The commentators and storytellers here are nearly all famous musicians. In Country Music, it’s the more progressive end of the Nashville establishment (plus, benignly but absurdly, more Marsalis). In Jazz, that was Wynton Marsalis and the small brain trust of musicians and thinkers around him at the then-new Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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And sometimes, his team can be truly innovative: for instance, when 2017’s Vietnam War series afforded serious screen time to veterans from the Vietnamese forces along with American vets and antiwar activists.Īs a generalist, Burns is prone to swallowing whole the perspectives of the participants and experts he’s taken with. His signature style, including its “Ken Burns effect” of zooming and panning across still photographs, has become laughably overfamiliar, but it remains an effective time machine. His Name Was Ted Bundy.Īs a much less accomplished worker in the pastures of nonfiction, I have to credit producer-director Ken Burns for his range and output across the past four decades through documentary films and series that convey elusive American histories to broad audiences. What Americans Are Missing About Hannah Gadsby’s Controversial Picasso Exhibitĥ0 Years Ago, the Woman Who Would Usher in the True-Crime Boom Befriended Her Co-Worker. “The Hottest Comic in America” Is Also a Conservative Hack
Ten Years Ago, Megyn Kelly Decided I Should Be a Fox News Segment.
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