High School (1968) - A Review

This is a review of the Frederick Wiseman documentary. It's also a review of high school itself, I guess. I spent a lot of time writing on the walls and listening to my walkman, and reading in the library.

(Note to self: Recorded after munching on some root.)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• High
• School
• 1968
• Wiseman

[naterath]

that was not a review that was a mid life crisis.

[BrianInvincible]

Does anyone know where you can either watch or buy 'High School' online?

[incoqnito]

anyone find this guy just drones on way to much about nothing interesting?

[SystematicName]

no1cur broski

[BrianInvincible]

@notpetra Thanks a lot, I've been wanting to watch this film for well over a year. I had to reinstall DivX, but it worked fine after that. A truly exceptional documentary from a great director.

[notpetra]

@BrianInvincible stagevu.com/video/frkfbylehqnk but you need DivX I think...and DivX sucks. I'm about to watch it now though and it appears to be in working order.

[hairysista]

HEY mate, did you visit denmark recently? or are you still here? i think i served you 2 swaggers with brød in the meat packing district last weekend. amiright?

[Sirgreaseflick]

Much like High School ( and all of Wiseman's cinema verite-styled documentaries), you should check out a documentary called Streetwise (it's very rare, but has been uploaded on YouTube) It's a non-staged observation of street life: no celebrity narrators, no manipulative tricks, it's as close to street living that a viewer will ever get. Photographer Mary Ellen Mark is spot-on; director Martin Bell is refreshingly un-exploitative. A must-see. Maybe check it out and post a review?

[elementz1986]

Chest hair.

[regularjon]

Beardgasm.

[StrangerToEarth]

If Wiseman is good at showing 'just how stupid humanity is', then your reviews are good at showing how pretentious and violently dreary hipsters are.

Sure, high school is a vortex of hormones, broken condoms and fake heartbreak - but it's also life's acid test - painful, shattering, exhilarating, charged LIFE. Without that social crisis that molds you into the person you will spend the rest of your life as, you are a flapping deadbeat with a closet empty of skeletons because they were 'stupid'.

[peppermintsspice]

thanks for the pointless information there bud.