Tag: La La Land

• The Great Eleven O’Clock Number

  

  As I previously wrote: “..none [of the songs] get us there quite like its eleven o’clock number, “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” does. It is La La Land’s most character-driven piece and undeniably its best song (despite being passed over by “City of Stars” for Best Song nominee at that year’s Oscars).”  Featuring wonderfully-penned lyrics…

  Jessica Taghap

  November 14, 2019

  Rewind

  Bob Fosse, Cabaret, Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone, Encore, La La Land, Liza Minelli, Music, Musical Theatre, Sight, Sound

• Music to Move the Stars: Damien Chazelle’s ‘La La Land’ is a Dizzying Confection of Dreamy Nostalgia

  

  For nearly the past twenty years or so, movie-musicals have seen a resurgence in the public consciousness.  One such film that has done so, and with as much fanfare (or perhaps even more so), is none other than Damien Chazelle’s own ambitious take, La La Land (2016).  Chazelle’s second attempt at a musical (after his…

  Jessica Taghap

  July 3, 2019

  Review, Rewind

  Film, Film Strips, La La Land, musical, Musical Theatre, Sight, Sound