Frederick Wiseman, the filmmaker who didn’t shy away from the weird and the mundane, is dead at 96. Wiseman made dozens of documentaries, and his films weren’t exactly thrill rides. But they were honest, and that’s what made them stick.

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What’s the Big Deal? Director Ira Sachs decided to adapt a transcript of writer Linda Rosenkrantz’s interview about an average day in the life of photographer Peter Hujar. That’s right, an entire film based on a single conversation. A Single

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