Essential Cinema: Frederick Wiseman: Eight Systems
CENTRAL PARK
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
USA, 1989, 3h 0min, DCP
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752
Pricing
$13.50 evening / $11 matinee (available M-F for shows before 6 PM)
$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.
Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.
“One of the most accessible and salutary films ever made by master documentarian Frederick Wiseman … CENTRAL PARK celebrates not the Earth but the 840 acres of it in the middle of Manhattan where New Yorkers retreat and repair and lapse into modes of behavior one might actually classify as civilized … Wiseman is one of the great filmmakers of our time.”
—Tom Shales, The Washington Post
After the heaviness of Frederick Wiseman’s LAW AND ORDER, viewers can enjoy a relaxing afternoon in Central Park as all manner of New Yorkers use the expansive facilities and the Parks Department maintains the spaces for public use. Newly restored.
