Culture
A 3-Hour Love Letter to the New York Public Library
Frederick Wiseman’s joyful documentary film celebrates the local library branches as public space.
Before a recent screening of Ex Libris, the new film by octogenarian documentarian Frederick Wiseman, the chief branch librarian of the New York Public Library, Christopher Platt, stood in front of one of Film Forum’s darkened screens to say a few words.
“It's three hours of libraries,” Platt warned the crowd. (In fact, it’s even longer—three hours and 17 minutes.)