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The Next Picture Show

#106: (Pt. 1) The Disaster Artist / Ed Wood (1994)

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by James Franco’s new THE DISASTER ARTIST, we look back at another movie about bad movies and the people who make them, Tim Burton’s 1994 comic biodrama ED WOOD. In this half of our discussion, we muse on the motivations driving Wood and Burton alike, locate the emotional core of this highly stylized film, and try to determine what makes a good bad movie, rather than just a plain old bad one. Plus, some feedback on a recent episode and a suggestion for a pairing that might have been. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about ED WOOD, THE DISASTER ARTIST, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730.  **Show Notes** Outro music: “Que Sera Sera,” by Bill Murray w/Mariachi Band (from ED WOOD deleted scenes). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:41.8

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:45.2

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:52.0

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie The Week podcast of it, to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here with Tosha Robinson, Genevieve Koski,

0:58.4

and Scott Tobias. Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum

1:02.5

and that all culture is more interesting in context. So every other week, we get together to talk

1:07.9

over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie. This week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current

1:10.9

movie. This week, we're looking at two movies about bad movies and the people that make

1:15.1

them. Each feature men with dreams that outstrip their abilities, who nonetheless surround

1:19.3

themselves with a crew working to try to make those dreams come true. One wants to be Orson

1:23.6

Wells while working on a shoestring budget and making movies about extraterrestrial grave robbers.

1:28.6

The other wants to be, well, that's not clear.

1:31.4

But he definitely wants to make a movie.

1:32.9

Tasha, could you pull the strings on this week's pairing?

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We are all of us interested in this week's pairing because that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives, or at least the next couple of

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