Tim Burton
Timothy Walter "Tim" Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an
American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is
famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward
Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse
Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and for
blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns,
Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in
Wonderland, his most recent film, that was the second
highest-grossing film of 2010 as well as the sixth highest-grossing
film of all time. Among Burton's many collaborators are Johnny Depp,
who became a close friend since their film together, musician Danny
Elfman (who has composed for all but five of the films Burton has
directed and/or produced) and domestic partner Helena
Bonham Carter.
He also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of
Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997, and a compilation
of his drawings, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in
2009.
Burton has directed 14 films as of 2010, and has produced 10 as of
2009. His next films are a film adaptation of soap opera Dark
Shadows, which is slated to begin production in January 2011 and a
remake of his short Frankenweenie, which will be released on October
5, 2012.
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Reviews of the Past: Big Fish Has Big Heart
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From January 2, 2008:
Of all the movies lent to me by my friend (6 in total, 5 of them watched), this was the film I most looked forward to seeing. Also on my Netflix queue somewhere, it was one of those movies I'd always intended to see but somehow didn't have the opportunity to enjoy, for reasons unbeknownst to me. It was advertised as a fantasy, which is right up my alley. It's directed by Tim Burton, who I generally love. And Ewan McGregor is in it, who I generally find very nice to look at. Are you detecting a pattern yet?
Edward Bloom (Albert Finney in later years, McGregor in younger) likes to tell tall tales to liven up the more mundane parts of his life, including growing up and meeting his wife (Jessica Lange in later years, Alison Lohman in younger). His son William (Billy Crudup, the voice of MasterCard) feels that Edward's many stories and his life as a traveling salesman have prevented him from truly getting to know his father. After a three year silence between father and son following one of Edward's most notable performances at William's wedding to his own wife (Marion Cotillard), William returns home, as Edward is dying of cancer. In an effort to reconcile, William presses Edward for truer details about his life, but Edward holds to his more fanciful stories. Much of the film is told in flashback, recounting young Edward's envisioned encounters with a giant named Carl (Matthew McGrory), a circus leader and werewolf (Danny DeVito) and his clown attorney (Deep Roy), and Siamese twins who share a leg, not to mention the old and large catfish he allegedly caught with his wedding ring as bait the day William was born.
I really liked this mov...
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reviewed by Pippin2010 (Filmaster.com) on the 1st of February 2010
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Nice movie, but a bit silly. The end is good.