How Frederick Wiseman Fulfilled a Lifelong Fantasy Making His Four-Hour French Restaurant Doc ‘Menus-Plaisirs

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has filmed a lot of things — dismissive budget negotiations among UC Berkeley administrators, dead end conversations inside a New York welfare center, a live capuchin monkey being decapitated by scientists. But before he saw any of that, the Boston native…

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