Critical Essay by Robert Hatch
As far as content is concerned, Mr. Wiseman is relentlessly explicit [in Titicut Follies]. His documentation amply confirms what one had suspected—that Bridgewat...
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Critical Essay by E. Michael Desilets
Titicut Follies is a very important film because its impact touches areas of law regarding private rights and public rights, and the final legal fate of the film...
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Critical Essay by Robert Coles
Ironically [Titicut Follies] is so effective because it is not another Snake Pit, another brutal and unrelenting exposé of life behind the closed doors of a ment...
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Critical Essay by Nancy Ellen Dowd
The editing patterns in Titicut Follies are the unheralded and monstrous discoveries in the small of the mind. Two men become one, and two unrelated incidents form ...
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Critical Essay by Paul Bradlow
[Wiseman's] technique [in Titicut Follies] is that of the avantgarde direct cinema. Homo homini lupus—man is a wolf to man. The text could have many names...
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I must acknowledge from the outset that the mostly derisive reviews of John Maybury's The Jacket placed it very low on my reviewing priority list-until my astute Freudian-auteurist friend, Stephen ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Hatch
Adrien Brody's The Jacket Asks: Are We Really Sane or Insane?
