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This is the second half of a two-part overview of the career of Ed Wood, Jr. You can read the first part here. Before the terms Art Brut, Outsider Art, and Naïve Art were bandied about freely, Ed Wood, Jr. personified those concepts. Of course, Wood himself had to die first before being canonized as . . . → Read More: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO EDWARD D. WOOD. JR: THE NEW TESTAMENT *This is the first testament in our Ed Wood Gospel. The second, New Testament, will cover Wood’s late films, including his collaborations with A.C. Stephens. This month, Ed Wood‘s Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) sees its Blu-ray release; posthumously, Ed is thoroughly enjoying his last laugh. He can thank those smug, condescending, hopelessly unimaginative . . . → Read More: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO EDWARD D. WOOD, JR! This article was originally published at Raging Bull Movie Reviews. Art College in the early 1980’s was gloriously anti-academia. It was the type of atmosphere where even a hint of succumbing to systematic, structured, aesthetic thinking could lead to excommunication. You learned what you had to learn, or rather you learned what you were exposed . . . → Read More: DAVID LYNCH IS DEAD Ed. note: The movies of Rustam Khamdamov are impossible to find in the West, and for the most part in his native Russia as well. Read this article (to our knowledge the most extensive retrospective of Khamdamov to be found on the Internet in English) to discover how this legendary, and very weird, director has . . . → Read More: RUSTAM KHAMDAMOV: IMPOSSIBLE TO BE GREAT… Any hip, against-the-grain aficionado with an appreciation for the surreal, the avant-garde, and the experimental will tell you flat out that there’s no comparison: it’s Keaton over Chaplin. You simply have to concede Keaton’s superiority because Chaplin was too accepted, too famous, too popular, too sentimental, too rich, too pedestrian in directorial style, too populist, too . . . → Read More: IN A WORD, “CHAPLIN” Apparently Pee Wee’s Playhouse: The Movie is actually in production and is slated for a 2011 release. There has always been an uneasy relationship between avant-garde and outsider art. In 1985, Tim Burton and Pee-Wee Herman brilliantly thumbed their noses at any pretense of tension between the two with Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. Herman and . . . → Read More: REQUIEM FOR TIM BURTON & JOHNNY DEPP In a brief span of four years, from 1956 to 1960, Director Budd Boetticher, writer Burt Kennedy and actor Randolph Scott collaborated on a series of seven “chamber westerns” which rank as one of the most rewarding achievements in the art of American Cinema. While a number of prominent film critics, historians and luminaries have rightly praised the . . . → Read More: THE EXQUISITE CHAMBER WESTERNS OF BUDD BOETTICHER, PART ONE: SEVEN MEN FROM NOW (1956) This guest essay is by Alfred Eaker, director of Jesus and Her Gospel of Yes!, which was voted Best Experimental Film in the 2004 New York International Film and Video Festival, and the feature . . . → Read More: STANLEY KUBRICK, CULTURAL OMNIVORE |
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