Accidental Brecht: Best of Ed Wood and Poverty Row

There is genius and there is accidental genius and who dares judge the difference? If the anti-narrative disruption of Godard’s films are based on an exhaustive intellectual knowledge of cinema, couldn’t anti-narrative disruption that is the work of a low budget and cuckoo director be judged as no worse or better? And isn’t ultimately the transcendental awe that sometimes comes from seeing ‘through’ the narrative and into the very fabric of filmmaking just as exhilarating in either case?

Of course not! But if you’re old enough to remember UHF TV then you remember seeing PLAN NINE or BRIDE OF THE...