Since 1989, we’ve had eight live-action “Batman” movies (not counting the Dceu films) and have yet to see as good an on-screen representation of Gotham as the city from Tim Burton’s first movie about the Caped Crusader.
At least, that would be true if it wasn’t for Bo Welch’s elegant expressionist nightmare from “Batman Returns.” Still, “Batman” production designer Anton Furst created an indelible version of the Dark Knight’s home turf that holds up to this day.As the designer told Time magazine in a 2001 interview, his “riot of architectural styles,” erected at England’s Pinewood Studios, led director Tim Burton to refer to his Gotham as a city where “hell erupted through the pavement and kept on going.” So effective was this foreboding, oppressive, New York-gone-wrong aesthetic that Furst nabbed the Oscar for Best Art Direction in 1990.
It was a well-deserved win for the British artist, who had
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