Ed Wood [Special Edition]

Director: Tim Burton Tim Burton

Overview

"Tim Burton's 1994 masterpiece Ed Wood comes to DVD in a Special Edition from Touchstone Home Entertainment. The cult classic is presented with a black-and-white widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original aspect ratio. The English soundtrack is remixed in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound. Optional subtitles are available in English and Spanish. An audio commentary track is provided by director Tim Burton, actor Martin Landau, co-writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, director of photography Stefan Czapsky, and costume designer Colleen Atwood. This disc is packed with special features. ""Let's Shoot This F#*%@r!"" is a behind-the-scenes featurette with leading man Johnny Depp. ""The Theremin"" is a brief look at the creation of the music for the film. ""Making Bela"" is a featurette about the creation of the Bela Lugosi character with actor Martin Landau and makeup designer Rick Baker. ""Pie Plates Over Hollywood"" is a featurette on the look of the film with production designer Tom Duffield. ""When Carol Met Larry"" is a featurette about real-life cross-dressers and their opinion on Ed Wood. Other special features include deleted scenes, a music video, and the original theatrical trailer. This is a highly recommended disc for a multiple Academy Award-winning film."

Product Details

Release Date:	10/19/2004
UPC:	0786936212501
Original Release:	1994
Rating:	R
Source:	Touchstone / Disney
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:07:00

Special Features

Closed Caption;Deleted scenes; "Let's Shoot This F#*%@r!" behind-the-scenes featurette, hosted by Johnny Depp; "Making Bela" featurette about the creation of the Bela Lugosi character in the film, with actor Martin Landau and makeup designer Rick Baker; "Pie Plates Over Hollywood" featurette on the look of the film, with production designer Tom Duffield; Featurette on the use of the theremin to create music for the film; Audio commentary with director Tim Burton, actor Martin Landau, co-writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, director of photography Stefan Czapsky, and costume designer Colleen Atwood; Music video; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Johnny Depp	Ed Wood
Martin Landau	Bela Lugosi,Loretta King
Sarah Jessica Parker	Dolores Fuller
Patricia Arquette	Kathy O'Hara
Jeffrey Jones	Criswell
G.D. Spradlin	Rev. Lemon
Vincent D'Onofrio	Orson Welles
Lisa Marie	Vampira
Bill Murray	Bunny Breckinridge
Mike Starr	George Weiss
Max Casella	Paul Marco
Brent Hinkley	Conrad Brooks
George "The Animal" Steele	Tor Johnson
Clive Rosengren	Ed Reynolds
Jim Myers	Actor
Norman Alden	Cameraman Bill
Victoria Thomas	Actor
Leonard Termo	Makeup Man Harry
Ned Bellamy	Dr. Tom Mason
Danny Dayton	Soundman
Ross Manarchy	Camera Assistant
Bill Cusack	Tony McCoy
Aaron Nelms	Teenage Kid
Biff Yeager	Rude Boss
Louis Lombardi	Rental House Manager
Mickey Cottrell	Hammy Alien
Joseph R. Gannascoli	Security Guard
Carmen Filpi	Old Crusty Man
Melora Walters	2nd Secretary
Conrad Brooks	Bartender
Don Amendolia	Salesman
Tommy Bertelsen	Tough Boy
Reid Cruickshanks	Stage Guard
Stanley DeSantis	Mr. Feldman
Lionel Decker	1st Executive
Edmund L. Shaff	2nd Executive
Gene LeBell	Ring Announcer
Jesse Hernandez	Wrestling Opponent
Bobby Slayton	TV Show Host
Gretchen Becker	TV Host's Assistant
John Rice	Conservative Man
Catherine Butterfield	Conservative Wife
Mary Portser	Backer's Wife
King Cotton	Hick Backer
Vasek Simek	Professor Strowski,Professor Strowski
Don Hood	Southern Backer
Frank Echols	Doorman
Matthew Barry	Valet
Ralph Monaco	Waiter
Anthony Russell	Busboy
Tommy Bush	Stage Manager
Gregory Walcott	Potential Backer
Charles C. Stevenson Jr.	Another Backer
Rance Howard	Old Man McCoy
Maurice LaMarche	Orson Welles [uncredited]
Alan Martin	Vampira's Assistant
Salwa Ali	Vampira's Girlfriend
Rodney Kizziah	Vampira's Friend
Korla Pandit	Indian Musician
Hannah Eckstein	Greta Johnson
Luc DeSchepper	Karl Johnson
Vinny Argiro	TV Horror Show Director
Patti Tippo	Nurse
Ray Baker	Doctor
James Reid Boyce	Theatre Manager
Ben Ryan Ganger	Angry Kid
Ryan Holihan	Frantic Usher
Marc Revivo	High School Punk
Charlie Holliday	Tourist
Adam Drescher	1st Photographer
Ric Mancini	2nd Photographer
Daniel Riordan	Pilot/Strapping Young Man
Lisa Malkiewicz	Actor
Jonathan Ross	Camera Assistant

Technical Credits

Larry Karaszewski

Scott Alexander

Tim Burton	Director,Producer
Larry Karaszewski	Screenwriter
Paul Boyington	Special Effects
John Branagan	Stunts
Howard Jensen	Special Effects
Michael Lehmann	Executive Producer
Kevin J. Pike	Special Effects
Victoria Thomas	Casting
Scott Alexander	Screenwriter
Edward Tise	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Tim Burton's Ed Wood is a delightfully entertaining and uniquely inspiring film about an artist in love with his medium. Never mind that the artist in question, Edward D. Wood Jr. (played with panache by Johnny Depp), is generally believed to be the worst movie director who ever lived; Burton and screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski play Wood's story mostly for laughs, but they also have a genuine fondness and respect for Wood and his never-ending uphill struggle to put his crackpot ideas on screen. For Wood, any day in which he stood behind the camera was a good day, and if his sets were cardboard, his special effects laughable, his dialogue mind-bogglingly bizarre, and his cast a ragtag band of losers, misfits, and has-beens, none of it mattered as much as the simple fact that he was making a film. Ed loved movies with all his heart and soul, despite his lack of talent, and he surrounded himself with people who, like himself, were drawn to the life-changing magic of Hollywood and determined to be a part of it. While it would be easy (and perhaps more realistic) to show the lives of Ed and his friends as sad, Burton understands that a dream in the face of impractical circumstances is a big part of being a filmmaker, and if these characters often seem goofy, they just as often seem to feel strangely honored to be scraping by in the shadow of the Dream Factory. And the friendship between Ed and the aging Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau), in poor health and addicted to drugs, is touching in the least cloying of ways, as an old man who has been stripped of his dreams finds work with a young man whose dreams still keep him going. Plenty of films have been made about people who made it in Hollywood, but Ed Wood is the best film about the people who didn't, perhaps because Burton seems to understand that the biggest thing separating him from his subject is not talent but luck.