PBS’s Ken Burns honestly needs no introduction from me, but I love his analysis of what makes great storytelling. For him it boils down to 1+1=3. My mother had cancer all of my life, she died when I was 11, there wasn’t a moment from when I wasn’t aware — two-and-a-half, three — that there [...]
Ken Burns
In his latest documentary, Ken Burns tackles America’s prohibition against alcohol. Might make for a nice companion piece to HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. [via cynical-c]
This pitch-perfect Ken Burns parody is perhaps, the best thing you will see all week. The Old Negro Space Program approaches a level of comedy high-art that we haven’t seen from the internets in some time. ‘Retired’ black astronauts recall the feats and derring dos of the do it yourself African-American space program from the [...]
I’d just like to reiterate Jim’s recommendation for the new Ken Burns documentary series The War. There is a tiny group of documentarians who seem to always bat a thousand. Bud Greenspan, who does the bio sketches of Olympic athletes during the Games and the film summaries after, Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA, American Dream), [...]
