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While the economy plunges downwards faster than Ruben Studdard skydiving, arts funding tumbles with it, victims of their own dependency on corporate sponsorships rather than the public’s actual support. While this may sound tragic, perhaps the resulting depression, literal and emotional, provides an opportunity to re-evaluate the worthiness of some projects and the contributions of their creators. I, for one, find solace in the earth-bound spiral of one filmmaker equipped, apparently, with leaden — not golden — parachute. Watch today’s THINK piece for the identity of this unfortunate soul. Then, register your own ideas for who else might fall head-first.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Yeah, I liked that Civil War, episode 1, but you think Burns would have grown stylistically over the last 20 years. I would pay to see him do something in his style that would be patently absurd though, like “Larry Clark’s Teenage Lust: A Film by Ken Burns”. As it is, he just reinforces myths and illusions about American history that are a bunch of horseshit, and by that I mean Larry Clark, of course. I saw Oklahoma, its not filled with a bunch of speed freaks, “Buying Crack in Tulsa: A Film by Ken Burns”. Anyway, it’s funny how as the ability to make documentaries has gotten cheaper and cheaper, allowing documentarians to shift more of their expenses away from production, Burns’ has been making movies that get ever more expensive. That bloat shows. Maybe he will turn into some crazy old man posting YouTube videos of some stranger’s family photo’s, “The Confiscated Collections of PeeWee Herman: A Film by Ken Burns”.