This week we chat with filmmaker Shane Anderson about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the almost-Oscar-winning movie musical - La La Land!

Writing for The Boston Globe in December 2016, Ty Burr summarized the effectiveness of the film to relate to audiences stating: "...the movie traffics in the bittersweet happiness of treasuring things that are vanishing, like the unrealized future imagined in the climatic dance number, or those inky, star-filled dance floors that go on forever in old movies, or Hollywood musicals themselves. Or jazz: Sebastian has an early moment at a nightclub where he passionately sticks up for the music he loves. 'It's dying on the vine,' he says. 'And the world says 'Let it die. It had its time.' Well, not on my watch.' In that scene, he speaks for the director. By the end of 'La La Land,' he's speaking for all of us."

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Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_La_Land_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Chazelle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiplash_(2014_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_La_La_Land

IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3783958/

iTunes

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/la-la-land/id1179249419

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/3GU8BzFEAdFSRjc8jZkL3S

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