Filmmakers will sometime make great movies, sometimes they will make awful movies, but it is not often a director will make a great movie about another director who became known for awful movies. Tim Burton’s Ed Wood (1994) tells the story of a director for whom there was no such thing as a bad take and consequently every bad take ended up on film. But god help him, Ed Wood passionately loved movies and led a life that did indeed warrant a great movie. This was the last movie I saw as part of a film club back when I was at the University of Sherbrooke in 2010. It was supposed to be The Last Waltz , which would have been appropriate given it was the club’s last waltz, but Ed Wood is actually a great fit for a group of people who love to watch movies and are sometimes curious about the filmmaking process. This can sometimes be twice as entertaining as the movie itself, especially in the case of Wood who was not only a bizarre character in his own right, but surrounded himself with...