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| Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (September 2006) |
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| No artist in the second half of the 20th century was more famous, or misunderstood, than Andy Warhol. Burns' "splendid, searching" film (Entertainment Weekly) is the first to explore his astonishing artistic output from the late 1940s to his untimely death in 1987. Obsessed with fame and a desire to transcend his origins, Warhol grasped the realities of modern society and became the high priest of one of the most radical experiments in American culture, penetrating the barrier between art and commerce. "Entirely absorbing," raved The New York Times. (Source: PBS.org) |
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| NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM directed and co-written by Ric Burns |
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| Called "a breathtaking masterpiece of history televsion," by The Los Angeles Times, "one of the best documentaries
you will ever see," by The Chicago Tribune and "documentary filmmaking at its best," by The Wall Street Journal, Burns' eight-part, seventeen-and-a-half-hour Emmy Award-winning documentary film chronicles the city's remarkable rise from a tiny Dutch trading post on the edge of the world to its pre-eminence today as the economic and cultural capital of the world ù and the supreme laboratory of modern life. "Burns," said Variety "has delivered a monumental documentary series that raises the bar for this kind of work and in the process elevates our knowledge and understanding of a metropolis." |
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| EUGENE O'NEIL: A Documentary Film Directed & Co-Written by Ric Burns |
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| Burns' haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright ù set within the
context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped O'Neill, and that O'Neill in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art. More than a biography of the greatest literary genius the American theater has produced, Burns' film is a moving meditation on loss and redemption, family and memory, the cost of being an artist, and the inescapability of the past. |
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New York: The Center of the World
Directed and Co-Written by Ric Burns |
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| In this eigth episode of his award-winning series, NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM, Burns chronicles the rise and fall of the World Trade Center, whose epic fifty-year history sheds new light on every theme and issue in the city's long march to the center of the world. The episode comes to a climax with the harrowing events of September 11, 2001 — and the extraordinary response of the city's people to the worst crisis in their history. (Source: PBS) |
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| Ansel Adams: A Film Written & Directed by Ric Burns |
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| Called "visually stunning," by Variety and "fascinating," by The New York Times, Ansel Adams is Burns' elegant, moving and lyrical portrait of this most eloquent and quintessentially American of photographers and ardent environmentalists ù for whom life and art, photography and wilderness, creativity and communication, love and expression,
were inextricably connected. The Christian Science Monitor called it "a remarkable TV documentary," adding, "[Burns] attains a kind of 'you are there' intimacy." Newsweek said, "Burns gives us a glimpse into Adams' soul." Winner of The Alfred I. DuPont Columbia silver baton, the film won a News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Cultural & Artistic Programming. |
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| New York: An Illustrated History (By Ric Burns and James Sanders) |
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| This final chapter of the acclaimed series NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM provides a powerful portrait of the events leading up to and following 9/11, reaching back to when the idea of a "world trade center" was first conceived and the towers were constructed. Burns and Sanders explore the physical, economic, and symbolic aftermath of the attack-and what Americans can learn from the recovery effort. Publishers Weekly called it "an engaging and intelligent work in its own right, presenting a coherent overview without ever glossing over thorny historical or political questions," and said, "By supplementing their well-researched text with photographs, paintings, newspaper headlines and interviews with historians and social critics, Burns and Sanders have produced a volume that is as attractive as it is perceptive." (Source: PBS) |
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| the Donner Party: A Film Written & Directed By Ric Burns |
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| In this haunting film, Burns tells the story of the ill-fated party of pioneers and their doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival, The Donner PartyÆs nightmarish journey penetrated to the very heart of the American Dream at a crucial phase of the nationÆs ômanifest destiny. Touching some of the most powerful social, economic and political currents of the time, this extraordinary narrative remains one of the most compelling and enduring episodes to come out of the West. "This documentary has gathered a surprising harvest of photos, notes and drawings in order to tell the pioneers' story," wrote All Movie Guide in their review. |
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