Ken Burns on ‘Waking the Dead,’ Cutting Trump-Era Echoes and Why His Obama Film Can Wait
“You wake the dead.” Ken Burns offered that succinct description of his filmmaking at the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival on Friday, where the veteran documentarian dug into the craft behind bringing history to life and made a claim for the ensemble assembled for his latest epic, “The American Revolution.” “I think this film is the […]
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