The Films of Frederick Wiseman: The Store (4K Restoration)

The Store

USA | 1983 | 118 min. | Frederick Wiseman

April 27 - May 7, 2025

The Films of Frederick Wiseman | Presented by SIFF and The Beacon

Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes cameras inside a Neiman Marcus store and its corporate headquarters in Dallas.

The Store is a film about the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas. The sequences in the film include the selection, presentation, marketing, pricing, advertising and selling of a vast array of consumer products including designer clothes and furs, jewelry, perfumes, shoes, electronic products, sportswear, china and porcelain and many other goods. The internal management and organizational aspects of a large corporation are shown, i.e., sales meetings, development of marketing and advertising strategies, training, personnel practices and sales techniques.

  • Director: Frederick Wiseman
  • Country: USA
  • Year: 1983
  • Running Time: 118 min.
  • Producer: Frederick Wiseman
  • Editors: Frederick Wiseman
  • Filmography: Titicut Follies (1967), Law and Order (1969), Hospital (1970), Juvenile Court (1973), Primate (1974), Welfare (1975), National Gallery (2014), In Jackson Heights (2015), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023)
  • Language: English
  • US Distributor: mTuckman media, inc.