Spent the better part of this afternoon at the Martha's Vineyard Film Center, watching Frederick Wiseman's latest documentary, Ex Libris, about the New York Public Library. My last Wiseman film was National Gallery.
Like Wiseman's other documentaries, Ex Libris is an immersive if not exhausting experience at three hours and seventeen minutes long. The challenges our public libraries face - financial and technological - are epic, and portrayed so well and thoroughly by Wiseman.
My favorite and local branch, the Jefferson Market Library, was a footnote, but accurately and playfully depicted.
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