker’s death feels tragic because they had so much more left to do

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If you're looking to catch up on one of the great American artists now that he's passed, this will help!

If I were sharing my piece on Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket, Vineland, & OBAA––now online––just a week ago, all kinds of pleasure centers in my brain would be firing off. Instead I feel adrift, but my mom would be proud of me so why don't you read it? currentaffairs.org/news/thomas-py…

Literally these guys never have read the books. Every time. Blue check, posting something contrarian about the series, they have never read the books. Every time. Clockwork. Do not give them the time of day.

"Ashara Dayne is in Greywater Watch as Jyana Reed," I say into the mic. The crowd boos. I begin to walk off, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room. "She's right" he says. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 5th row stands: George RR Martin himself