Recent Press
What people are saying about the DVDs!
"It's no surprise that Wiseman's great films stand as such imposing touchstones. For anyone looking to make sense of modern-day America -- its human institutions and social constructs -- no other body of work comes close."
160; &#-Dennis Lim, The LA Times
“a cause for celebration...Frederick Wiseman went digital...Taken together, this is work that presents a sweeping, continuing portrait of modern America, its institutions, social relations, administrative and bureaucratic controls and of course—right at the center of this filmmaker’s unyielding frame—its people.”
-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“A little-noticed treasure fell into the laps of movie-lovers amid the hullabaloo of year-end top 10 lists and Oscar bait. Frederick Wiseman's massive, moving chronicles of America, its people, and its institutions have long been elusive after initial television broadcasts and theater runs, unless one was willing to scour library collections. But the recent release on DVD of 23 documentaries by the great filmmaker finally makes widely available an essential piece of movie history and American society and culture.”
-Nicolas Rapold, The New York Sun
“I urge anyone who is interested in documentaries or who is just interested in real life, rather than what passes for reality on television, to check out Mr. Wiseman's work. His films can now be purchased from Zipporah Films.”
-David Wallechinsky, The Huffington Post
"...indisputably one of the all-time great documentary filmmakers."
-DVDTalk.com
“I expect that sales of ‘Titicut Follies’ will go through the roof.”
-Aaron Barnhart, TV Barn, Kansas City Star
“For more than forty years, Frederick Wiseman has been one of the hardest-working and most respected documentary filmmakers in the world... He's both an investigative journalist and a social realist novelist with a camera, and making his work available is one small step in seeing to it that the world make better sense.”
-Phil Nugent, The Screengrab, Nerve.com
Not Coming to a Theatre Near You.com features the cinema of Frederick Wiseman.
“Cinephiles rejoice! After wishing, hoping, and praying for what feels like centuries, the impossible dream has become a glorious reality. Yes, it's true. The films of Frederick Wiseman are finally available for purchase on DVD! ...This is a Major Cultural Event, people, one that should be causing raucous celebrations online and offline, inside and outside, here, there, and everywhere. If you love filmmaking, this is officially the greatest news ever!”
-Michael Tully, blogs.indiewire.com