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Frederick Wiseman On the Complex Tapestry of ‘In Jackson Heights’

Written by Jamie Maleszka

Nov 04, 2015
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Frederick Wiseman isn’t interested in generalities. For decades, the now 85-year-old master of American documentary has been weaving nuanced, dramatic narratives from the multiplicity of ordinary human experience — without once purporting to have any of the answers.

Long heralded, and rightfully so, as “cinema’s master analyst of institutions” — social, …

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