How Frederick Wiseman Fulfilled a Lifelong Fantasy Making His Four-Hour French Restaurant Doc ‘Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros’
variety.comJ. 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.
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