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Films TITICUT FOLLIES Frederick Wiseman USA 84', B&W, 16mm, 1967 English speaking, Portuguese subtitles The film is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. TITICUT FOLLIES documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers and psychiatrists. The film was banished by Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts between 1967 and 1992. "TITICUT FOLLIES is a documentary film that tells you more than you could possibly want to know - but no more than you should know - about life behind the walls of one of those institutions where we file and forget the criminal insane… A society's treatment of the least of its citizens - and surely these are the least of ours - is perhaps the best measure of its civilization. The repulsive reality revealed in TITICUT FOLLIES forces us to contemplate our capacity for callousness." - Richard Schickel, Life. APRIL 1ST3:30 pmCCBB APRIL 48:00 pmCINESESC HIGH SCHOOL A ESCOLA Frederick Wiseman USA 75', B&W, 16mm, 1968 English speaking, Portuguese subtitles The school system exists not only to pass on "facts" but ideally to transmit social values from one generation to another. The film documents how this social conditioning occurs. In a large, above-average urban high school, we witness a series of formal and informal encounters between the teachers, students, parents, and administrators through which the ideology and values of the school emerge. "The school somehow takes warm, breathing teen-agers and tries to turn them into 40-year old mental eunuchs… No wonder the kids turn off, stare out the windows, become surly, try to escape… The most frightening thing about HIGH SCHOOL is that it captures the battlefield so clearly; the film is too true." - Peter Janssen, Newsweek MARCH 317:30 pmCCBB APRIL 44:00 pmCINESESC LAW AND ORDER LEI E ORDEM Frederick Wiseman USA 81', B&W, 16mm, 1969 English speaking, Portuguese subtitles LAW AND ORDER documents the routine activities of the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department. Filmed in the highest crime district of the city, the film surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perforM: enforcing the law, maintaining order, and providing general social services. The incidents shown illustrate how training, community expectations, socio-economic status of the subject, the threat of violence, and discretion affect police behavior. Some of the incidents include arrests of a car thief and a prostitute, a clothing store hold-up, medical emergencies, intercession in family arguments. "… There is the implicit threat of violence in any radio call. Moreover, the cops are expected to dispose of countless routine problems - drunks, accidents, family quarrels - that can´t be 'solved' to anyone's satisfaction and that most 'decent' people don't want to touch." - Gary Arnold, The Washington Post MARCH 315:30 pmCCBB APRIL 310:00 pmCINESESC HOSPITAL Frederick Wiseman USA 84', B&W, 16mm, 1969 English speaking, Portuguese subtitles HOSPITAL shows the daily activities of a large urban hospital, Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with the emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations, and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of appropriate health care. "It is as open and revealing as filmed experience has ever been. You look misery in the eye and you realize there's nothing to be afraid of… By the end we are so thoroughly involved… that tears well up, because we simply have no other means of responding to the intensity of this plain view of the ordinary activities in Metropolitan Hospital." - Pauline Kael, The New Yorker. APRIL 1ST7:00 pmCCBB APRIL 46:00 pmCINESESC JUVENILE COURT TRIBUNAL JUVENIL Frederick Wiseman USA 144', B&W, 16mm, 1973 English speaking, Portuguese subtitles JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of the cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court. "Literally and figuratively, Wiseman opens the doors of perception in the daily routine of a juvenile court… (A) master educator, (he) refuses to preach or even teach, but we learn - and are immeasurably enriched by the experience." - Jerrold Hickey, The Boston Globe. MARCH 308:30 pmCCBB APRIL 54:00 pmCINESESC WELFARE ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL Frederick Wiseman USA 167', B&W, 16mm, 1975 English speaking, Portuguese subtitles The nature and complexity of the welfare system is examined by sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychological problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as the clients are struggling to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life. "… As Wiseman's film shows, the welfare center is a battleground with the poor fighting desperately against a complex web of Catch 22 regulations that can defeat even the strongest and cleverest… An amazing film." - Ken Wlaschin, London Film Festival Program, 1975. APRIL 1ST8:30 pmCCBB APRIL 64:00 pmCINESESC MODEL MODELO Frederick Wiseman USA 129', B&W, 16mm, 1980 English speaking, Portuguese subtitles The film shows men and women models at work on TV commercials, fashion shows, print advertising, posing for magazine covers and ads for a variety of products: designer's collections, fur coats, sports clothes and automobiles. The models are seen at work with photographers whose techniques illustrate different styles of fashion and product photography. Also, the business aspect of running an agency is shown: interviewing prospective models, career counseling, arranging portfolios, talking with clients and planning trips. The film presents a view of the intersections of fashion, business, advertising, photography, television and fantasy. "We have all the fascination of looking into another world and none of the annoyance of being told what to think about it… his camera, like the eye, is not merely passive. It has the power to focus on something particular, to observe it and to be the means of our intelligence about it…" - Mary Frasier, London Times Literary Supplement MARCH 313:30 pmCCBB APRIL 84:00 pmCINESESC BELFAST, MAINE Frederick Wiseman USA 248', COLOR, 16mm, 1999 English speaking, Portuguese subtitles "Belfast, Maine" is a film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. It is a portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and cultural life of the community. Among the activities shown in the film are the work of lobstermen, tug-boat operators, factory workers, shop owners, city counselors, doctors, judges, policemen, teachers, social workers, nurses and ministers. Cultural activities include choir rehearsal, dance class, music lessons and theatre production. The film is about ordinary experience in this small American city. "BELFAST, MAINE… conveys a deeply emotional sense of place, season and time of day. In contrasting the breathtaking landscape with the troubled lives of many of those living there, it reminds us that the fleeting beauties of the natural world - the simple pleasures available to all - are among life's deepest consolation." - Stephen Holden, The New York Times MARCH 303:30 pmCCBB APRIL 74:00 pmCINESESC |