Ed Wood

If Tim Burton were ever going to make a biopic, it would naturally have to be of someone as odd as he. Wood, the cross-dressing director of some of the most low-budget cheeseball films to ever come out of Hollywood, would have been an easy figure to mock. Yet Burton and his winning cast—including Johnny Depp as Wood and Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi—find the sincerity behind the kitsch, ennobling Wood’s full-blown desire to create, no matter how marginal the final product may be.
Kundun

For someone who’s known as the guy who makes great mob movies, Martin Scorsese has had a wonderfully diverse career. The Color of Money, Cape Fear, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Age of Innocence—he’s been all over the place. And then there was Kundun. The story of the 14th Dalai Lama, a young man who has to deal with a) figuring out what it means to be the Dalai Lama and b) aggression from his Chinese neighbors to the east, the movie is pretty, tender and wise.













