Wiseman Podcast

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023) with writer Julien Allen. 0:00:00: intro 135:17 : chat w/Allen wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Un Couple (2022) and all the Wiseman memorial pieces before talking about his legacy with filmmaker and critic Kent Jones. 0:00:00: intro 104:50 : chat w/Jones wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's City Hall (2020) with Jeff Griffith-Perham, associate film curator at BAMPFA. We also say our initial farewell thoughts to Fred Wiseman following his passing. 0:00:00: intro 127:07 : chat w/Griffth-Perham wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Monrovia, Indiana (2018) with programmer Dorota Lech. 0:00: intro 106:50: chat w/Lech wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017) with film critic Will Sloan. 0:00: intro 109:00: chat w/Sloan wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's In Jackson Heights (2015) with film critic Manohla Dargis. 0:00: intro 115:05: chat w/Dargis wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's National Gallery (2014) with film critic Philip Concannon. 0:00: intro 99:30: chat w/Concannon wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's At Berkeley (2013) with film critic K. Austin Collins. 0:00: intro 145:00:  chat w/Austin Collins wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Crazy Horse (2011) with filmmaker Nellie Kluz (The Dells). 0:00: intro 1:43:40: chat w/Kluz Shawn's interview about the Wiseman retrospective . wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Boxing Gym (2010) with *the* documentary scholar, Bill Nichols. 0:00: intro 1:19:30:  chat w/Nichols wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's La Danse (2009) with researcher JJ Bersch and archivist Matt St. John. 0:00: intro 1:18:55: chat w/Bersch & St. John wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's State Legislature (2007) with film critic Mark Asch. 0:00: intro 1:45:00: chat w/Asch wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's The Garden (2005) with Vadim Rizov, director of editorial operations at Filmmaker Magazine. 0:00: intro 1:21:33:  chat w/Rizov wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We chat with Jane Tolmachyov, colorist at Goldcrest Post, about the new restorations of 33 of Frederick Wiseman's films. We also talk in depth about the new monograph from Carolyn Anderson and Thomas Benson, Making Documentary Film: Frederick Wiseman and His Collaborators. 0:00: on Making Documentary Film 1: 09:33:  interview w/Tolmachyov The monograph can be downloaded here . Our guest episo...

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Domestic Violence 2 (2002) with programmer Max Carpenter. 0:00: intro 1:03:41: chat w/Carpenter wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's The Last Letter (2002).  wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Domestic Violence (2001) with filmmaker Sophy Romvari. 0:00: intro 1:24:00: chat w/Romvari wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk with Frederick Wiseman about the second era of his filmography (The Store - Belfast, Maine). wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Belfast, Maine (1999) with film critic and educator, Leo Goldsmith. 0:00: intro 1:32:29: chat w/Goldsmith wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Public Housing (1997) with Chicago-based programmer and critic Ben Sachs. 0:00: intro 24:00: contemporaneous discourse 1:37:15: Shawn & Arlin on Public Housing 2:14:00: chat w/Sachs

We talk Frederick Wiseman's La Comedie-Francaise ou L'amour joue (1996) with critic Kenji Fujishima. 0:00: intro 1:31:41 chat w/Fujishima wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Ballet (1995) with critic Sean Gilman. 0:00:00-1:13:55: intro 1:13:55-2:34:07: chat w/Gilman wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

Shawn and Arlin review Frederick Wiseman's new film, Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023).

We talk Frederick Wiseman's High School II (1994) with educator and film historian, Cynthia Lucia. 0:00:00-1:29:30: intro 1:29:31-3:34:57: chat w/Lucia wisemanpodcast@gmail.com

We talk Frederick Wiseman's Zoo (1993) with filmmaker Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven). 0:00:00-1:20:29: intro 1:20:30-2:36:08: chat w/Oppenheim wisemanpodcast@gmail.com