Press release-TIM BURTON exhibition to end in NYC, but will travel to Australia & Canada!!!
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND
MoMA OFFERS EXTENDED EVENING HOURS FOR
FINAL WEEKEND OF THE EXHIBITION
TIM BURTON
Tim Burton Closes on Monday, April 26
Timed Entry Tickets Are Now in Effect Until the Closing of the Exhibition
NEW YORK, April 2, 2010--For the final days of the exhibition Tim Burton, which closes on Monday, April 26, 2010 - The Museum of Modern Art will offer extended hours to the public on Thursday, April 22, Saturday, April 24, and Sunday, April 25. On those dates, the entire Museum will remain open until 8:45 p.m., offering visitors additional opportunities to see Tim Burton and other special exhibitions, including William Kentridge: Five Themes, Picasso: Themes and Variations, and Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (opening April 11).
The exhibition Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present will close at 5:30 p.m. on those dates. The Museum will maintain its regular hours, 10:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., on Friday, April 23 (including Target Free Friday Night from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.).
Timed entry tickets for Tim Burton are required for the remainder of its run, except for MoMA members, who may enter the exhibition at any time upon presenting a valid membership card. Timed tickets are free with regular Museum admission and may be purchased online at MoMA.org ($20 adults; $16 seniors 65 years and over with I.D.; $12 full-time students with current I.D.; free for children 16 and under). No additional service or handling fees are assessed for purchasing Museum admission tickets on MoMA.org, and the ticket permits access to all other Museum galleries and exhibitions. A limited number of timed-entry tickets are available daily at the Museum on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Tim Burton will next travel to the Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia, where it will be on view from June 24 to October 10, 2010, followed by The Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada, from November 22, 2010, to April 17, 2011.
SPONSORSHIP:
Tim Burton is sponsored by Syfy.
Additional funding is provided by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.
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MoMA OFFERS EXTENDED EVENING HOURS FOR
FINAL WEEKEND OF THE EXHIBITION
TIM BURTON
Tim Burton Closes on Monday, April 26
Timed Entry Tickets Are Now in Effect Until the Closing of the Exhibition
NEW YORK, April 2, 2010--For the final days of the exhibition Tim Burton, which closes on Monday, April 26, 2010 - The Museum of Modern Art will offer extended hours to the public on Thursday, April 22, Saturday, April 24, and Sunday, April 25. On those dates, the entire Museum will remain open until 8:45 p.m., offering visitors additional opportunities to see Tim Burton and other special exhibitions, including William Kentridge: Five Themes, Picasso: Themes and Variations, and Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (opening April 11).
The exhibition Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present will close at 5:30 p.m. on those dates. The Museum will maintain its regular hours, 10:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., on Friday, April 23 (including Target Free Friday Night from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.).
Timed entry tickets for Tim Burton are required for the remainder of its run, except for MoMA members, who may enter the exhibition at any time upon presenting a valid membership card. Timed tickets are free with regular Museum admission and may be purchased online at MoMA.org ($20 adults; $16 seniors 65 years and over with I.D.; $12 full-time students with current I.D.; free for children 16 and under). No additional service or handling fees are assessed for purchasing Museum admission tickets on MoMA.org, and the ticket permits access to all other Museum galleries and exhibitions. A limited number of timed-entry tickets are available daily at the Museum on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Tim Burton will next travel to the Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia, where it will be on view from June 24 to October 10, 2010, followed by The Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada, from November 22, 2010, to April 17, 2011.
SPONSORSHIP:
Tim Burton is sponsored by Syfy.
Additional funding is provided by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.
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MoMA-NYC | Tim Burton
PRESS RELEASE
TIM BURTON RETROSPECTIVE
BRINGS TOGETHER HUNDREDS OF ARTWORKS AND FILM-RELATED OBJECTS TO TRACE THE TRAJECTORY OF BURTON’S CREATIVE IMAGINATION
Drawings and Moving Image Works that Have Never Been Previously Exhibited
Reveal the Development of Burton’s Signature Themes and Motifs
Tim Burton Includes Screenings of Burton’s Entire Cinematic Oeuvre of 14 Feature Films
Tim Burton (Art Exhibition)
November 22, 2009–April 26, 2010
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Third Floor
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters and Gallery Lobbies
NEW YORK, November 17, 2009--The Museum of Modern Art presents Tim Burton, a major retrospective exploring the full scale of Tim Burton’s career, both as a director and concept artist for live-action and animated films, and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer.
On view from November 22, 2009, through April 26, 2010, the exhibition brings together over 700 examples of sketchbooks, concept art, drawings, paintings, photographs, and a selection of his amateur films, and is the Museum’s most comprehensive monographic exhibition devoted to a filmmaker.
An extensive film retrospective spanning Burton’s 27-year career runs throughout the exhibition, along with a related series of films that influenced, inspired, and intrigued Burton as a filmmaker.
Tim Burton is organized by Ron Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, and Jenny He, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film, with Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. Tim Burton is sponsored by Syfy.
Picture at Top by Tim Burton. Untitled (from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories). 1998. Pen and ink, watercolor on paper. Overall: 11 x 14" (27.9 x 35.6 cm). Private collection. © 2009 Tim Burton.
Link for Tim Burton Art Exhibition-http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/313
TIM BURTON RETROSPECTIVE
BRINGS TOGETHER HUNDREDS OF ARTWORKS AND FILM-RELATED OBJECTS TO TRACE THE TRAJECTORY OF BURTON’S CREATIVE IMAGINATION
Drawings and Moving Image Works that Have Never Been Previously Exhibited
Reveal the Development of Burton’s Signature Themes and Motifs
Tim Burton Includes Screenings of Burton’s Entire Cinematic Oeuvre of 14 Feature Films
Tim Burton (Art Exhibition)
November 22, 2009–April 26, 2010
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Third Floor
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters and Gallery Lobbies
NEW YORK, November 17, 2009--The Museum of Modern Art presents Tim Burton, a major retrospective exploring the full scale of Tim Burton’s career, both as a director and concept artist for live-action and animated films, and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer.
On view from November 22, 2009, through April 26, 2010, the exhibition brings together over 700 examples of sketchbooks, concept art, drawings, paintings, photographs, and a selection of his amateur films, and is the Museum’s most comprehensive monographic exhibition devoted to a filmmaker.
An extensive film retrospective spanning Burton’s 27-year career runs throughout the exhibition, along with a related series of films that influenced, inspired, and intrigued Burton as a filmmaker.
Tim Burton is organized by Ron Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, and Jenny He, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film, with Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. Tim Burton is sponsored by Syfy.
Picture at Top by Tim Burton. Untitled (from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories). 1998. Pen and ink, watercolor on paper. Overall: 11 x 14" (27.9 x 35.6 cm). Private collection. © 2009 Tim Burton.
Link for Tim Burton Art Exhibition-http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/313
MoMA-NYC | Tim Burton
Film Screenings & Events
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
1985. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens.
With Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton.
With his first feature, Burton established himself as a director with a unique personal style. Pee-wee embarks on a cross-country search for his missing bicycle, a scenario that allows Burton to indulge in whimsical set pieces and extravagant sight gags. Like the elaborate Rube Goldberg–esque contraption (a familiar Burton motif) that facilitates Pee-wee’s morning routine, the simple plot unfolds in visually complex ways. The climactic ride through the Warner Bros. back lot is a montage of zany fun as Pee-wee and his beloved bike zoom through a 1960s beach-party, the North Pole, a Godzilla rampage, a Twisted Sister music video, and Tarzan’s jungle. 90 min.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
(Introduced by Burton)
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 4pm
Sunday, April 11, 2010 @ 5pm
Beetlejuice
1988. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Michael McDowell.
With Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis.
A recently deceased small-town couple are required to haunt their own house for 125 years, but when they are unable to frighten the insufferable urbanites who move in, they hire a “bio-exorcist” to reclaim their home. The director’s cynical version of hell as a bureaucratic waiting room is leavened by such sophomorically gruesome delights as shrunken heads and flattened corpses, creating an atmosphere that shuttles between the world-weary attitudes of adulthood and the unbridled imaginative possibilities of youth. 92 min.
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010 @ 6pm
Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 4pm
Wednesday, April 9, 2010 @ 7pm
Batman
1989. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren.
With Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger.
Eschewing the campy aesthetic of previous Batman movies, Burton’s cerebral, witty take on the Caped Crusader reinvigorated the Batman franchise. Burton, along with production designer Anton Furst, applied his eye for inventive set design to psychologically darker material than in his previous films to create an iconically twisted, phantasmagorical Gotham City—a place unrecognizable to citizens of any city in the real world. 126 min.
Friday, November 20, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 @ 5pm
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 @ 8pm
Monday, April 5, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Vincent [short]
1982. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Tim Burton. With the voice of Vincent Price.
This stop-motion animated short, in which a bored little suburban boy imagines a world worthy of Edgar Allan Poe, anticipates Burton’s flair for dramatic visuals and witty wordplay. 6 min.
With:
Edward Scissorhands
1990. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson.
With Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price.
Arguably Burton’s most personal film, Edward Scissorhands delves into one of his most recurrent themes: disconnection from the world at large and the search for true identity. Edward, left alone in a hilltop castle after his creator’s sudden death, is Burton’s most literal stand-in for Frankenstein’s monster. Incapable of directly touching others with his razor-sharp fingers, he is the physical manifestation of spiritual isolation. When a kind Avon lady discovers him and introduces him to suburbia, his ability to shape things—hedges, hair, ice—into wondrous sculptures engenders a brief welcome. But his acceptance is short-lived in this parable of teenage angst and alienation. 105 min.
Saturday, November 21, 2009, 5:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (with SHORT "Vincent")
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009 @ 5pm (with SHORT "Frankenweenie")
Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 @ 8pm
Monday, April 26, 2010 @ 8pm
Batman Returns
1992. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Sam Hamm, Daniel Waters.
With Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer.
The sequel surpasses the original as Burton plumbs deeper into the Dark Knight’s psyche. The complex villains Catwoman (a mousy, put-upon secretary who unleashes her inner ferocity while teetering on the edge of sanity) and the Penguin (who embraces his rage and penchant for chaos while secretly craving the acceptance he never received from his parents) contribute surprising emotional depth to the comic-book setting. 126 min.
Saturday, November 21, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Saturday, Jan. 28, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 8pm
Monday, April 5, 2010 @ 8pm (with SHORT "Frankenweenie")
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993. USA. Directed by Henry Selick. Story & characters by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson.
With the voices of Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara.
With its ghoulish imagery and manic-depressive antihero, The Nightmare Before Christmas straddles the line between grim children’s fable and gentle horror story. Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, has grown weary of his crown. Obsessed with his recent discovery of this thing called “Christmas,” he attempts to shake off his malaise by usurping the mantle of “Sandy Claws” instead. 76 min.
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 3:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 1:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (with SHORT "Vincent")
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010 @ 2:30pm (with SHORT "Frankenweenie")
Sunday, April 25, 2010 @ 5pm
Frankenweenie [short]
1984. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. With the voices of Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern, Barret Oliver.
Transporting Mary Shelley’s classic tale to Southern California, Burton imagines Frankenstein’s monster in the form of a reanimated family pet. 29 min.
With:
Ed Wood
1994. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, based on Nightmare of Ecstasy by Rudolph Grey.
With Johnny Depp, Martin Landau.
In this offbeat biopic, Burton depicts the titular “World’s Worst Director” with equal amounts of mockery and sympathy. Although unquestionably portrayed as a filmmaker who relied more on gumption than talent, Burton’s Ed Wood is also an earnest man with an absolute belief in his vision and craft. Armed with pure optimism in the face of abject humiliation and rejection, he is the embodiment of hope, Burton’s nod to uncompromising artistic integrity in the face of daunting obstacles. 127 min.
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (with SHORT "Frankenweenie")
Saturday, December 26, 2009, 5:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010 @ 5pm
Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 @ 8pm (with SHORT "Vincent")
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 @ 8pm
Mars Attacks!
1996. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Jonathan Gems, based on the Topps! trading-card series.
With Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Benning, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Natalie Portman, Michael J. Fox.
Aliens (of the green, bulbous-brained, bug-eyed variety) come to Earth, and they do not come in peace. Burton’s hilarious homage to—and parody of—1950s sci-fi B-movies features an ensemble of A-list actors who gamely inhabit outrageous characters in a series of vignettes that build to an apocalyptic climax. 106 min.
Monday, November 23, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Saturday, March 13, 2010 @ 8pm
Saturday, April 17, 2010 @ 4pm
Sleepy Hollow
1999. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker, based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.
With Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken.
Burton’s film transforms Irving’s folktale into a supernatural whodunit, and the original meek schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, into a priggish New York City constable who is sent up the Hudson River to investigate a series of bizarre murders. The film’s macabre humor melds perfectly with the “stylized naturalism” of Burton’s sumptuous production and the addition of Expressionist flourishes to the Dutch Colonial setting. 105 min.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 @ 8pm
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 @ 4:30pm (with SHORT "Vincent")
Planet of the Apes
2001. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by William Broyles Jr., Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal, based on La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle.
With Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter.
This adaptation of Boulle’s novel about humans in an ape-dominated world departs dramatically from Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1968 film version—so much so that it was coined a “reimagining” rather than a “remake.” Burton’s recurrent archetypes abound: his hero finds himself a misunderstood outcast among the native humans and their simian masters; and his ape ally Ari, a part of the established order who nonetheless calls for “human rights,” is a variation on the progressive women common in Burton’s films. 119 min.
Friday, November 27, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Friday, Jan. 1, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010 @ 5:30pm
Thursday, April 8, 2010 @ 7pm
Big Fish
2003. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by John August, based on the novel by Daniel Wallace.
With Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup.
On his deathbed, Edward Bloom retells his life through exaggerated tall tales. This lifelong habit of subjective recollection alienates him from his son Will, who longs to know his “real” father. Burton’s adaptation shifts the focus and sympathy toward the elder Bloom, a character who fits the mold of Burton’s archetype of the flawed and imperfect, yet revered, father. Edward is finally redeemed in his son’s eyes only when the younger Bloom realizes that manipulated and invented reality is often preferable to "the real world." 125 min.
Saturday, November 28, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 4:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 7pm
Monday, April 12, 2010 @ 4pm
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by John August, based the book by Roald Dahl.
With Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter.
Simultaneously one of Burton’s funniest and most poignant films, this perfect union of the sensibilities of Burton and Dahl is filled with unapologetic whimsy, a delight in gruesome humor, and the enduring appeal of the fancies and freedoms of childhood. 115 min.
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 2:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 8pm
Corpse Bride
2005. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton, Mike Johnson. Screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson, Pamela Pettler.
With the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson.
For his second feature-length stop-motion film, Burton transformed a nineteenth-century European folktale about a man caught between two women—one breathing, one not so much—into a musical filled with exquisitely crafted characters who prove that what appears frightening is often just misunderstood. 76 min.
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 5:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Sunday, December 6, 2009, 2:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 4pm
Saturday, April 24, 2010 @ 2pm
Sweeney Todd
2007. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by John Logan, based on the musical by Stephen Sondheim. With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman.
Burton’s filmic adaptation of Sondheim’s tale of tonsorial terror is replete with the filmmaker’s recurrent visual and thematic motifs. The musical numbers allow for fantastic set pieces that alternate between light and dark, revelatory and horrific, and the twisted narrative sets comedy amid the grotesque. 116 min.
Monday, November 30, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 @ 8pm
Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 7pm
Saturday, April 10, 2010 @ 4pm
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Still below from
Corpse Bride. 2005. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Film Screenings & Events
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
1985. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens.
With Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton.
With his first feature, Burton established himself as a director with a unique personal style. Pee-wee embarks on a cross-country search for his missing bicycle, a scenario that allows Burton to indulge in whimsical set pieces and extravagant sight gags. Like the elaborate Rube Goldberg–esque contraption (a familiar Burton motif) that facilitates Pee-wee’s morning routine, the simple plot unfolds in visually complex ways. The climactic ride through the Warner Bros. back lot is a montage of zany fun as Pee-wee and his beloved bike zoom through a 1960s beach-party, the North Pole, a Godzilla rampage, a Twisted Sister music video, and Tarzan’s jungle. 90 min.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
(Introduced by Burton)
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 4pm
Sunday, April 11, 2010 @ 5pm
Beetlejuice
1988. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Michael McDowell.
With Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis.
A recently deceased small-town couple are required to haunt their own house for 125 years, but when they are unable to frighten the insufferable urbanites who move in, they hire a “bio-exorcist” to reclaim their home. The director’s cynical version of hell as a bureaucratic waiting room is leavened by such sophomorically gruesome delights as shrunken heads and flattened corpses, creating an atmosphere that shuttles between the world-weary attitudes of adulthood and the unbridled imaginative possibilities of youth. 92 min.
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010 @ 6pm
Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 4pm
Wednesday, April 9, 2010 @ 7pm
Batman
1989. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren.
With Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger.
Eschewing the campy aesthetic of previous Batman movies, Burton’s cerebral, witty take on the Caped Crusader reinvigorated the Batman franchise. Burton, along with production designer Anton Furst, applied his eye for inventive set design to psychologically darker material than in his previous films to create an iconically twisted, phantasmagorical Gotham City—a place unrecognizable to citizens of any city in the real world. 126 min.
Friday, November 20, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 @ 5pm
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 @ 8pm
Monday, April 5, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Vincent [short]
1982. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Tim Burton. With the voice of Vincent Price.
This stop-motion animated short, in which a bored little suburban boy imagines a world worthy of Edgar Allan Poe, anticipates Burton’s flair for dramatic visuals and witty wordplay. 6 min.
With:
Edward Scissorhands
1990. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson.
With Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price.
Arguably Burton’s most personal film, Edward Scissorhands delves into one of his most recurrent themes: disconnection from the world at large and the search for true identity. Edward, left alone in a hilltop castle after his creator’s sudden death, is Burton’s most literal stand-in for Frankenstein’s monster. Incapable of directly touching others with his razor-sharp fingers, he is the physical manifestation of spiritual isolation. When a kind Avon lady discovers him and introduces him to suburbia, his ability to shape things—hedges, hair, ice—into wondrous sculptures engenders a brief welcome. But his acceptance is short-lived in this parable of teenage angst and alienation. 105 min.
Saturday, November 21, 2009, 5:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (with SHORT "Vincent")
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009 @ 5pm (with SHORT "Frankenweenie")
Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 @ 8pm
Monday, April 26, 2010 @ 8pm
Batman Returns
1992. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Sam Hamm, Daniel Waters.
With Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer.
The sequel surpasses the original as Burton plumbs deeper into the Dark Knight’s psyche. The complex villains Catwoman (a mousy, put-upon secretary who unleashes her inner ferocity while teetering on the edge of sanity) and the Penguin (who embraces his rage and penchant for chaos while secretly craving the acceptance he never received from his parents) contribute surprising emotional depth to the comic-book setting. 126 min.
Saturday, November 21, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Saturday, Jan. 28, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 8pm
Monday, April 5, 2010 @ 8pm (with SHORT "Frankenweenie")
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993. USA. Directed by Henry Selick. Story & characters by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson.
With the voices of Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara.
With its ghoulish imagery and manic-depressive antihero, The Nightmare Before Christmas straddles the line between grim children’s fable and gentle horror story. Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, has grown weary of his crown. Obsessed with his recent discovery of this thing called “Christmas,” he attempts to shake off his malaise by usurping the mantle of “Sandy Claws” instead. 76 min.
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 3:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 1:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (with SHORT "Vincent")
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010 @ 2:30pm (with SHORT "Frankenweenie")
Sunday, April 25, 2010 @ 5pm
Frankenweenie [short]
1984. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. With the voices of Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern, Barret Oliver.
Transporting Mary Shelley’s classic tale to Southern California, Burton imagines Frankenstein’s monster in the form of a reanimated family pet. 29 min.
With:
Ed Wood
1994. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, based on Nightmare of Ecstasy by Rudolph Grey.
With Johnny Depp, Martin Landau.
In this offbeat biopic, Burton depicts the titular “World’s Worst Director” with equal amounts of mockery and sympathy. Although unquestionably portrayed as a filmmaker who relied more on gumption than talent, Burton’s Ed Wood is also an earnest man with an absolute belief in his vision and craft. Armed with pure optimism in the face of abject humiliation and rejection, he is the embodiment of hope, Burton’s nod to uncompromising artistic integrity in the face of daunting obstacles. 127 min.
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (with SHORT "Frankenweenie")
Saturday, December 26, 2009, 5:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010 @ 5pm
Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 @ 8pm (with SHORT "Vincent")
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 @ 8pm
Mars Attacks!
1996. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Jonathan Gems, based on the Topps! trading-card series.
With Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Benning, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Natalie Portman, Michael J. Fox.
Aliens (of the green, bulbous-brained, bug-eyed variety) come to Earth, and they do not come in peace. Burton’s hilarious homage to—and parody of—1950s sci-fi B-movies features an ensemble of A-list actors who gamely inhabit outrageous characters in a series of vignettes that build to an apocalyptic climax. 106 min.
Monday, November 23, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Saturday, March 13, 2010 @ 8pm
Saturday, April 17, 2010 @ 4pm
Sleepy Hollow
1999. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker, based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.
With Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken.
Burton’s film transforms Irving’s folktale into a supernatural whodunit, and the original meek schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, into a priggish New York City constable who is sent up the Hudson River to investigate a series of bizarre murders. The film’s macabre humor melds perfectly with the “stylized naturalism” of Burton’s sumptuous production and the addition of Expressionist flourishes to the Dutch Colonial setting. 105 min.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 @ 8pm
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 @ 4:30pm (with SHORT "Vincent")
Planet of the Apes
2001. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by William Broyles Jr., Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal, based on La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle.
With Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter.
This adaptation of Boulle’s novel about humans in an ape-dominated world departs dramatically from Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1968 film version—so much so that it was coined a “reimagining” rather than a “remake.” Burton’s recurrent archetypes abound: his hero finds himself a misunderstood outcast among the native humans and their simian masters; and his ape ally Ari, a part of the established order who nonetheless calls for “human rights,” is a variation on the progressive women common in Burton’s films. 119 min.
Friday, November 27, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Friday, Jan. 1, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010 @ 5:30pm
Thursday, April 8, 2010 @ 7pm
Big Fish
2003. USA. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by John August, based on the novel by Daniel Wallace.
With Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup.
On his deathbed, Edward Bloom retells his life through exaggerated tall tales. This lifelong habit of subjective recollection alienates him from his son Will, who longs to know his “real” father. Burton’s adaptation shifts the focus and sympathy toward the elder Bloom, a character who fits the mold of Burton’s archetype of the flawed and imperfect, yet revered, father. Edward is finally redeemed in his son’s eyes only when the younger Bloom realizes that manipulated and invented reality is often preferable to "the real world." 125 min.
Saturday, November 28, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 4:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 7pm
Monday, April 12, 2010 @ 4pm
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by John August, based the book by Roald Dahl.
With Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter.
Simultaneously one of Burton’s funniest and most poignant films, this perfect union of the sensibilities of Burton and Dahl is filled with unapologetic whimsy, a delight in gruesome humor, and the enduring appeal of the fancies and freedoms of childhood. 115 min.
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 2:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 8pm
Corpse Bride
2005. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton, Mike Johnson. Screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson, Pamela Pettler.
With the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson.
For his second feature-length stop-motion film, Burton transformed a nineteenth-century European folktale about a man caught between two women—one breathing, one not so much—into a musical filled with exquisitely crafted characters who prove that what appears frightening is often just misunderstood. 76 min.
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 5:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Sunday, December 6, 2009, 2:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 4pm
Saturday, April 24, 2010 @ 2pm
Sweeney Todd
2007. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by John Logan, based on the musical by Stephen Sondheim. With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman.
Burton’s filmic adaptation of Sondheim’s tale of tonsorial terror is replete with the filmmaker’s recurrent visual and thematic motifs. The musical numbers allow for fantastic set pieces that alternate between light and dark, revelatory and horrific, and the twisted narrative sets comedy amid the grotesque. 116 min.
Monday, November 30, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 @ 8pm
Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 7pm
Saturday, April 10, 2010 @ 4pm
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Corpse Bride. 2005. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Tim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters
Tim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters
December 2, 2009–April 26, 2010
In conjunction with MoMA’s career retrospective of artist and filmmaker Tim Burton, the Department of Film presents Tim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters, a series of films that have influenced, inspired, and intrigued Burton, and which reflect the motifs, themes, and sensibilities of his work.
Taking as its starting point horror-movie screenings that Burton organized in his youth, the series spans five decades and includes landmark films of stop-motion animation, German Expressionism, Grand Guignol horror, Universal monsters, and B-grade science-fiction. Burton has said of watching these movies while growing up, “I loved the lurid beauty of these monster movies. They spoke to me. I didn’t understand the world, and these films were somehow symbolic of the way I felt.”
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The Omega Man
1971. USA. Directed by Boris Sagal. With Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash.
Screenplay by John William Corrington, Joyce H. Corrington, based on I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson.
When asked to choose the one film he would bring to a deserted island, Tim Burton playfully recalled this story of the last man on earth. The only human not transformed by a viral epidemic into a light-sensitive creature of the night, Dr. Robert Neville (Heston) walks a razor-thin line between losing his mind and becoming mankind’s savior. 98 min.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 6:00 p.m. , Theater 2, T2
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Monday, April 26, 2010 @ 4pm
Jason and the Argonauts
1963. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Don Chaffey. Screenplay by Jan Read, Beverley Cross.
With Todd Armstrong, Niall MacGinnis, Honor Blackman.
In search of the mythical Golden Fleece, Jason and the crew of the Argo face such perils as a one hundred–foot living statue, bat-winged harpies, and the seven-headed Hydra—all brought to life by legendary special-effects master Ray Harryhausen, one of Tim Burton’s childhood idols. “The stop-motion animation and the kind of reality and scale of it...was really amazing,” says Burton of the film, “[Harryhausen was able to] imbue his monsters with more emotion than most of the actors in those movies.” 104 min.
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 3:15 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Mad Monster Party
1967. USA. Directed by Jules Bass. Screenplay by Forrest J Ackerman, Len Korobkin, Harvey Kurtzman.
With the voices of Boris Karloff, Phyllis Diller.
This Rankin/Bass stop-motion-animated musical features a campy cavalcade of classic horror characters, including Dracula, the Mummy, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as they plot to gain control of Baron von Frankenstein’s secret weapon during a monster convention. The film’s pun-filled humor was an obvious influence on Tim Burton’s cartoon drawings of the early 1980s. 95 min.
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 5:45 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Sunday, December 6, 2009, 5:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Frankenstein
1931. USA. Directed by James Whale. Screenplay by John L. Balderston, Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort, based on the play by Peggy Webling and the novel by Mary Shelley. With Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke, Colin Clive.
This classic Universal horror film, featuring the work of renowned makeup artist Jack Pierce, clearly made an indelible imprint on the young Tim Burton. Frankenstein showcases Karloff as a sympathetic monster whose principal sin is his existence—a prominent theme throughout Burton’s work. 71 min.
Saturday, December 26, 2009, 2:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010 @ 4pm
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) 1920. Germany. Directed by Robert Wiene. Screenplay by Hans Janowitz, Carl Mayer.
With Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt.
In one of the landmark films of German Expressionism, a movement that greatly influenced Tim Burton’s visual style, the somnambulist Cesare commits murder under the control of the sinister Dr. Caligari. The theme of the reluctant villain plays a significant role in Burton’s films, in which characters like Catwoman and Sweeney Todd are made into monsters by the wickedness of others.Silent. 71 min.
Saturday, December 26, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
(With piano accompaniment by Stuart Oderman)
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932. USA. Directed by Robert Florey. With Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Ames.
Screenplay by Florey, Tom Reed, Dale Van Every, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
After the success of Dracula (1931), Universal cast Lugosi in this murder mystery, loosely based on Poe’s tale. With roots in Parisian Grand Guignol and hints of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this film was also an influence on the B-movie director (and Tim Burton muse) Ed Wood, who paid homage to the film in his own Bride of the Monster. Ames plays a variation on Dupin, Poe’s seminal literary detective who gave rise to the tropes and structure of the classic whodunit—a tradition very much embodied in the Ichabod Crane of Burton’s Sleepy Hollow. 61 min.
Sunday, December 27, 2009, 2:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Friday, Jan. 1, 2010 @ 8pm
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Titles in January 2010 include (details added as they become available):
Tod Browning's "Dracula"
Lew Lander's "The Raven"
Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Out of Space"
Ed Wood's "Glen or Glenda"
Ed Wood's "Bride of the Monster"
Roger Corman's "Pit & the Pendulum"
Christy Cabanne's "The Mummy's Hand"
Jack Arnold's "The Creature from the Black Lagoon"
Harold Young's "The Mummy's Tomb"
Val Guest's "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth"
Jack Arnold's "Revenge Of The Creature"
Organized by Jenny He, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film. Special thanks to Wayne Titus, Alice Remsnyder, Elizabeth Quilter, and Charlie Achuff.
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Related Publication
Tim Burton by Ron Magliozzi and Jenny He
MoMA
December 2, 2009–April 26, 2010
In conjunction with MoMA’s career retrospective of artist and filmmaker Tim Burton, the Department of Film presents Tim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters, a series of films that have influenced, inspired, and intrigued Burton, and which reflect the motifs, themes, and sensibilities of his work.
Taking as its starting point horror-movie screenings that Burton organized in his youth, the series spans five decades and includes landmark films of stop-motion animation, German Expressionism, Grand Guignol horror, Universal monsters, and B-grade science-fiction. Burton has said of watching these movies while growing up, “I loved the lurid beauty of these monster movies. They spoke to me. I didn’t understand the world, and these films were somehow symbolic of the way I felt.”
_________________________________________
The Omega Man
1971. USA. Directed by Boris Sagal. With Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash.
Screenplay by John William Corrington, Joyce H. Corrington, based on I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson.
When asked to choose the one film he would bring to a deserted island, Tim Burton playfully recalled this story of the last man on earth. The only human not transformed by a viral epidemic into a light-sensitive creature of the night, Dr. Robert Neville (Heston) walks a razor-thin line between losing his mind and becoming mankind’s savior. 98 min.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 6:00 p.m. , Theater 2, T2
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Monday, April 26, 2010 @ 4pm
Jason and the Argonauts
1963. USA/Great Britain. Directed by Don Chaffey. Screenplay by Jan Read, Beverley Cross.
With Todd Armstrong, Niall MacGinnis, Honor Blackman.
In search of the mythical Golden Fleece, Jason and the crew of the Argo face such perils as a one hundred–foot living statue, bat-winged harpies, and the seven-headed Hydra—all brought to life by legendary special-effects master Ray Harryhausen, one of Tim Burton’s childhood idols. “The stop-motion animation and the kind of reality and scale of it...was really amazing,” says Burton of the film, “[Harryhausen was able to] imbue his monsters with more emotion than most of the actors in those movies.” 104 min.
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 3:15 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Mad Monster Party
1967. USA. Directed by Jules Bass. Screenplay by Forrest J Ackerman, Len Korobkin, Harvey Kurtzman.
With the voices of Boris Karloff, Phyllis Diller.
This Rankin/Bass stop-motion-animated musical features a campy cavalcade of classic horror characters, including Dracula, the Mummy, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as they plot to gain control of Baron von Frankenstein’s secret weapon during a monster convention. The film’s pun-filled humor was an obvious influence on Tim Burton’s cartoon drawings of the early 1980s. 95 min.
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 5:45 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Sunday, December 6, 2009, 5:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Frankenstein
1931. USA. Directed by James Whale. Screenplay by John L. Balderston, Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort, based on the play by Peggy Webling and the novel by Mary Shelley. With Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke, Colin Clive.
This classic Universal horror film, featuring the work of renowned makeup artist Jack Pierce, clearly made an indelible imprint on the young Tim Burton. Frankenstein showcases Karloff as a sympathetic monster whose principal sin is his existence—a prominent theme throughout Burton’s work. 71 min.
Saturday, December 26, 2009, 2:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010 @ 4pm
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) 1920. Germany. Directed by Robert Wiene. Screenplay by Hans Janowitz, Carl Mayer.
With Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt.
In one of the landmark films of German Expressionism, a movement that greatly influenced Tim Burton’s visual style, the somnambulist Cesare commits murder under the control of the sinister Dr. Caligari. The theme of the reluctant villain plays a significant role in Burton’s films, in which characters like Catwoman and Sweeney Todd are made into monsters by the wickedness of others.Silent. 71 min.
Saturday, December 26, 2009, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
(With piano accompaniment by Stuart Oderman)
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 @ 4:30pm
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932. USA. Directed by Robert Florey. With Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Ames.
Screenplay by Florey, Tom Reed, Dale Van Every, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
After the success of Dracula (1931), Universal cast Lugosi in this murder mystery, loosely based on Poe’s tale. With roots in Parisian Grand Guignol and hints of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this film was also an influence on the B-movie director (and Tim Burton muse) Ed Wood, who paid homage to the film in his own Bride of the Monster. Ames plays a variation on Dupin, Poe’s seminal literary detective who gave rise to the tropes and structure of the classic whodunit—a tradition very much embodied in the Ichabod Crane of Burton’s Sleepy Hollow. 61 min.
Sunday, December 27, 2009, 2:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Also screening (Times/dates subject to change) at:
Friday, Jan. 1, 2010 @ 8pm
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Titles in January 2010 include (details added as they become available):
Tod Browning's "Dracula"
Lew Lander's "The Raven"
Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Out of Space"
Ed Wood's "Glen or Glenda"
Ed Wood's "Bride of the Monster"
Roger Corman's "Pit & the Pendulum"
Christy Cabanne's "The Mummy's Hand"
Jack Arnold's "The Creature from the Black Lagoon"
Harold Young's "The Mummy's Tomb"
Val Guest's "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth"
Jack Arnold's "Revenge Of The Creature"
Organized by Jenny He, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film. Special thanks to Wayne Titus, Alice Remsnyder, Elizabeth Quilter, and Charlie Achuff.
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Related Publication
Tim Burton by Ron Magliozzi and Jenny He
MoMA