006. Frederick Wiseman: City Hall, In Jackson Heights & Titicut Follies

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English - January 30, 2021 05:20 - 1 hour - 90.1 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
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This is it, the big one. We're covering not one, not two, but THREE Frederick Wiseman documentaries: Titicut Follies (1967), In Jackson Heights (2015), and Cahiers du Cinéma's TOP FILM of 2020: City Hall (2020).

We talk about our favorite scenes, the pleasures of watching how things work , and why we insist on calling the director of these seminal works "Mr. Wiseman".

These three films have a combined runtime of 546 minutes but we promise you watching just one of these will be worth it. These are fly-on-the-wall documentaries of daily life in different institutions so there'll be no spoiler warning for the episode, but we can convince you to give living legend Mr. Wiseman some of your time, if you haven't already.

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