Over the years, veteran documentarian Frederick Wiseman has covered what sometimes feels like almost kind of institution and every aspect of life in America (and occasionally, life abroad too). "Titicut Follies," "Juvenile Court," "Zoo," "Racetrack," "Central Park," "Public Housing," "Boxing Gym," a pair of movies focusing on teen education, and many, many more, he's covered the gamut. Now, aged 83, Wiseman, like Rodney Dangerfield before him, is going Back To School... Having already tackled "High School" some time back, the director has graduated with "At Berkeley," an expansive, lengthy (a touch over four hours) and totally brilliant film taking a look behind the scenes of California's legendary institutions, from the school's professors and administrative staff to the students of almost every stripe. Presented, as ever with the director's work, without narration, much in the way of score, or even on-screen captions, the film picks up at something of a crisis point in the.
- 11/8/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Over the years, veteran documentarian Frederick Wiseman has covered what sometimes feels like almost kind of institution and every aspect of life in America (and occasionally, life abroad too). "Titicut Follies," "Juvenile Court," "Zoo," "Racetrack," "Central Park," "Public Housing," "Boxing Gym," a pair of movies focusing on teen education, and many, many more, he's covered the gamut. Now, aged 83, Wiseman, like Rodney Dangerfield before him, is going Back To School... Having already tackled "High School" some time back, the director has graduated with "At Berkeley," an expansive, lengthy (a touch over four hours) and totally brilliant film taking a look behind the scenes of California's legendary institutions, from the school's professors and administrative staff to the students of almost every stripe. Presented, as ever with the director's work, without narration, much in the way of score, or even on-screen captions, the film picks up at something of a crisis point in the.
- 9/6/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Like all of Frederick Wiseman's films, his latest has a title that seems to say it all: "Boxing Gym" is basically an hour-and-a-half of sights and sounds from an Austin area boxing gym. As usual, though, there's more going on here. In presenting glimpses of different trainees - be they kids enjoying a fun sport, ordinary folks getting a workout, or actual fighters preparing for their next bout - "Boxing Gym" takes on a meditative quality, but that mesmerizing quality is eventually breached when the real-life violence of the Virginia Tech massacre thousands of miles away intrudes on the boxers' world and becomes a point of discussion.
The legendary director, whose films include such classics as "Titicut Follies," "High School," and "Public Housing," has made the exploration of the nature of American institutions his great artistic project, and the boxing gym is a manifestation of one way violence presents itself in ordinary American life,...
The legendary director, whose films include such classics as "Titicut Follies," "High School," and "Public Housing," has made the exploration of the nature of American institutions his great artistic project, and the boxing gym is a manifestation of one way violence presents itself in ordinary American life,...
- 10/22/2010
- by Bilge Ebiri
- ifc.com
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