Johnny Depp looks for answers in Tim Burton's haunted fairy tale SLEEPY HOLLOW
MoMA Film
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
Through January 31
Tickets: $10, in person only, may be applied to museum admission within thirty days, same-day screenings free with museum admission, available at Film and Media Desk
212-708-9400
www.moma.org
www.timburton.com
Writer, director, producer, and animator Tim Burton is a spectacular visual stylist with an unending imagination that began when he was a child and continues now into his fifties. He burst onto the cinematic scene in 1985 with the charming PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE and followed that up with such gems as BATMAN (1989), EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990), ED WOOD (1994), SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999), and SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (2007) as well as with such hit-or-miss films as MARS ATTACKS! (1996), BIG FISH (2003), and CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (2005). His name actually became part of the title in the cult classic TIM BURTON’S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993), the stop-motion animated movie directed by Henry Selick, who also helmed Burton’s production of JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1996). And Burton found his onscreen alter ego in Johnny Depp, who has starred in a half dozen features made by the Burbank-born filmmaker and will be playing the Mad Hatter in next year’s highly anticipated ALICE IN WONDERLAND. In conjunction with MoMA’s exciting retrospective of Burton’s work, a fantastic collection of models, shorts, costumes, storyboards, paintings, drawings, notebooks, school projects, and other paraphernalia, the museum is screening his entire oeuvre through January 31.
Michael Keaton closes out Burton retrospective in BEETLEJUICE on New Year's Eve
The upcoming schedule features the excellent SLEEPY HOLLOW on December 27 at 5:30, the dreadful PLANET OF THE APES (2001) remake on January 1 at 4:30, the great ED WOOD on January 2 at 5:30, the inconsistent MARS ATTACKS! on January 4 at 4:30, and the charming PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE on January 11 at 4:30 before finishing up with the fine BATMAN on January 23 (5:00), the up-and-down CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (4:30) and the bloody good SWEENEY TODD (8:00) on January 27, the nearly unwatchable BATMAN RETURNS (1992) on January 28, and the very funny BEETLEJUICE (1988) on January 31 (6:00). Tickets for the screenings are $10 and are available the day of the show, but they are free if you go the same day you visit the timed-ticked exhibition, which is a splendid way to experience Burton’s chaotic genius.