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There are not one but two legends of Orson Welles, overlapping but contradictory.

The filmmaker's early works take over MoMA. When filmmaker Tim Burton's debut feature, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure , arrived in theaters in 1985, it landed with a critical thud.

No list would be complete without his first movie. This film was made in 1984, and was his first big screen debut.

In Tim Burton's world, people have elongated bodies and oversized heads and, sometimes, scissors for hands.

"Is there a doctor here?" asks Tim Burton , feeling his wrist for a pulse, "I think I might be dead." That wouldn't be out of character.

Tim Burton 's career is the ultimate revenge of the art nerd. Mr. Burton, the self-professed alienated child of a dysfunctional family in Burbank, Calif., who funneled his loneliness, pain and grief into drawing cartoons, has found fame, fortune and a beautiful companion by telling cinematic tales of sensitive misfits triumphing over, or succumbing ...

People magazine has named Hollywood film star Johnny Depp the 2009 Sexiest Man Alive.

Hollywood was paying homage to its history and to a great, tried and true character actor who'd also taught generations of screen actors their craft.

In person he's soft-spoken, gentle, with the demeanor of a kindly, slightly mischievous grandfather.

The 411 Movies Top 5 11.06.09: Week 189 - Top 5 Funniest True Story Movies Posted by Trevor Snyder on 11.06.2009 From Catch Me If You Can to Ed Wood , 411's Trevor Snyder, Jeremy Thomas, and Steve Gustafson offer their takes on the funniest movies ever made based on real life events.

Tim Burton is the master of the macbre. His style and vision has created some of the best gothic masterpieces to hit the silver screen in the past 25 years.

Martin Landau: I Worked with a Wooden Actor in Pinocchio! >> Posted By Buckaroo_Banzai 2 hours, 55 minutes ago in Arts & Entertainment The unstoppable Martin Landau is working harder than most actors half his age.

All spotlights will be pointing southwest Monday night in the honor of the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece "North by Northwest," as the famed director's classic "wrong man" thriller celebrates its 50th anniversary at the American Film Institute's Los Angeles Film Festival.

Yes, that's Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Also my long time nemesis. I hate her.

Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here, with my second installment in my newly created and hopefully long-lasting AICN Legends, which will interviews with men and women in the film industry that I consider worthy of the title, whether they're 40 or 80 years old.

Alfred Hitchcock This is perhaps an obvious choice, however, most people tend to overlook the Master of Suspense's early work as well as the relevancy of his last film as a key element in the continuing transition and development of the genre he defined.

THE prospect of slow-walking through a major exhibition celebrating the film career of director Tim Burton at Melbourne's ACMI next June should have every self-respecting cineaste foaming at the gills with anticipation, for there is plenty to celebrate.

Highlights for the week of October 25th include - Were we warned? VisionTV looks at the Mayan prophesy behind the forthcoming movie blockbuster 2012, Oct.

When Heath Ledger died midway through shooting The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus, Terry Gilliam worked around his star's death, casting Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp as Ledger's supernatural alter egos.

WHITE River Cinema in St Austell has unveiled its new digital 3D projection system, becoming the first full-time cinema in England to invest in the next-generation technology.