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  Ed Wood (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ed Wood is a biopic directed by Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp as the transvestite cult movie maker Edward D. Wood Jr.
The film focuses on the period in Ed's life when he made his best-known films, and also his relationship with Bela Lugosi (Oscar winner Martin Landau), the down-on-his luck actor who had starred as Dracula in the film of the same name.
The background research for Ed Wood relied heavily on Nightmare of Ecstasy by Rudolph Grey (ISBN 0922915245), a full-length biography, which draws on interviews from Wood's family and colleagues.
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 Movie Review: Ed Wood
Ed Wood was a real Hollywood director who made genre films in the 1950's.
Wood, a man with bad teeth, a twisted cinemetic vision, and a habit of wearing women's clothing, is played by Johnny Depp.
Ed Wood is rated R. I didn't see anything particularly objectionable (no overt sex, nudity, or bad language), but Lugosi's drug use is obvious and the entire plot is relatively mature.
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 Ed Wood Movie Review
The great surprise of ED WOOD is that in his own unique and twisted way, director Tim Burton has turned one of the worst filmmakers of all time into one of those inspirational figures.
Johnny Depp plays Ed Wood with a kind of childlike awe in the mere fact that he is able to make films, and his mantra of "Perfect!" after every clumsy take becomes not simply a paradigm for self-delusion, but a reminder that sometimes process is as important to art as product.
Ed Wood's uniquely wonderful naivete comes from the fact that he never fully grasps that Hollywood was a business first.
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 Encyclopedia: Ed Wood (movie)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The soundtrack for Ed Wood was by Howard Shore.
Girlfriend of the notorious Ed Wood, Dolores Fuller (born 1923) also earned popularity in her own right.
As Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Manhattan sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City.
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Wood, you see, was such a unique individual and his films were so legendary in their awfulness that in many ways, his story had long been crying out for the big screen treatment.
Depp's performance is as joyous as it's hilarious, brilliantly capturing Wood's eternal optimism and perfectly nailing the character of a man who improvised spectacularly and who was always more comfortable and relaxed when he felt the soothing touch of angora against his skin.
As a director, Wood was ignored in life and mocked in death, but Burton's film sparked something of a resurgence in interest in his work.
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 ED WOOD MOVIES
Wood himself stars under the name Daniel Davis and plays a transvestite who can not decide if he should tell the woman he is going to marry about his desire to wear women's clothes.
Ed Wood and Conrad Brooks appear in the movie in a knife fight scene.
ED WOOD(1994) A big budget biopic about the life of Ed Wood (Played by Johnny Depp) It was shot in fl and white and director Tim Burton did a great job of re creating the look of Ed Wood's movies.
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 Ed Wood Movie Review
Ed Wood, a struggling studio worker in Hollywood, has bigger dreams--to write, direct, star in and produce his own film, just like his idol, Orson Welles.
Wood's enthusiasm is radiated from Johnny Depp, who with wild-eyes and a big-toothed (yet somewhat maligned) smile makes even the worst of Wood's dialogue echo with poignancy--believe it or not.
ED WOOD is funny, passionate, and if you've ever seen any of Ed Wood's work it'll be amazing to see how it was made.
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 Ed Wood (movie) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp as the transvestite cult movie maker Edward D. Wood Jr.
The film focuses on the part in Ed's life where he made his best-known films, and also where he met Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau) who starred as Dracula in the film of the same name.
In this case, the music was by Howard Shore.
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 Laramie Movie Scope: Ed Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the 1950's era of grade-z drive-in movies, Ed Wood directed two of the worst, ``Glen or Glenda'' and ``Plan 9 from Outer Space.'' Wood was, like Quentin Tarantino, a man who lived to make movies, but unlike Tarantino, had no talent.
Wood (well played by Johnny Depp) couldn't say no to any shot, every take was ``perfect.'' In his defense, he made films on shoestring budgets in a matter of days.
Wood is also befriended by a couple of television personalities, the Amazing Criswell (Jeffrey Jones ``Stay Tuned'') and Vampira (Lisa Marie) as well as a pro wrestler, Tor Johnson (played by George ``The Animal'' Steele).
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 The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The filmmaker Ed Wood, Jr., who died in 1978, didn’t make many movies during the last decade of his life, owing to problems with money and booze, not to mention the problem of never having made movies that were any good in the previous decades.
It was one of the first skin flicks to have what, technically, could be called a plot, and for Ed Wood fanatics—among whom are many Woodites, as adherents of the Church of the Heavenly Wood call themselves (no joke)—it was for years the ultimate buried treasure, the Woodite equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Wood made two versions, one soft-core (the sex is simulated) and the other hard-core (the sex is real), both of which went missing after an extremely brief run at the Hudson Theatre, on West Forty-fourth Street, in 1971.
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 Ed Wood Movie: Ed Wood DVD is available from Bestprices.com
A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed "worst movie director of all time," Tim Burton's ED WOOD is nevertheless a delightful, zany, and ultimately moving film.
With his fetishistic style of dressing in for pumps, narrow skirts and angora sweaters, Ed Wood was as much of an outsider as his actors.
Perhaps the final irony is that ED WOOD may be one of the best films of all time about one of the worst filmmakers of all time.
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 Ed Wood Movie Review at Hollywood Video
Another thing they wondered about was Wood's transvestism, an especially difficult "cross-dress to bear" in Wood's heyday, but nevertheless a topic he managed to explore in another of his bizarrely fascinating films, Glen or Glenda.
As portrayed here, Wood is incurably optimistic, and so enamored of the moviemaking process that he's blind to mistakes even his financial backers (such as elders from a nearby Baptist Church) can spot.
Ed Wood's life teaches us that qualities such as creative spirit and dogged perseverance are not bestowed only on those with talent.
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 Ed Wood : Movie Description, Show times & Film Critics - Ottawa - CinemaClock.com
Must see movie about a man though a bit unstable, sincerely loved the cinema and desperately wanted to be a great writer, directer and producer;Edward D. Wood Jr.'.
Ed Wood is an amazing movie about the man voted worst director of all time.
Some of the facts about the characters in the movie are not quite right, but you always have to leave some room for that, even if it is based on a true story.
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 Review: Ed Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Tim Burton, with a biopic that is as much a parody as a tribute, has brought Wood to fl-and-white life in the person of actor Johnny Depp, and surrounded him with a cast whose members often bear an uncanny resemblance to their real-life counterparts.
It's difficult to know what Wood was better known for: his bad movies, the unbelievable pace at which he shot them, or the women's clothing he enjoyed wearing.
Ed Wood is at times over-the-top and silly - but it's never condescending or mocking.
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 Movie Forums - Ed Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The difference between Ed Wood and other bad film makers is there is something special about him, a uniqueness that you can't help but admire.
Wood's penchant for dressing in womens clothing and admiration for Welles and Lugosi's drug problems and suicidal tendency really highlight their lives and help understand how difficult and extrodinary and fascinating their life was, even then, for those in the industry.
An under-rated mastery of movie making about a man who was not a movie master but a wonderous man of his time, and a man who was too late appreciated for his vast contribution to films.
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 Ed Wood mistakes, goofs and bloopers
Continuity: When Ed is filming Bela Lugosi's last footage in front of his house, he is standing on the sidewalk, facing the house.
Audio problem: When Ed Wood meets Orson Welles, after Orson says his first line his cheeks keep moving, just as it does when he is speaking.
Factual error: The movie is set in the late 1950s, yet Ed's car has yellow-on-fl California license plates that weren't issued until 1963.
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 Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Ed Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ed Wood is another wonderfully idiosyncratic film about an outsider and maverick from writer and director Tim Burton.
Wood earns our affection by his loving treatment of this over-the-hill, drug-addicted actor.
But most endearing of all is this director's enthusiasm for making movies — even if they turn out to be tacky and terrible.
www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_4734.html   (145 words)

  
 Ed Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wood works into 8th, wins for first time in more than two months by Recap Visit ESPN.com for the complete story.
In hindsight, Ed Volonnino wishes he had been in better control when a television film crew spent a day with him and his tikis.
Cadres of commie codgers are coming to a capital near you to demonstrate in support of same-sex marriage and to denigrate our troops in the field—their wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, and canes thundering over brisk March winds.
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 Ed Wood Movie Review
Ed Wood is in stark fl and white, with a lot of real dingy Hollywood locations.
The extent that Ed Wood goes to make his films, and the truly bizarre raft of Hollywood would-be's that he accumulates transcends the bounds of the making a film genre.
Wood is treated as with an amount of reverence that he certainly never received in his real life.
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 Plan 9 From Outer Space by Side Order of Ninjas-Totally Ninjarific
It is never said anywhere in the movie that she was the dead wife of Bela.
Ed Wood forgot which scenes needed to be day and night.
Ed Wood, a man no one would remember to this day except for the Tim Burton movie made about him.
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 Long-Lost Final Film by Ed Wood Rediscovered   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The 1971 movie is a porn film documenting the sexual enlightenment of a young couple at the hands of a coven of witches.
The movie tells the story of Danny and Shirley, a young couple who visit the mysterious Madame Heles for help with their flagging sex life.
He says "Necromania" displays Wood's wit and style and he points to a scene where the main character Danny is struggling to untangle a pair of red pajama bottoms to put them on.
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 ED WOOD unofficial HOME PAGE
I think that Ed Wood hoped that Bunny would get the sex change operation that he was always planning and Ed could finally make the sex change movie that he had wanted Glen or Glenda to be.
Screenplay by ED WOOD, using the pseudonym Akdov Telmig.
The movie made for about $7,000.00 and was filmed in a weekend by Ed in a pink baby doll outfit.
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 Ed Wood - MoviesOnline!
Though Wood died in obscurity as an alcoholic in 1978, his films have been considered cult classics for years.
Wood's unconventional repertoire company is faithfully reproduced, including an Academy Award-winning Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi.
Landau is pathetic, droll, and charismatic as the elderly junkie who made his last screen appearances in Wood's films.
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 Ed Wood: Movie-Source.com Ed Wood Movie, Ed Wood Preview, Ed Wood Review
Review (A) Ed Wood is considered to be the worst director of all time, but in the entertainment industry, there's no such thing as bad press.
Depp is absolutely terrific as Ed Wood; he's funny, enjoyable to watch and completely different from any other role he's played.
Ed Wood is a must see for anyone who enjoys B-grade movies or a look at early indie filmmaking.
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 Ed Wood movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In this hilarious and touching tribute to a Hollywood maverick with grade-Z vision, detailed homage is paid to Wood's single-mindedness and optimism in the face of repeated failure and lack of financing, even down to the fl and white photography.
Depp is convincing (and engaging) as Ed Wood, Jr., the cross-dressing, angora-sweater-wearing, low-budget auteur of such notoriously "bad" cult films as "Glen or Glenda" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space." Depp is supported by terrific portrayals of the motley Wood crew, led by Landau's morphine-addicted, down-on-his-luck Bela Lugosi.
Burton focuses on Wood's relationship with Lugosi, whose career is over by the time Wood befriends him.
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 Ed Wood (1994)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Had it not been for the prestige that Tim Burton had already earned from his previous projects, ED WOOD would no doubt have foundered long before the cameras began to roll.
And this leads to what I believe to be the second theme of the movie, and the reason why I think it failed commercially.
This is why ED WOOD is such an un-Hollywood film – and why it's one of the best Hollywood films of the 90s.
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 DVDBeaver.com - DVD Review - "The Ed Wood Box" Image Entertainment - Region 1 NTSC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wood's lack of attention to detail is paramount in this film's high ranking in his ouvre.
Yes, nothing in Ed Wood's methods have been altered - reused sets and ad-hock dialogue are cornerstones to this films infamy.
To be fair the regular Wood performers have improved with age and the performances in this, although far from award nomination, and not as bad as they were in previous efforts.
www.feature.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReview6/edwoodbox.htm   (1631 words)

  
 Ed Wood - Movie Commentary by Scott Ventura (FeedMyEgo.com)
I am delighted that he is daring enough to film in fl and white, although in retrospect it's hard to imagine the movie any other way.
I greatly enjoyed seeing Wood chronicled using some of the cinematic tricks that Wood himself employed.
Ed Wood is mentioned in Scott's commentary on:
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 Amazon.com: DVD: The Ed Wood Box (Glen or Glenda / Jail Bait / Bride of the Monster / Plan 9 from Outer Space / Night ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wood's indisputable disasterpiece, Plan 9 from Outer Space, offers pie-plate flying saucers, incompetent alien leaders, all-seeing psychic Criswell, goth favorite Vampira and a post-mortem appearance by Lugosi himself in his last film role.
Ed Wood is labeled the "Worst Director of All Time", but that really isn't true.
For a movie to be the worst movie of all time, it can't have any entertainment value whatsoever.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Ed Wood : Review
Ed loved movies with all his heart and soul, despite his lack of talent, and he surrounded himself with people who, like himself, were drawn to the life-changing magic of Hollywood and determined to be a part of it.
And the friendship between Ed and the aging Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau), in poor health and addicted to drugs, is touching in the least cloying of ways, as an old man who has been stripped of his dreams finds work with a young man whose dreams still keep him going.
Plenty of films have been made about people who made it in Hollywood, but Ed Wood is the best film about the people who didn't, perhaps because Burton seems to understand that the biggest thing separating him from his subject is not talent but luck.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/90868/review.jhtml   (266 words)

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