1994 · comedy · drama · biography
Ed Wood (1994)
Directed by Tim Burton2h 7m1994
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Our read: Ed Wood (1994) (1994) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy · drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- inventive
- signature
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