“Filming in a kitchen is like working with a ballet or theater company,” the filmmaker told Hyperallergic in an interview for the release of his new film Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros.
Frederick Wiseman
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Revisiting Chicago’s Ida B. Wells Housing Project
Frederick Wiseman’s Public Housing shows how Clinton-era politics shaped the experiences of low-income Black communities in deindustrialized urban areas.
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How a City Government Works, According to Frederick Wiseman
The venerable documentarian’s latest, City Hall, is an epic look at the workings of local civics in Boston, Massachusetts.
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A Classic Film Reminds Us That Modeling Is Labor
The perfect movie for New York Fashion Week is 1981’s Model, Frederick Wiseman behind-the-scenes documentary on the industry.
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Frederick Wiseman Films the Humanity of a Midwestern Town in 2018
Monrovia, Indiana isn’t quite the scintillating investigation into life in a red state that audiences might expect.
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Stream Frederick Wiseman’s Documentaries for Free Via Libraries and Colleges Around the US
This week, almost 50 years’ worth of Wiseman documentaries went live on Kanopy, after a long period of his work being mostly inaccessible.
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Monkey Around with a Simian Cinema Series
Anthology Film Archives’ latest series explores fictional, factual, and farcical portrayals of monkeys in movies.
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A Museum Where the Paintings Look Back
National Gallery, which premiered last month at the New York Film Festival, is the most recent of Frederick Wiseman’s 40-plus documentaries that feature single institutions.
