‘The Man Will Burn’ Review: HBO’s Burning Man Docuseries Boasts Impressive Access, but Sticks Too Close to the Photogenic Surface

‘The Man Will Burn’ Review: HBO’s Burning Man Docuseries Boasts Impressive Access, but Sticks Too Close to the Photogenic Surface

Blessed with impressive multi-year access to the Burning Man Festival, its participants and bureaucracy, but undone by indecisiveness in its structure, themes and purpose, Jehane Noujaim and Vikram Gandhi’s The Man Will Burn is an engaging puzzlement.  Over its rushed and disjointed four-hour running time, the HBO docuseries offers some sense of the community that…

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#Burning Man goes virtual as thousands attend in-person anyway

#Burning Man goes virtual as thousands attend in-person anyway

“#Burning Man goes virtual as thousands attend in-person anyway” Burning Man, the annual counter-culture festival that in recent years has drawn tens of thousands to the middle of the desert, has kicked off virtually again this year — but that’s reportedly not stopping renegade mega fans from trekking to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert anyway. The…

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