Frederick Wiseman’s film, 'Ex Libris – The New York Public Library', goes behind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world and reveals it as a place of welcome, cultural ...

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library, the 41st documentary feature by Frederick Wiseman, bears a close resemblance to its subject. It’s huge (197 minutes) and incredibly varied, with something new ...

Not a single person says "shhh!" during Frederick Wiseman's three-hour-plus tour of New York libraries. In fact, Ex Libris: New York Public Library immediately introduces garrulous author, scientist, ...

Frederick Wiseman, the prolific documentarian behind films like “Titicut Follies,” “At Berkeley,” “National Gallery” and “Ex Libris,” died on Monday. He was 96 years old. Wiseman’s death was announced ...

While the institution it examines is wonderfully, proudly for everyone, the documentary Ex Libris — The New York Public Library most certainly isn't. The 43rd film from 87-year-old award-winning ...

Since 1967, Frederick Wiseman has directed 46 documentaries—dramatic, narrative films that seek to portray ordinary human experience in a wide variety of contemporary social institutions. His films ...

If there were a Nobel Prize for documentary filmmaking, Frederick Wiseman would have won a long time ago. Not just because he’s talented (no guarantee of Stockholm gold), but because his work seems to ...

This month offers a tribute to the prolific filmmaker who died last week at 96 and has a plausible claim to being the greatest documentarian who ever lived. By Ben Kenigsberg For more than 50 years, ...

Non-fiction cinema is before and after Frederick Wiseman, an indisputable notion that loses no import with the news, made official by his own Zipporah Films, that the artist behind—let’s name just a ...

Frederick Wiseman's latest long-form doc shows the New York Public Library as a vibrant place of lectures, workshops and community outreach. Is there any other filmmaker who falls in love with ...