DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

CHRISTY SLEWINSKI

Managing Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

Contributors

MONIQUE NAZARETH

NOEL HOLSTON

GERALD JORDAN

DAVID SICILIA

 
 
1990
Sep
21
 
 
I'm proud of this because, without any inkling of how popular, influential or resonant this documentary series would become - and without knowing that Ken Burns was about to become a household word - this review nailed what was best about The Civil War. Namely, historian Shelby Foote, filmmaker Burns' graceful visual approach, the poetry of the storytelling, and one soldier's unforgettable letter home in particular.
 
 
 
  
 
 
1990
Apr
30
 
 
But there's another reason I'm so proud of this review, and it's a long, behind-the-scenes story - two stories, actually. One fascinating element of the David Lynch-directed dream sequence was the odd way the "Man from Another Place," as the dancing midget was billed in the credits, spoke in Cooper's dream. The midget, like the Laura Palmer look-alike played by Sheryl Lee, seemed to be speaking a type of broken English...