“I like to think I know what works for me… I’ve learned to be quite hard on the material… Editing is always a manic-depressive special—moments when you overestimate what you have and moments when you underestimate, but neither is usually true.” — Frederick Wiseman*
Wiseman—one of our greatest documentarians—will talk about his new film MONROVIA, INDIANA this week at the 56th New York Film Festival.
The following weekend Wiseman will join Richard Brody (author of Cinema is Everything: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard) in conversation at The New Yorker Festival.
Sunday, September 30, at noon.
Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, New York City.
Monday, October 1, at 6:30 pm.
Howard Gilman Theater, 144 West 65th Street, New York City.
FREDERICK WISEMAN IN CONVERSATION—NYFF LIVE TALK
Monday, October 1, at 7 pm.
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater, 144 West 65th Street, New York City.
FREDERICK WISEMAN TALKS WITH RICHARD BRODY
Saturday, October 6, at 10 am.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, New York City.
*Paris Review interview
Frederick Wiseman. Photograph by Corbin Smith.