RIP Train: Frederick Wiseman's EX LIBRIS: THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (2017)
(Fittingly, one of the very few films by Wiseman available via my inter-library loan system on DVD... though damn it, this starts with a Richard Dawkins jump-scare! I used to like that guy's work a lot, but that was way back in my youth of my... early 20s. Sigh. And what we know now that we didn't in 2017. Anyway!) (On artists taking from the NYPL picture collections) "Andy Warhol stole lots of stuff from us." You don't say! (Lincoln Center host): "We share the Library's mission of being a warm, welcoming place that's committed to education and committed to nurturing everyone's passions and curiosity." And there it is in a nutshell with Wiseman's remarkable and perfectly curious film, which is that he welcomes us into this world and shows what it means to be passionate and curious about any great range of subjects first and foremost. Wiseman was for his entire career about probing through his lens and his choices in showing how systems w...
