Film
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
- Director
- Frederick Wiseman
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 197 mins
Veteran documentarian (he’s 88, you know) Frederick Wiseman turns his attention to the New York Public Library, exploring all aspects of its work, in a film that won the FIPRESCI award at the Venice Film Festival.
If you’re a newcomer to Wiseman’s studies of great American institutions, be warned that he takes a very leisurely approach (that running length is not a misprint) and doesn’t bother with explanatory captions or background information, preferring to simply show what goes on in fly-on-the-wall style.
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