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Jackson Braider

Arts Remembrance: Peter Matthiessen – The Last Frontiersman

The late writer Peter Matthiessen was one of the last great frontiersmen, one of the last great travelers taking voyages of discovery.

By: Jackson Braider Filed Under: Books, Featured, Fuse News Tagged: In Paradise, Peter Matthiessen

Fuse Appreciation: The Late Pete Seeger — Creating Music on a Human Scale

One of the more fascinating contributions Pete Seeger made to our collective musical sensibility was the effortless way in which he introduced what we now call “world music” to his audiences.

By: Jackson Braider Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Fuse News Tagged: Jackson Braider, Pete-Seeger

Film Commentary: “Inside Llewyn Davis” — Another Perspective

Among the important things the filmmakers get right — the elemental pissiness of a scene that is far smaller than it is envisioned by the narcissists who once occupied it.

By: Jackson Braider Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Coen Brothers, Dave Van Ronk, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jackson Braider

Film News: Sex and the Single Hobbit

Inflating The Hobbit: Goodbye to the Boys-Only Club

By: Jackson Braider Filed Under: Film, Fuse News Tagged: Peter Jackson, Tauriel, The Hobbit

Film Commentary: “The Hobbit” in Print and in Film — A Quick Guide on How to Put the “Faux” in Folklore

Director Peter Jackson in his film adaptation of The Hobbit abandons the intimate scale of the original wonder tale and mistakenly blows it up into mythic proportions.

By: Jackson Braider Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film Tagged: J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, The Hobbit DVD

Film Commentary: Grimm Sightings on the Silver Screen — The Imagination Killers

Films such as Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters deny audiences the capacity to suspend disbelief. Instead, they use technology to make the impossible look real and the magical seem as this-worldly as an old screen door.

By: Jackson Braider Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Snow White and the Huntsman

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