Andrew Scott shares a laugh with Claire Foy and Jamie Bell while stepping out for a weekend screening of their upcoming movie All of Us Strangers held at Vidiots Foundation – Eagle Theatre on Saturday (December 9) in Los Angeles.
22.11.2023 - 23:33 / variety.com
J. Kim Murphy 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 saw Bill Russell win the NBA Finals.
“I shared season tickets to the Celtics with a friend, so every other game I went and the others I watched on the telly. As the expression goes, I go way back with the Celtics,” Wiseman tells Variety over the phone. “I happened to be at the game where Russell scored with five seconds left that gave them the championship.
And I used to take my sons to the game.” In previous interviews, the 93-year-old filmmaker has expressed that he doesn’t watch much TV beyond basketball and tennis. Now spending his golden years in France, he confesses that the time difference doesn’t lend itself to regular Celtics viewing anymore. Another thing that Wiseman doesn’t watch: cooking videos.
Perhaps that’s why the director’s latest and 44th documentary, “Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros,” diverges from the sultry sizzle shots that have come to dominate food footage in the digital age. The film, which opens at Film Forum in New York on Wednesday before expanding to select markets, instead takes interest in process over product — the conceptualization of the cuisine, the generational passing of culinary traditions and the sometimes fussy, sometimes quixotic principles of the world of fine dining. “I have never seen another movie about a restaurant,” Wiseman says.
When asked if he sees that as coming into the project with purity, he chooses a different descriptor. “I come in ignorance. That’s all my
.Andrew Scott shares a laugh with Claire Foy and Jamie Bell while stepping out for a weekend screening of their upcoming movie All of Us Strangers held at Vidiots Foundation – Eagle Theatre on Saturday (December 9) in Los Angeles.
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