‘Ed Wood’
Edward D. Wood Jr. was a 1950s filmmaker of such ineptitude that people who ponder extremes consider him the worst director ever. Tim Burton’s black-and-white 1994 film turned out to be an entertaining and eccentric piece of business. Anchored by a full-throttle, Oscar-winning performance by Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi, “Ed Wood” is a fantasy for the terminally disaffected. Johnny Depp’s (picturd) Wood is an almost holy innocent (KTLA Saturday at 11:30 p.m.).
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