Toronto: 'In Jackson Heights' Is Frederick Wiseman's Panorama of America

Donald Trump and his people would probably recoil from it, but Frederick Wiseman’s “In Jackson Heights” is a perfectly panoramic portrait of the new America – yearning, teeming, ambitious and teetering on the brink. Made in 2014, it is shot in Wiseman’s patented style – unapologetically direct, unadorned, narration-free and with an editing technique that lands you in each scene like you just jumped off an E train from JFK. It also tackles an unwieldy subject: Jackson Heights is possibly the most diverse, multicultural place on earth: 160-odd languages are spoken in the Queens neighborhood, if not necessarily in this movie. Wiseman, the grand old man of American documentary, is...

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