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List Price: $9.99 Our Price: $9.99 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • Live • NTSC In Theaters : 1966 DVD Release : 18 November, 2003 |
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Alice in Wonderland description Fans of Lewis Carroll's classic novel for children will be fascinated by this startling 1966 interpretation by Jonathan Miller, a noted British theater director. Influenced by surrealism and Victorian architecture, Miller's black-and-white version of Wonderland is a dour and creepy place, not the frenetic and charming bustle usually depicted. A bru ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A surreal BBC "Wednesday Play" |
| This is an experimental TV-movie from the BBC's "Wednesday Play" anthology. That series was always willing to risk trying something different, and this ambitious, low-budget "Alice" is certainly different. I wouldn't say I "enjoy" this film exactly, but...
I appreciate it as an experiment in what television could do. I admire the cast of iconic Britons who wouldn't normally coincide in the same project: Peter Sellers, John Gielgud, Leo McKern (in drag as the Duchess), Michael Redgrave, Peter Cook, Wilfrid Brambell, Alan Bennett, Malcolm Muggeridge, etc. I also admire the creativity it took to imagine this quintessentially British tale accompanied by Ravi Shankar music. Some viewers may find the film too creepy and surreal, but the original book is as pretty disturbing to begin with. The film is fairly incoherent, but then so is the book: It follows the scattershot, ever-shifting logic of a dream. The biggest problem (aside from pacing that now seems too leisurely) is that Miller's production assumes you already know what's going on. For instance, it assumes you know that the two men dressed as... um... men are actually the famous Walrus and the Carpenter. In other words, this is an "Alice" for people who are already overdosed on adaptations of "Alice," and who might appreciate a weirdly different take on the familiar story. Or to narrow that audience a bit, people age 12 and up who might appreciate a different take on the story. |
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