Showing posts with label Ed Wood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ed Wood. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Ed Wood (April 14th at the CWRU Film Society, Strosacker Auditorium)


[ED WOOD screens Saturday April 14th at 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm at the CWRU Film Society, Strosacker Auditorium,]

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

I happened to learn the tuition rates lately charged by some of our local colleges. Would you believe more than $100,000 a year? In Cleveland? Most graduates at this point probably won't even earn that much in their lifetimes. Add student-loan compound interest and you've got a recipe for a post-grad career major in Despair and a minor in Anger.

And it's especially piquant for the film students, those who, on top of merely paying for the privilege to attend some con-job learning institution, slave for production costs, film-festival entry fees, psychiatric counseling etc., working themselves into deeper and deeper holes trying to gain a foothold in a tough media industry overwhelmed with applicants. And all the while it stares them in the face, that even if they “make it,” most of them will never, ever be as renowned and as loved as the exceptionally bad filmmaker-tranvestite Ed Wood Jr.