Saturday, January 2 | 2 p.m.
Sunday, January 3 | 5 p.m.
For the fortieth film of his legendary career, master American documentarian Frederick Wiseman (High School, National Gallery) turns his attention to the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, New York. Applying his signature, fly-on-the wall approach to documentary filmmaking—which eschews narrative exposition and on-camera interviews—Wiseman presents one of America’s most ethnically diverse communities in all its panoramic difference. In Jackson Heights showcases a place, a mere twenty minutes from Manhattan, where shops sell whole baby goats, undocumented immigrants find support after perilous border crossings, and prospective cabbies learn the hilarious ins and outs of driving in Brooklyn. For A. O. Scott of The New York Times, Wiseman’s latest is one of his “masterpieces” and is “an immersive celebration of democracy… [where] the ordinary rises to the level of poetry.”
Director Frederick Wiseman 2015 United States 190 minutes NR DCP
