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.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- 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 |