2020 visions
As we kick 2020 to the curb and desperately yearn for ordinary times, I hope we will hold on to some of the surprising small mercies around Boston that have vindicated this sad, surreal year.
By Renée Loth Contributor,Updated December 31, 2020, 3:00 a.m.
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Restaurant-goers enjoy dinner on an outdoor patio at Terramia Ristorante in September. The North End never felt so European.Erin Clark / Globe Staff
Iâve been watching the Frederick Wiseman documentary âCity Hall,â about the earnest mundanities of municipal government, set right here in Boston. The city looks great in the film: the old and new architecture; the waterfront; the beautiful, multicultural faces. Itâs strange, and poignant, to watch Bostonians filmed in the months before the coronavirus pandemic, blithely crowding into airless meeting rooms or hugging at a food bankâs Thanksgiving dinner. I even grew nostalgic watching a traffic officer write out parking tick
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Premieres Tuesday, December 22 on PBS
PBS will present the broadcast premiere of Frederick Wiseman’s CITY HALL on Tuesday, December 22, 8:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. The film will also stream simultaneously on PBS.org and the PBS Video App.
The 45
th film from Wiseman, “City Hall” immerses audiences in the municipality of his hometown of Boston to illustrate a government taking care of its diverse citizens. Through his filmmaking, audiences come to realize how city government touches upon almost every aspect of their lives, acknowledging how necessary services like sanitation, veterans affairs, elder support, parks, licensing bureaus, record keeping, as well as a myriad of other activities that support the citizenry, are often taken for granted.
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First grade student Landon Freytag, of Newton, Mass., right, walks with his mom, Kira, rear, and younger brother Declan as school is released for the day outside the Saint Columbkille Partnership School, a Catholic school, on Dec. 18, 2020, in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston.
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Maura Healey talked about the state’s Police Reform bill, respondin to questions about the efficacy of facial recognition technology and no-knock warrants. She also discussed her office s plan to ask the federal Department of Homeland Security to end its partnership with the Bristol County Sheriff s office over news about a violent altercation that took place between deputies and immigration detainees in May, and she responded to questions from listeners as part of our monthly series “Ask The AG.” Healey is the Massachusetts attorney general.
Quick Read By Peter Rainer Special correspondent
Do I miss seeing films in big theaters on a big screen with a big audience? You bet I do. But those days will return.
My initial concerns of a famished 2020 movie year were vastly exaggerated: After the pandemic began, a large backlog of small-scale, independent movies transitioned fairly smoothly to the home screen. The big studios had a rougher time of it: Many movies have been pushed well into next year.
Why We Wrote This
This year, movie watching moved largely from theaters to living rooms â where it may stay for some time. Monitor film critic Peter Rainer surveyed the landscape and offers his top choices for armchair watching.
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