He (and his collaborators) largely ditch the “Ken Burns effect” of letting the camera roam across a still image. He still uses actors to read letters (and Keith David is nicely deployed as a ...

He needn’t have worried. The strokes of brilliance in “Leonardo da Vinci” include the use of narrator Keith David, a Burns veteran (“Jazz,” “Muhammad Ali”), and the sonic ...

An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...