Hospital
Nov 12 - Nov 17, 2016
(Frederick Wiseman, US, 1969, 35mm, 84 min)
35mm print! Screening at The Grand Illusion Cinema
Please note: This screening takes place at The Grand Illusion Cinema, NOT Northwest Film Forum
Frederick Wiseman's Hospital shows the daily activities of Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with particular emphasis on the emergency ward and out-patient clinics. It won an Emmy for Best News Documentary, and Wiseman won for Best Director in 1970.
“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