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Tim Burton |
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Director / Producer |
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1958 - |
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Born August 25,
Burbank, California, USA |
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Key
Production Countries: USA |
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Key Genres:
Fantasy, Children's/Family, Fantasy Comedy |
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Key
Collaborators: Danny
Elfman (Composer), Chris Lebenzon (Editor), Johnny Depp (Leading
Player), Helena Bonham Carter (Leading Player), Richard D. Zanuck
(Producer), Michael Keaton (Leading Player), Denise DiNovi (Producer),
John August (Screenwriter), Jeffrey Jones (Leading Character Player), Stefan Czapsky
(Cinematographer) |
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Highly Recommended: Ed Wood (1994)*, Sleepy Hollow (1999) |
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Recommended:
Vincent (1982), Edward
Scissorhands (1990)*, Mars Attacks! (1996), Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005) [co-directed by Mike
Johnson] |
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Worth a Look:
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman Returns (1992), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) |
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Approach with Caution:
Batman (1989), Planet of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
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Links:
[
Amazon
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IMDB
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TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference
] [
Wikipedia ] [
The
Tim Burton Collective ] [
Dark
Visions: The Tim Burton Fanlisting ] [
The
Tim Burton Dream Site ]
[
Flickering Myth Profile ] |
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Books:
[
Tim
Burton: A Child's Garden of Nightmares ] [
Tim
Burton ] [
Tim
Burton: An Unauthorized Biuography of the Filmmaker ] [
Tim
Burton: Interviews ] [
Burton
on Burton: Revised Edition ] [
Gothic Fantasy: The Films of Tim Burton ] |
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"Johnny Depp once said that
no one so obviously out of place in Hollywood fits in so
right as Burton. Maybe that explains why misfit director
Burton remains in the unique position of a chameleon whose
movies appeal to mainstream and cultish fringe audiences
alike."
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Ernest Mathijs (501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers, 2007)
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"Burton has sometimes
been compared to
Steven Spielberg, because of their affinity
for the child's-eye view (and, perhaps, their limited
engagement with the opposite sex), but the work is of a very
different temperature. More intuitive, less sentimental,
Burton has none of
Spielberg's
sense of the rightful order
of things. Indeed, storytelling is not his forte. His movies
get by on atmosphere and curiosity rather than narrative drive or manipulation." -
Tom Charity (The Rough Guide to Film,
2007) |
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"Burton is the most clear-cut
example of the movie brat made by an age of horror, fantasy,
animation, and effects. There is not really a hint of the
straight world in his films, and those who miss such things
should face the possibility that Burton (and his
contemporaries) have never noticed such a thing. In other
words, photography for him is only a way of making effects.
He does not understand that it was ever reckoned as way of
recording nature. Everything in a Burton film expresses the
distorted feelings of a resolute, inescapable loneliness -
his world is constitutionally warped and explosive."
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David
Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)
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"I`ve always loved the
idea of fairy tales, but somehow I never managed to
completely connect with them. What interests me is taking
those classic images and themes and trying to contemporize
them a bit. I believe folk tales and fairy tales have some
sort of psychological foundation that makes that possible."
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Tim Burton |
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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director
that we haven't seen include
Alice in
Wonderland (2010). |
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7+ |
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"Although
in the last resort I find his work more distinctive than
distinguished, Tim Burton compels interest and attention by
the way in which he has established within the Hollywood
mainstream a cinema that is, to say the least, highly
eccentric, idiosyncratic, and personal… Credit must be given
to Burton’s originality and inventiveness: he is an
authentic artist in the sense that he is so clearly
personally involved in and committed to his peculiar vision
and its realization in film. What equally demands to be
questioned is the degree of real intelligence underlying
these qualities. The inventiveness is all on the surface, in
the art direction, makeup, special effects. The conceptual
level of the films does not bear very close scrutiny."
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Robin Wood, International Dictionary
of Film and Filmmakers |
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●
Top 250 Directors |
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100 Essential Directors (Pop
Matters) |
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501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Tim Burton's Favourites |
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Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) Alan Gibson, The Golden Voyage of
Sinbad (1974) Gordon Hessler, The Omega Man (1971) Boris Sagal,
The War of the Gargantuas (1966) Ishirô Honda, The Wicker Man
(1973) Robin Hardy.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes (2010) |
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