as in film
the art or business of making a movie
plans to attend New York University to learn filmmaking
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Over more than fifty years of documentary filmmaking, Frederick Wiseman has made an art of withholding judgment and showing people figuring things out on their own.
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Andrew Katzenstein, The New York Review of Books, 6 Feb. 2025
Blood Test by Charles Baxter Andrew Katzenstein The Impressionist
Over more than fifty years of documentary filmmaking, Frederick Wiseman has made an art of withholding judgment and showing people figuring things out on their own.
—James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2025
The way to address this, the possibilities to really make this work for us in life needed a representation in filmmaking.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
After graduating from college with an electrical engineering degree, Will Packer switched gears and decided to pursue a career in filmmaking.
—Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
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Andrew Katzenstein, The New York Review of Books, 6 Feb. 2025
Blood Test by Charles Baxter Andrew Katzenstein The Impressionist
Over more than fifty years of documentary filmmaking, Frederick Wiseman has made an art of withholding judgment and showing people figuring things out on their own.
—James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2025
The way to address this, the possibilities to really make this work for us in life needed a representation in filmmaking.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
After graduating from college with an electrical engineering degree, Will Packer switched gears and decided to pursue a career in filmmaking.
—Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
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