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Wiseman caused instant controversy with his first film, "Titicut Follies," which remains one of his most famous documentaries, shot in 1967 and capturing the bleak reality of an asylum for the mentally ill, Bridgewater.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Appeared in the November 14, 2025, print edition as 'The Epstein Follies Return'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Wainwright, the Bafta-winning writer from Huddersfield, said she'd always wanted to write something as a sort of tribute to the 1970s musical drama Rock Follies.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025

Its first Follies in 1926 featured “a riot of song and dance,” with seats going for 50 cents to $3.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2024

Staring out to sea, tobacco farmers imagined themselves as race car drivers, silk dyers as Wall Street tycoons, millinery girls as fan dancers in the Ziegftid Follies.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides