The Store—Wisemania Film Series
THE STORE (Frederick Wiseman, 1983, 16mm, 118 mins)
"There's really one purpose to our being at Neiman Marcus, one grand purpose, and that's to make sales.” Wiseman’s first color film slips behind the polished façade of the upmarket chain’s Dallas flagship in the busy weeks leading up to Christmas ‘82, showing us how executives, salespeople, decorators, buyers, and models stage luxury and cultivate desire. This perceptive and playful look at consumer culture in Reagan-era America features Art Buchwald, Lady Bird Johnson, and a singing stripper in a chicken costume, among others. “An absorbing experience you won’t soon forget” (Sarah Wright). 16mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
"Wisemania" is a multi-year exploration of the works of documentarian Frederick Wiseman.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
"There's really one purpose to our being at Neiman Marcus, one grand purpose, and that's to make sales.” Wiseman’s first color film slips behind the polished façade of the upmarket chain’s Dallas flagship in the busy weeks leading up to Christmas ‘82, showing us how executives, salespeople, decorators, buyers, and models stage luxury and cultivate desire. This perceptive and playful look at consumer culture in Reagan-era America features Art Buchwald, Lady Bird Johnson, and a singing stripper in a chicken costume, among others. “An absorbing experience you won’t soon forget” (Sarah Wright). 16mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
"Wisemania" is a multi-year exploration of the works of documentarian Frederick Wiseman.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Where is it happening?
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L01, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT, United States
Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.
Host or PublisherYale Film Archive
