Tim Burton To Get MoMA Exhibit

Variety:

The visually inventive filmmaker behind "Edward Scissorhands," "Batman" and "Sweeney Todd," among others, will be the subject of "Tim Burton," a major exhibition at Gotham's Museum of Modern Art beginning Nov. 22 and running through April 26.

The show will include more than 700 pieces: paintings, drawings, storyboards, maquettes, puppets and other work created or designed by Burton. MoMA will also screen a complete retrospective of the helmer's 14 films over the course of the show.

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Comments

[Caymus77]

Anyone who has seen Tim Burton's movies knows that he posseses a unique perspective. His artistic sense is on full display in his movies. Burton's Batman movies stand out for their industrial darkness,Sleepy Hollow for the gadgetry of Depp's investigator,the campiness of the Mars Attacks! Martians, and let's not forget the look of Beetlejuice.

Too bad this exhibit is on the East Coast.

[sosgemini]

"There is no other living filmmaker possessing Tim Burton's level of accomplishment and reputation whose full body of work has been so well hidden from public view," Maggliozi said.

Sorry, I call BS on this. Two words: David Lynch

[Zengeist]

I agree, and including - up until recently, anyway, re: hidden from public - the Coen Brothers as well.

[MightyMeno]

Long live the Coen Brothers!

[Caymus77]

David Lynch? Not even in the same class artwise.

Lynch is a disturbing director.

See Eraserhead if you doubt that.

[tkondaks]

I can only imagine how wonderful his art works must be...and if I was in the New York area, I would visit MoMA in an instant.

How could the art NOT be good coming from the guy who gave us "Ed Wood", "Batman", the headless horseman movie (forget the name at the moment), etc.

[Zengeist]

Sleepy Hollow. Ed Wood is a fine film. And his wife Helena is a remarkable artist and babe.

[JGatsby]

Well I've seen an exhibit on motorcycles and burlap/wood concotions at the Gugenheim so this can't be too much worse.