Every Frederick Wiseman documentary that I’ve seen to date has … something. It isn’t easy to define. But his films, which are often long — his newest feature, City Hall (streaming online via Film Forum’s virtual cinema), runs a stark four-and-a-half hours — offer it in abundance. Moments, faces, images, or interactions which, like uppercuts out of nowhere, penetrate the straightforward, direct style of Wiseman’s filmmaking to throw us viewers off balance, rejigger our understanding of the subject at hand, nag at us for years afterward. These moments are hardly limited to outright violence.
- 11/10/2020
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
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