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About this movie. Directed and produced by Tim Burton, Big Eyes is based on the true story of Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), who was one of the most successful painters of the 1950s and early 1960s. The artist earned staggering notoriety by revolutionizing the commercialization and accessibility of popular art with his enigmatic paintings of ...
Dec 22, 2014 · “Big Eyes” screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski hope the film causes the art establishment to re-evaluate Keane’s work. Others, like Meg Cranston, chairwoman of the fine arts ...
Dec 30, 2014 · Big Eyes could have been a dutiful Lifetime movie about the exploitation of women. That it becomes something scrappier, deeper and memorably comic and touching is due to the radiant Adams, who ...
Big Eyes follows Margaret Keane, who was a prolific painter famous for her depictions of big-eyed children. Born Peggy Doris Hawkins in 1927, the artist suffered damage to her eardrum when she was just two years old, meaning that she heavily relied on studying people’s eyes when they spoke to better understand them.
Nov 14, 2014 · November 14, 2014 11:00am. Big Eyes asserts itself as a nifty sort of Tim Burton companion piece to his earlier Ed Wood, a consideration of self-imagined “artistic” lives that have less to do ...
