Of all the morbid beauties in Tim Burton's work, the spooky goth girls and deathly pale boys, none wear their ghoulishness as lightly or winningly as Johnny Depp. And what a bewitching corpse he makes in ''Dark Shadows,'' Mr. Burton's most pleasurable film in years. As Barnabas Collins, the scion of a wealthy family turned unwilling vampire, Mr....
IT was ''Satan's favorite TV show,'' according to a religious tract of the time. Tim Burton, 8 years old when the Gothic daytime soap opera ''Dark Shadows'' came into the world and not quite 13 when it breathed its last, was clearly untroubled that his viewing preferences were similar to those of the Prince of Darkness. ''I should probably have...
LOS ANGELES -- For the next six months, Southern California will be awash in celebrations of Southern California art: close to 170 separate exhibitions at 130 museums and galleries stretching from San Diego to Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. Pacific Standard Time, as this festival is known, is an exhaustive accounting of the birth of the Los...
Timothy William Burton (født 25. august 1958 i Burbank, Californien, USA) er en amerikansk filminstruktør. Han bor i dag i Ojai, Californien og New York.
Han har tegnet hele sit liv, og det var også det, han fik fritiden til at gå med i sin ungdom: At tegne, læse digte af Edgar Allan Poe og se gamle gyserfilm. I 1980 vandt han et stipendium hos Disney og gik i lære som animator i deres studie. I 80'erne skete der ikke det store for Disney, så de lod – heldigvis – Tim lave noget selv ud fra sine egne idéer. Det førte til to små film: