![]() ![]() Burton confines himself to dealing with Wood's life at its pinnacle - the years from 1954-59, during which the director filmed Bride of the Monster as well as the aforementioned films - and has wisely forsaken Wood's eventual descent into alcoholism and cheap porno flicks. It's also, in a very palpable sense, a multi-faceted love story focusing on Wood's passion for making movies, his love for the then-over-the-hill Bela Lugosi, and a funky, friendly look at Hollywood in the Fifties. ![]() Burton's film is a loving tribute to this man whose cinematic ambitions outweighed his talent ten-to-one. Perhaps only Wood himself, he of the eponymous Plan 9 from Outer Space and Glen or Glenda (alternately, enthusiastically titled “I Changed My Sex!”). and his motley crew of hangers-on would someday be the subject of a major studio release. ![]() Who would have thought, years ago, that someday grade-z director Edward D. The strangest biographical film ever made is also one of the most charming, melancholy and quirkily humorous films of the year a wonderfully sparse recreation of the glory years of Hollywood's lowest echelons and the adolescence of independent filmmaking. ![]()
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