City Hall
Exhilarating and exasperating in equal measures, 'City Hall' coheres into a rich tapestry of Boston in argument with itself.
City Hall
City government touches almost every aspect of our lives. Most of us are unaware of or take for granted these necessary services such as police, fire, sanitation, veterans affairs, elder support, parks, licensing of various professional activities, record keeping of birth, marriage and death as wells as hundreds of other activities that support Boston residents and visitors. CITY HALL, by Frederick Wiseman, shows the efforts by Boston city government to provide these services. The film also illustrates the variety of ways the city administration enters into civil discourse with the citizens of Boston. Mayor Walsh and his administration are presented addressing a number of their policy priorities which include racial justice, affordable housing, climate action, and homeless. CITY HALL shows a city government successfully offering a wide variety of services to a diverse population.
Genre
Documentary,
Politics,
Greg's List
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Runtime
272
Language
English
Director
Frederick Wiseman
FEATURED REVIEW
Eric Kohn, Indiewire
Every Frederick Wiseman movie starts like a dare. Though the 90-year-old documentary legend has been chronicling social institutions ever since 1967’s “Titicut Follies,” many of his projects casually drift through three or four hours of dense, layered portraits following the people behind vast ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 10.30.20 - 12.03.20
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