Edwood candor-hands (cinematheque) (vhs)

Rating: 4/10 (9 May 2012)

Well, a movie about movies, it's always a bit narcissus for me. Speaking about his art is the easiest project that a lazy author can imagine. Here, i can make an exception because the real Wood was so goofy that it's funny after all. Above all, he is a passionate man and his fire is contagious.
Beyond this, the movie is foremost a story about an extraordinary friendship between Wood and the old Bela. Martin Landau is totally moving playing this waned star and it's totally right he won the Oscar for this. I was surprised to see that his daughter is playing along him too but even without this, the talent of Tim is to impulse a familial mood to his cast. I would also give a very honorable to her then girlfriend, Lisa Marie, because as Vampira, she vampirises the part!
I really don't know what could have brought Danny but it's certain that Shore is an excellent substitute and his Wood's theme is really good.
Finally, i wonder if Wood was so a disastrous director. For example, i find it was really a stroke of a genius to have the cast printed over the tombstones at the beginning and in fact, the original idea comes from Wood himself. His "Plan 9 from outer space" opens like this but in the same time, i admit i didn't have the desire to go further !