Word: directors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...November library bulletin, Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library Sidney Verba '53 said the Taos system remains "a potential system for us, but not one to which we can yet make a commitment...
...Burton doesn't make movies; he makes alternate universes. In Peewee's Big Adventure, when the director was just starting out, he created a world that revolved around a bicycle with streamers flying from the handlebars; in Edward Scissorhands, it was a creatively stifled suburban neighborhood; and, in Batman Returns, reality was bounded by Gotham Citys perpetually moonlit skyline. Burton's films become dark, contained fantasylands that lure you in as much as they make you wonder what goes on inside his head. From Beetlejuice to Mars Attacks, this director has honed his signature style, a style that...
...Christopher Lee, a London-born actor who, having been in over 250 films and TV shows, holds the title in the Guinness Book of World Records as being the international star with the most screen credits. Such a high-caliber cast demonstrates the power of Tim Burton as a director to attract such talent even for bit parts, and the skill with which he is able to transform even well-known actors into barely recognizable characters...
...These seemingly directionless elaborations, you realize happily at the end, are all part of a grand design. The director wraps up all the intentionally frayed loose ends and cleverly dropped clues in an impressively tight, albeit overly direct, resolution. This finely crafted mystery within the spectacle of it all proves that while almost all of the onscreen characters lose their heads, Burton keeps his screwed on tight...
Sleepy Hollow is only the latest in director Tim Burton's ever-expanding oeuvre of inventively bizarre fairy tales