Gerald Peary's cinema articles have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Boston Globe, and in film periodicals around the world, including Film Comment, Cineaste, and Sight and Sound.

F R E D E R I C K W I S E M A N By RICHARD COVINGTON nearly 30 years ago, documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman shocked audiences with an unflinching expos&eacute of the brutalities of a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane. Only recently has the long-standing ban on the film Titicut Follies been lifted in the state. Since his first film, the former law school professor has turned ...