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Frederick Wiseman

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Revisiting Chicago’s Ida B. Wells Housing Project

Avatar photo by Shawn Glinis November 15, 2022November 15, 2022

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

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel October 29, 2020November 5, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Abbey Bender February 6, 2020September 16, 2020

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

by Daniel Felsenthal October 25, 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

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel April 19, 2018January 28, 2019

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

by Jon Hogan June 14, 2017

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

by Julia Friedman November 5, 2014

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.

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