Ed Wood (U.S., 1994): Cool World

Film - Feature | July 14 | 8:50 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

21 Jump Street lost its teen idol when Johnny Depp jumped the show for Edward Scissorhands, a role that fit him like a glove. But this restless actor found another role that fit more like a cheap angora sweater when he took on Ed Wood, the biopic of a cross-dressing director of mangled movies. Tim Burton stylishly chronicles Wood’s career as it goes timber in the faint fifties with Ed’s drug-drenched best buddy by his side, none other than Bela Lugosi, vehemently vamped by Martin Landau. Dapper and delirious, Depp is dizzily comic as the ever-optimistic junk peddler who sees a silver lining behind every overcast film.

—Steve Seid

• Written by Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, based on Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. by Rudolph Grey. Photographed by Stefan Czapsky. With Johnny Depp, Patricia Arquette, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker. (126 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Buena Vista)

Tickets: $5.50 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students,  $6.50 Non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and young adults (13-17),  $9.50 General admission

Event Contact: 510-642-0808