Frederick Wiseman
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman, US)
By Jay Kuehner | | CS97, Currency, From Cinema Scope Magazine
Given the stylistic consistency yet markedly disparate subject matter of his vast oeuvre to date, it is curious to consider what, if anything, constituted the precedent for his latest film, Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, a typically protracted look at an historically family-run restaurant near Lyon.
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Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman, France/US)
By Mark Peranson | | CS48, From Cinema Scope Magazine, Spotlight
By Mark Peranson Over the last decade, I’ve realized that Frederick Wiseman devotees are incapable of critical thinking when it comes to their master. They fail to see (or refuse to acknowledge) that in composing his career-long grand narrative analysis, Wiseman sometimes loses sight of the particularities of the institution under observation; at times, he’s…
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By cscope2 | | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2011
Cinema Scope 48 Preview: Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman, France/US)—Real to Reel By Mark Peranson Over the last decade, I’ve realized that Frederick Wiseman devotees are incapable of critical thinking when it comes to their master. They fail to see (or refuse to acknowledge) that in composing his career-long grand narrative analysis, Wiseman sometimes loses sight…
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