La La Land is a whimsical old-fashioned Hollywood musical about two Angelenos with big dreams: Mia (a delightful Emma Stone), an aspiring actress and playwright, and Seb (Ryan Gosling), a jazz pianist with a chip on his shoulder. If you’ve ever dated in Brooklyn, you have dated a man like Seb. His most prized possession is a stool owned by
The Dance: Viennese Waltz. The first minute of this song creates a theatrical buildup. What follows is a lovely slow-tempo Viennese Waltz, a slower Waltz interlude starting at the 1:44 mark, slower still at the 1:52 mark, and a rousing return to Viennese Waltz at the 2:27 mark. 8.
La La Land treats music as something easy and lovely for Seb, and the jazz clubs he visits are packed with black musicians and spectators. If he was successful in "saving jazz", the idolizations of a white musician over black musicians in a black art form would be massively problematic, just another iteration of the white savior trope.
01/6/2017. John Legend and Ryan Gosling in La La Land. Dale Robinette/Lionsgate. While John Legend is presumably in Washington, D.C., for President Barack Obama’s farewell party (“We don’t
Hurwitz started working on the music for "La La Land" in 2011, working on the film full-time for a year. "But we couldn't get it made," Hurwitz said, due to lack of financing.
La La Land composer Justin Hurwitz brought the sounds of the “City of Stars” to Austin on Sunday. The newly minted Oscar winner joined the crowds at SXSW to give a live performance of jazz
In this dazzling song-and-dance spectacle, the genre gets an exuberant re-write. In ‘La La Land,’ Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling pay homage to the musical is a jazz pianist with exacting
