"La La Land" is firmly set in the present but pays loving tribute to movie musicals of the past. It's been nominated for 14 Oscars, tying the record set by "All About Eve" and "Titanic."
La La Land started being used in the late 1970s and early 80s as a nickname for Los Angeles, California, specifically to refer to Hollywood. The film’s pursuit of dreams, blissful romance, and LA setting inspired its title.
Dec 20, 2016, 9:18 AM PST. Dale Robinette. La La Land director Damien Chazelle declares his intentions in the film’s opening moments, as a crowd of Angelenos caught in a traffic jam leap into an
PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm that counts the Oscar ballots, issued a statement taking the blame for the mix-up: We sincerely apologize to Moonlight, La La Land, Warren Beatty, Faye
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The verve and magic of La La Land echoes and pays tribute to the classical Hollywood musicals of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. It was in those Depression years of the 1930s that audiences flocked to see Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance, and look like they were having fun. La La Land’s director Damien Chazelle was inspired by those musicals, as La La Land won nearly every possible award for a film, so the hype surrounding it was impossible to miss; factor in that it’s also a musical and you can begin to understand how I – along with many others – came to appreciate the soundtrack before witnessing a single scene from the movie. The rarest thing about this soundtrack isn’t that
Sean O’Neal: Well, guys, it’s official: La La Land has scored an incredible 14 Oscar nominations, and it’s decidedly the feel-good, crowd-pleasing movie sensation of the year! Critics love
In one of The New Yorker's two conflicting reviews of the movie, Anthony Lane calls La La Land a “rough-edged fairy tale.” Fairy tales have harmed girls for centuries — teaching us to wait
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