Shots From the Canon #2: Frederick Wiseman’s ‘The Store’ (1983)

Written by Robert Greene

Frederick Wiseman is, of course, a permanent fixture in any documentary canon, but the films often cited as his best are the early masterpieces such as Titicut Follies and High School. Beginning with 1973’s Juvenile Court, however, Wiseman’s program of creating textured dramas through the uncanny observation of human institutions began to open up and ta…