There are few filmmakers working at as high a clip as one Frederick Wiseman, and even fewer who have had as large an impact on filmmaking. Now 40 films into his career, all 49 years of it, Wiseman has become synonymous with a certain brand of street level, verite storytelling that he helped bring to the cinematic forefront early in his career. Fully evolving that style into what is now a mode of long form, narration/interview-free documentary storytelling, films like At Berkeley have found Wiseman crafting hours long narratives out of the lives of a wide cross section of humanity.
In Jackson Heights is the filmmaker’s latest, and possibly greatest, achievement of this segment of his career. Wiseman this time sets his sights on the Jackson Heights neighborhood in Queens, New York, one of the nation’s most diverse neighborhoods. With large populations of people from India, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan,...
In Jackson Heights is the filmmaker’s latest, and possibly greatest, achievement of this segment of his career. Wiseman this time sets his sights on the Jackson Heights neighborhood in Queens, New York, one of the nation’s most diverse neighborhoods. With large populations of people from India, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan,...
- 11/6/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
"How amazing it is that a human being one century from now can fire up their wind-powered neuro-image-emitter, put on Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights, and really get a grasp of what it felt like for these people to live?" asks Rory O'Connor at the Film Stage. In Variety, Jay Weissberg notes that this is "the third of Wiseman’s community-based films, and at three hours, it runs a bit longer than Aspen and one hour shorter than Belfast, Maine. As with those two, he plunges into the neighborhood in question, balancing a feel for streets and public spaces with a fascination for how inhabitants organize themselves along social and political lines." We've posted a preview video and we're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 9/7/2015
- Keyframe
"How amazing it is that a human being one century from now can fire up their wind-powered neuro-image-emitter, put on Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights, and really get a grasp of what it felt like for these people to live?" asks Rory O'Connor at the Film Stage. In Variety, Jay Weissberg notes that this is "the third of Wiseman’s community-based films, and at three hours, it runs a bit longer than Aspen and one hour shorter than Belfast, Maine. As with those two, he plunges into the neighborhood in question, balancing a feel for streets and public spaces with a fascination for how inhabitants organize themselves along social and political lines." We've posted a preview video and we're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 9/7/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Aspen, Colo., property that once belonged to singer-songwriter John Denver is being sold by its current owners for $10.75 million.
John Denver's Aspen Home
John Denver's Home For Sale
Denver’s former home was sold to the current owners for $3.68 million following Denver’s death in 1997, according to the Wall Street Journal. The listing agent Carol Dopkin of Aspen Snowmass Sotheby’s International Realty, who was an acquaintance of Denver's, says that the expansive property is “very unusual, and very reminiscent of John. It’s beautiful. It’s timeless.”
The current owners have made only a couple of changes to Denver’s home, including a hot tub and more lawn space, reports Zillow.
Sitting on about 7.6 acres, the 6,000-square-foot house has six bedroom, 4.5 bathrooms, four indoor fireplaces and an outdoor fireplace. The property also features a guesthouse accessible by a footbath that has an additional 5 bedrooms and Denver’s old recording studio.
John Denver's Aspen Home
John Denver's Home For Sale
Denver’s former home was sold to the current owners for $3.68 million following Denver’s death in 1997, according to the Wall Street Journal. The listing agent Carol Dopkin of Aspen Snowmass Sotheby’s International Realty, who was an acquaintance of Denver's, says that the expansive property is “very unusual, and very reminiscent of John. It’s beautiful. It’s timeless.”
The current owners have made only a couple of changes to Denver’s home, including a hot tub and more lawn space, reports Zillow.
Sitting on about 7.6 acres, the 6,000-square-foot house has six bedroom, 4.5 bathrooms, four indoor fireplaces and an outdoor fireplace. The property also features a guesthouse accessible by a footbath that has an additional 5 bedrooms and Denver’s old recording studio.
- 8/7/2014
- Uinterview
Aspen, Colorado, has long served as a winter playground for the rich and famous, including virtually any celebrity with a private jet (from Jack Nicholson to, more recently, Mariah Carey). If they're not checking into one of several five-star resorts, they own million-dollar homes, like Antonio Banderas and David Geffen. The A-list history can be traced back to the sixties when the Kennedys visited for a family retreat. Since then, Elvis Presley came for ski jaunts, Hunter S. Thompson set up residence and wrote his first article for Rolling Stone ("The Battle of Aspen") and John Denver wrote
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- 1/9/2014
- by Jimmy Im
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Snowmass Village, Colo. — The 950-acre property that John Denver bought in the late 1970s as headquarters for his Windstar Foundation is being sold, a move seen by some environmentalists as the unofficial end to the singer's vision to protect some of the land west of Aspen from being overrun by developers.
The property in Old Snowmass is under contract to be sold to a private buyer. The conservancy placed the property on the market in September for $13 million. The foundation was dissolved last fall.
The Windstar Land Conservancy was founded in 1996 by the Windstar Foundation and the Rocky Mountain Institute to own and manage the land Denver loved. The institute still operates an office on the property for about 20 employees.
According to the Aspen Times ( ), foundation officials want to use the money to help the institute achieve its goal of opening a state-of-the-art green office building in Basalt, which is about 18 miles northwest of Aspen.
The property in Old Snowmass is under contract to be sold to a private buyer. The conservancy placed the property on the market in September for $13 million. The foundation was dissolved last fall.
The Windstar Land Conservancy was founded in 1996 by the Windstar Foundation and the Rocky Mountain Institute to own and manage the land Denver loved. The institute still operates an office on the property for about 20 employees.
According to the Aspen Times ( ), foundation officials want to use the money to help the institute achieve its goal of opening a state-of-the-art green office building in Basalt, which is about 18 miles northwest of Aspen.
- 4/10/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Aspen, Colo. (Associated Press) -- A movement to name a mountain peak after the late John Denver has hit a snag.
The effort has gained momentum in recent weeks as thousands of people signed a petition to recognize the singer with a mountain near where he wrote his hit "Rocky Mountain High." Denver is a revered figure in Colorado - so much that it made "Rocky Mountain High" an official state song.
But the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports that the U.S. Board on Geographic Names says there are problems with the proposal. Board executive secretary Lou Yost says renaming the peak for Denver could be forbidden under a federal wilderness law.
The peak in question is on Mount Sopris, named after a man who led a prospecting expedition near the mountain.
The effort has gained momentum in recent weeks as thousands of people signed a petition to recognize the singer with a mountain near where he wrote his hit "Rocky Mountain High." Denver is a revered figure in Colorado - so much that it made "Rocky Mountain High" an official state song.
But the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports that the U.S. Board on Geographic Names says there are problems with the proposal. Board executive secretary Lou Yost says renaming the peak for Denver could be forbidden under a federal wilderness law.
The peak in question is on Mount Sopris, named after a man who led a prospecting expedition near the mountain.
- 8/8/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
"Frederick Wiseman has filmed subjects as institutionally complex as a state legislature and as socially diverse and geographically broad as entire towns (in Aspen and Belfast, Maine)." Leo Goldsmith at Not Coming to a Theater Near You: "His 38th film, by contrast, considers a comparatively small space, one that seems rather narrowly defined in its purpose, import, and range of activity. It is a boxing gym, not a great deal larger than the boxing ring it surrounds, but large enough to contain a small gradient of the population of Austin, Texas: women and men, professional and amateur, of varied ethnicities, classes, and professional and educational backgrounds, each engaged in the determined, grueling, rhythmic ritual of boxing.... What boxing, for the most part, is not — at least within the heavily padded and postered walls of Lord's gym — is a form of violence. If anything, it is a way of forestalling or...
- 10/10/2010
- MUBI
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