Frederick Wiseman turns his camera on the famed art museum in London's Trafalgar Square. About the only thing we aren't made privy to is the recorded audio that plays as visitors wander from Old Master to Old Master. Everything else — from PR strategy meetings, to framemakers, to restorers, to lighting directors, to docents lecturing on the works' making and meaning, to protestors making their mark on a landmark — is treated with Wiseman's characteristic (and appealing) immediacy. He knows how to get in and get out of the way. At three hours, the result is long but perhaps less exhausting than a visit to the actual gallery, because of how thoroughly the mind is engaged even as the senses are saturated. And while it's more a portrait than a pamphlet, the result nevertheless provides an eloquent argument for the enduring worth of all this old stuff. (2014) — Matthew Lickona
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