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Displaying all articles tagged:
Ken Burns
vulture sports
May 1, 2020
Ken Burns Is Not Here for ESPN’s Michael Jordan Doc,
The Last
Dance
“I find it the opposite direction of where we need to be going.”
By
Halle Kiefer
vulture sports
Mar. 15, 2020
Ken Burns Revives Sports, Lets You Stream His Epic
Baseball
Documentary for Free
Peanuts and Cracker Jacks not included.
By
Devon Ivie
peter coyote
Sept. 24, 2019
The Golden Voice Behind All Those Ken Burns Documentaries
If you’ve ever been entranced by the narration of a Ken Burns doc, you have Peter Coyote to thank.
By
Tim Greiving
country music
Sept. 17, 2019
The Story of Country Music Is Too Vast for Even Ken Burns’s 16-Hour Doc to Tell
The greatest compliment you could pay an undertaking like this is to wish there were more of it.
By
Craig Jenkins
tv review
Sept. 13, 2019
Ken Burns’s
Country Music
Is Powerful, Beautiful, and Somehow Still Incomplete
The 16-hour, eight-part series doesn’t have as firm a handle on the big-picture stuff as it wants you to think.
By
Matt Zoller Seitz
Sept. 29, 2017
The Vietnam War
Is a Staggering Achievement in Documentary Storytelling
The 18-hour nonfiction epic is a thorough, engrossing dive into history.
By
Matt Zoller Seitz
documentaries
Aug. 28, 2017
Ken Burns Wants to Make an Obama Documentary
“It would just be him. And then, in ten years, we’d add all the other things.”
By
Jackson McHenry
Jan. 15, 2017
Ken Burns Talks of a New
Baseball
Doc
“I’m sort of obligated.”
By
Emma Barrie
scores
Jan. 12, 2017
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross Scoring Ken Burns Doc
The ten-part doc premieres on PBS in September.
By
Dee Lockett
last night on late night
Apr. 12, 2016
See Ken Burns’s Merciless Ken Burns
It’s a joke about his name!
By
Nate Jones
last night on late night
Apr. 8, 2016
Mindy Kaling Shares Stephen Colbert Bloopers
Literal church giggles.
By
Halle Kiefer
Apr. 8, 2016
Stephen Colbert Instantly Falls for Mindy Kaling, Tituss Burgess, and Ken […]
Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert heads over to the craft services table before the show and meets his Mindy […]
By
Megh Wright
the history channel
Sept. 19, 2014
Ken Burns and the Myth of Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy wasn’t quite the man the PBS series makes him out to be.
By
Michael Wolraich
tv review
Sept. 18, 2014
TV Review: Ken Burns’s
The Roosevelts
The seven-part series debuted Sunday night.
By
Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review
Apr. 15, 2014
TV Review: Ken Burns’s Documentary
The Address
Airing tonight on PBS.
By
Matt Zoller Seitz
Mar. 27, 2014
Ken Burns Made a Short Documentary About Eugene Mirman
Here’s a mini-documentary that Ken Burns made about Eugene Mirman for Hampshire College, a school they both attended. Watch Ken Burns bring […]
By
Bradford Evans
miniseries
Jan. 20, 2014
Ken Burns Country Music Doc Coming to PBS in ’18
Mark your calendar for four years from now!
By
Margaret Lyons
free speech
Nov. 12, 2013
Stephen Colbert vs. Louis C.K.: Who Gettysburg Addresses Better?
Or maybe Usher beats ‘em both.
By
Jesse David Fox
history
Jan. 25, 2013
Tom Hanks, Ken Burns Joining Forces
For a miniseries about Jack Johnson.
By
Margaret Lyons
movies
Nov. 18, 2012
Ken Burns Fights City Hall Over His New Film on the Central Park Jogger Case
“It’s really about letting people get to know the Central Park Five as individuals.”
By
Boris Kachka
tv review
Nov. 16, 2012
TV Review: Ken Burns’s
The Dust Bowl
Ken Burns’s astounding documentary is about disaster and survival, yes. But mostly it’s about clouds and faces.
By
Matt Zoller Seitz
pbs
July 23, 2012
Ken Burns Is Making a Roosevelt Documentary
With Meryl Streep as the voice of Eleanor.
By
Margaret Lyons
ken burns
May 18, 2012
Listen to Ken Burns’s Thoughts on Storytelling
More like “Ken Burns’s Thoughts on Basically Everything.”
By
Eliot Glazer
pbs
Apr. 12, 2012
Ken Burns’s
Dust Bowl
Doc Will Air in November
[
Slow pan across depress-o-ville photos
.]
By
Margaret Lyons
beef
Dec. 8, 2010
Ken Burns Really Hates Reality TV
“What I reject is the idea that this has any intrinsic value whatsoever other than voyeurism.”
By
Willa Paskin
vulture recommends
Oct. 15, 2010
This Week on Vulture Recommends: New Picks From Vampire Weekend, Ken Burns, Nicole Krauss, Jason Moran, and Our Critics
Wouldn’t it be nice to have TV-doc legend Ken Burns pick the best baseball movies, or recent National Book Award nominee Nicole Krauss select the best confessionals?
By
Logan Hill
Oct. 1, 2010
Exhausted Ken Burns Urges Baseball To Stop
The Onion, Exhausted Ken Burns Urges Baseball To Stop: “‘I can’t do this anymore,’ Burns said. ‘The more baseball that is played, the more I […]
By
Adam Frucci
late shifting
Jan. 22, 2010
Jimmy Kimmel Valiantly Continues His Assault on Jay Leno, Ken Burns Style
This is easily the most riveting documentary we’ve seen since ‘Man on Wire.’
By
Mark Graham
quote machine
July 12, 2007
Stephen Colbert Isn’t Into Libraries (And So Can You!)
Plus Ken Burns, Evan Rachel Wood, and Kelly Clarkson!