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Committing yourself for 12 hours to any TV production is a big deal. But before you decide you don’t have the time for Ken Burns’ new multipart documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” consider just giving it a 30-minute tryout. Watch the first half hour Sunday on PBS, and I bet you will become hooked on one of the best and most rewarding viewing experiences of the TV year. This is a film with both beauty and brains — it is gorgeous to look at, it will make you think and possibly even stir your soul. A history of the nation’s great parks might not sound as hot and toe-tappingly transgressive as the saga of jazz or as action-packed and heart-rending as the Civil War, two American narratives that Burns has explored in landmark films for public television. But the parks have their own power, and part of it comes from a visual glory that neither of those other two topics inherently held. And Burns, both as director and one of four cinematographers, embraces that spectacular
Committing yourself for 12 hours to any TV production is a big deal. But before you decide you don’t have the time for Ken Burns’ new multipart documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” consider just giving it a 30-minute tryout. Watch the first half hour Sunday on PBS, and I bet you will become hooked on one of the best and most rewarding viewing experiences of the TV year. This is a film with both beauty and brains — it is gorgeous to look at, it will make you think and possibly even stir your soul. http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/burns.jpg A history of the nation’s great parks might not sound as hot and toe-tappingly transgressive as the saga of jazz or as action-packed and heart-rending as the Civil War, two American narratives that Burns has explored in landmark films for public television. But the parks have their own power, and part of it comes from a vis
Committing yourself for 12 hours to any TV production is a big deal. But before you decide you don’t have the time for Ken Burns’ new multipart documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” consider just giving it a 30-minute tryout. Watch the first half hour Sunday on PBS, and I bet you will become hooked on one of the best and most rewarding viewing experiences of the TV year. This is a film with both beauty and brains — it is gorgeous to look at, it will make you think and possibly even stir your soul. A history of the nation’s great parks might not sound as hot and toe-tappingly transgressive as the saga of jazz or as action-packed and heart-rending as the Civil War, two American narratives that Burns has explored in landmark films for public television. But the parks have their own power, and part of it comes from a visual glory that neither of those other two topics inherently held.
