Meet 96-year-old Frederick Wiseman, the best American filmmaker you’ve (probably) never heard of - INSIDE FILM: There are few filmmakers around as insightful, prolific, and profound as Wiseman, writes ...

Director Len Wiseman is no stranger to action franchises, having helmed the first two “Underworld” movies as well as the fourth entry in Bruce Willis‘ John McClane saga, “Live Free or Die Hard.” ...

Frederick Wiseman may not be a household name for the average filmgoer, but he has built a reputation as one of the best American documentary filmmakers of the past 60 years. With that in mind, the ...

The content of Wiseman’s films, which often focus on the kind of social programs that only a “big” government can provide, might remind one of WPA-funded early American documentaries. Yet his ...

For one thing, he almost exclusively makes documentaries, a mode of filmmaking that's hardly packing out the multiplexes.

When we talk about the Great American Filmmakers, there are some names that simply demand to be mentioned. Names like Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, or David Lynch: those artists whose coruscating ...