Boxing Gym
First screened in January 2019
Director: Frederick Wiseman. Documentary about the management, clientele, facilities, and training regimens at Richard Lord's boxing gym in Austin, Texas.

Twitter Capsule: Site doesn't teem with hidden dimensions. Are repetition, enclosure the point? Evocative, but other Wisemans dig deeper.

VOR:   Most interesting turn comes as news arrives of mass violence in Virginia; you see how a sealed-off place handles a dispatch from otherwise. Otherwise familiar.



Photo © 2010 Zipporah Films

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B


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