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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh in a still from the documentary "City Hall." (Courtesy Zipporah Films, Inc) Shot all over Boston in the fall of 2018 and winter of 2019, it’s more municipal portraiture akin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...