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...nearly 200 years the tale has kept children awake and atremble--or lulled them to sleep with Washington Irving's drolly orotund style. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is still a bedtime staple in tonier households, and with its Headless Horseman hurling a grimacing pumpkin at the head of Ichabod Crane, the story helped create the American giddying-up of Halloween as a funny fright night. But like so many old fables, Sleepy Hollow is chiefly remembered in its Disney version. That 1958 cartoon short, a genial mix of comedy and anxiety, took its tone from the voice...
...Sleepy Hollow is only the latest in director Tim Burton's ever-expanding oeuvre of inventively bizarre fairy tales
Today, the latest film from Tim Burton, the mind behind such quirky films as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Edward Scissorhands as well as megahits like Batman and Batman Returns releases the latest in his canon, Sleepy Hollow. From the looks of it, the film will fit right in with its freakish characters, dark, imaginative sets and the pervading sense of fantasy that can be found in all of Burton's work...
...trio of Burton's films to be set at Christmastime. It enjoyed moderate success, and remains the most earnest work in Burton's canon. It also forged a relationship between Burton and Johnny Depp, which would eventually lead to their working together on Ed Wood and, ultimately, Sleepy Hollow. In 1992, Burton returned to the familiar Batworld to direct Batman Returns. The story, focusing on Batman's struggle against both the Penguin and Catwoman, starred Keaton again, as well as Danny Devito and Michelle Pfeiffer in the respective villain roles. Though successful, the movie was perceived as being much darker...
...Burton returns to more twisted territories with Sleepy Hollow. Working once again with Depp, who this time steps into the role of the idiosyncratic Ichabod Crane (now a detective and not, as readers of the original tale may recall, a schoolteacher), Burton's film looks like yet another plunge into unique style, his personal fantasies that are always so entertaining to the rest of the world. One of the few directors who can be said to have a "stable" of actors (including Depp, Jeffrey Jones and Lisa Marie, among others), Burton has made a name for himself through blockbusters that...