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Oct 7, 1994 · Played with warmth and enthusiasm by Johnny Depp, Wood is a guy who simply must make movies – and who is so bedazzled by Hollywood legend that he mistakes poor Bela Lugosi, long past his prime and mired in drug addiction, as a star.
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- 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' Released: 1957. "Can your heart stand the shocking facts about graverobbers from outer space?" Plan 9 from Outer Space represents the pinnacle of Wood's anti-genius.
- 'Bride of the Monster' Released: 1955. Bride of the Monster, an over-the-top sci-fi horror, begins with 12 people having gone missing from a small town.
- 'Glen or Glenda' Released: 1953. "YOU ARE SOCIETY — JUDGE YE NOT…” Glen or Glenda tells the story of Glen/Glenda (Wood), a transvestite who keeps his cross-dressing a secret, even from his fiancé Barbara (Dolores Fuller).
- 'Jail Bait' Released: 1954. Jail Bait is a tragic noir film about Don Gregor (Clancy Malone), the ne'er-do-well son of famous plastic surgeon Dr. Boris Gregor (Herbert Rawlinson).
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- This Is The Closest Tim Burton Came to Making An Autobiographical Film
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Ed Wood is bolstered by a genuinely incredible script by two of the hardest working, most talented screenwriters in Hollywood – Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Longtime friends and collaborators (they were first roommates at USC), they had come off a pair of broad studio comedies, but were clearly capable of more. They wrote Ed Wood, a skewe...
Of all the words to describe Tim Burton, “personal” isn’t at the top of the list. He makes films filled with oddball outsiders, psychologically damaged superheroes, and skittering stop-motion creatures. Even if the movies are emotional, which they sometimes are, it’s hard to really connect with them because they are full of such colorful, outsized ...
It can’t be overstated just how important the creative partnership between Johnny Depp and Burton has been over the years, leading to some of the most memorable films in either man’s oeuvre. And Ed Wood, made at the peak of their combined powers, marks Depp’s very best performance and his best collaboration with the director. As Wood, Depp is total...
There’s too much to go into detail with, but there is so much else that is incredible in Ed Wood. There are the superb supporting performances by Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray, Juliette Landau and Vincent D’Onofrio (as Orson Welles!) And this is without even mentioning Rick Baker’s make-up effects that turned Landau into Lugo...
Ed Wood is a 1994 American biographical comedy-drama film directed and produced by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as Ed Wood, the eponymous cult filmmaker. The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau.
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up to fete the life and work of cult hero Ed Wood, with typically strange and wonderful results. Read Critics Reviews. The sweet center of the movie is Wood's ...
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Ed Wood: Directed by Tim Burton. With Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette. Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.