Posted on 09/07/2014 7:43:57 PM PDT by Borges
The film-maker's 14-hour marathon has a psychological subtlety and depth unprecedented on television.
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It's Ken Burns's documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, a masterpiece even by his standards. The Civil War (1990) was hailed as the best series of its kind since The World at War. In a way, it was even more impressive since the absence of moving images meant that Burns had to rely entirely on photographs – an inventive necessity that has become one of his trademarks.
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Yeah, well. I’ll be missing it.
I can only imagine the lefty bias in that one
a former manager of mine maintained a Roosevelt shrine in his office at DEC.
to him the man was a god.
Let the fabian lovefest begin.
The Dyke and the commie: A love story of deception.
Does Burns know that the Roosevelts were 100% in the 1%?
As a kid I never figured out why my old man hated Roosevelt so much. And never a kind word for JFK. He never talked about politics either.
I guess he wanted me to figure it out for myself, which I finally did (coming of age during the Reagan years).
I could watch 13.75 hours of Teddy hunting out west, fighting at San Juan Hill, and exploring the Amazon.
TR was a fascinating man.
Probably the only person who will ever win both the Medal of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize. BTW he really earned the peace prize, negotiating an end to the Russo/Japanese War.
Of slowly scanned photographs while a narrator drones on. I think the military just came up with a substitute for waterboarding.
Ken Burns makes Liberace look like Hulk Hogan.
Tolstoy was the Torture of Choice before Waterboarding ... Waterboarding is not as inhumane and has never been fatal.
TT
Ken Burns is our greatest documentary filmmaker.
His highly regarded “Civil War” set new standards for documentaries.
Visually, stylistically and in terms of substance it broke new ground. It was awesome.
One had a feel for a monumental period of American history that no movie has come close to telling. Its a national treasure.
Hate FDR and ugly Ellie.
Teddy is overrated.
Ken Burns FAR overrated. Boring series ALWAYS tinged with a good helping of how racially horrible we are. Really don’t like the SOB.
Ken Burns will somehow just somehow work in how black people worship FDR while he plays some blues and throws in photos of black baseball players.
FDR kinda looks like Bill Clinton
lol - ken burns lovefest on FR - did you get the Dvd set with your NPR contribution
From Wikipedia. I’ll be missing it, too.
In August 2009, Kennedy died, and Burns produced a short
eulogy video at his funeral. In endorsing Barack Obama for
the U.S. presidency in December 2007, Burns compared Obama
to Abraham Lincoln.[13] He said he had planned to be a
regular contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann on
Current TV.
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