Every Frederick Wiseman movie starts like a dare. Though the 90-year-old documentary legend has been chronicling social institutions ever since 1967’s “Titicut Follies,” many of his projects casually ...

Wiseman’s City Hall specifically trains its eye on Boston under the leadership of Democratic Mayor Marty Walsh, in 2019. It is not a study of the mayor alone, but rather of how a city and all of its ...

Nobody makes documentaries quite like Frederick Wiseman. He doesn’t interview his subjects; he doesn’t provide on-screen identification for who’s talking; he doesn’t use any non-diegetic music. What ...

So, when 90-year-old Wiseman set out to make his most recent documentary focusing on Boston local government called “City Hall,” which begins screening at Image Cinema’s virtual cinema on Friday, Nov.

Exclusive: IndieWire premieres the trailer for the documentary master's sprawling look at the municipal government in his hometown. “Titicut Follies,” “High School,” “Ex Libris,” “In Jackson Heights,” ...

Documentary master Frederick Wiseman ('In Jackson Heights') films his native town of Boston in his latest nonfiction feature, 'City Hall,' which premiered in Venice. By Jordan Mintzer At a time when ...

Running over four and a half hours, this documentary on Boston mayor Marty Walsh's administration is a testing but rewarding study of democracy in action. It’s been seven years since the Boston ...

The legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has released his latest project — “City Hall” a four-½ hour look at the inner workings of Boston City Hall. Wiseman, 90, the recipient of numerous ...

Frederick Wiseman has made a career out of exploring specific institutions in depth in each of his films. For his latest, City Hall, he followed the workings of the city government of Boston, ...

Listen closely to all the meetings, public gatherings and one-on-one sit-downs that play out in “City Hall,” Frederick Wiseman’s beautifully expansive Boston symphony, and you’ll hear a gentle but ...

TIFF: 90-year-old documentary legend Frederick Wiseman delivers another sprawling and enlightening work at the way society is supposed to work. Every Frederick Wiseman movie starts like a dare. Though ...