Looking back on this still-young century makes clear that 2007 was a major time for cinematic happenings — and, on the basis of this retrospective, one we’re not quite through with ten years on. One’s mind might quickly flash to a few big titles that will be represented, but it is the plurality of both festival and theatrical premieres that truly surprises: late works from old masters, debuts from filmmakers who’ve since become some of our most-respected artists, and mid-career turning points that didn’t necessarily announce themselves as such at the time. Join us as an assembled team, many of whom were coming of age that year, takes on their favorites.
Frederick Wiseman is so acquainted with the warp and woof of the American texture that his document of the 2004 session of Idaho’s state legislature also serves as a densely layered tome on the history of democracy in modernity.
Frederick Wiseman is so acquainted with the warp and woof of the American texture that his document of the 2004 session of Idaho’s state legislature also serves as a densely layered tome on the history of democracy in modernity.
- 5/15/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Like all of Frederick Wiseman's films, his latest has a title that seems to say it all: "Boxing Gym" is basically an hour-and-a-half of sights and sounds from an Austin area boxing gym. As usual, though, there's more going on here. In presenting glimpses of different trainees - be they kids enjoying a fun sport, ordinary folks getting a workout, or actual fighters preparing for their next bout - "Boxing Gym" takes on a meditative quality, but that mesmerizing quality is eventually breached when the real-life violence of the Virginia Tech massacre thousands of miles away intrudes on the boxers' world and becomes a point of discussion.
The legendary director, whose films include such classics as "Titicut Follies," "High School," and "Public Housing," has made the exploration of the nature of American institutions his great artistic project, and the boxing gym is a manifestation of one way violence presents itself in ordinary American life,...
The legendary director, whose films include such classics as "Titicut Follies," "High School," and "Public Housing," has made the exploration of the nature of American institutions his great artistic project, and the boxing gym is a manifestation of one way violence presents itself in ordinary American life,...
- 10/22/2010
- by Bilge Ebiri
- ifc.com
Dennis Lim introduces an interview for the New York Times: "Of the 30-plus documentaries Frederick Wiseman has made in his fortysomething-year career, most are portraits of institutions, peeling back the official veneer to reveal the human interactions within. Having recently tackled large, complex organizations like the Idaho Senate and House (State Legislature, 2006) and the Paris Opera Ballet (La Danse, 2009), Mr Wiseman, 80, now turns his attention to a comparatively modest subject: a neighborhood boxing gym in Austin, Tex."...
- 5/27/2010
- MUBI
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