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:③
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.
