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DVD : Jan Svankmajer's Alice/Shorts [1988]
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Binding: DVD EAN: 9786305779636 Format: Animated, Colour, DVD-Video, Live, PAL ISBN: 6305779635 Label: First Run Features Manufacturer: First Run Features Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Publisher: First Run Features Release Date: April 11, 2000 Running Time: 91 minutes Sales Rank: 8247 Studio: First Run Features Theatrical Release Date: 1988 |
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
This adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland mixes animation and live action to create a dreamlike world, but don't let that fool you into thinking it's simply a kid's film. Young Alice (Kristyna Kohoutová, spoken by Camilla Power) watches a stuffed and mounted rabbit come to life in her playroom and follows it through a magical drawer into a strange world that resembles a 19th-century toy store come to life, with a few specimens from a natural history museum thrown in. Czech animator Jan Svankmajer retains the familiar story elements but tweaks them with bizarre imagery brought to herky-jerky life with his spasmodic style of stop-motion animation. The caterpillar becomes a sock puppet with dentures, while other crazy creatures materialise as creepy skull-headed beings that bleed sawdust. Throughout the tale Svankmajer returns to punctuating close-ups of Alice's lips telling the story, just to remind us that this is a tale told. In the best surrealist tradition Svankmajer uses familiar objects in unfamiliar ways, giving a fantasy quality to the banal (and the not so banal) while tipping the dream logic to the edge of nightmare. While the imagery remains more unsettling than genuinely disturbing, younger children will certainly be happier with Disney's brightly coloured animated classic Alice in Wonderland. Older children and adults will better appreciate Svankmajer's sly visual wit and unusual animation style. --Sean Axmaker
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- Children will love it!This isn't a review, it's just to let you know.
I have lived with this film all my life, and it's one of the few films that absolutely made my childhood. I loved it. Seeing a slab of meat squidge across the table and slither into a pot was not scary in the least back then, although looking at the film now I can understand why my nan always groaned when I said I wanted to watch it. I didn't think anything of the animal skulls or the fact that the white rabbit was stuffed. In fact we had ... Read More
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- ALICE and ALICEThe 2 film versions of Lewis Carroll's ALICE'S ADVENTURES under GROUND (later to become Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) that, in my opinion, capture the adult implications, politics and satire of the book are:
Jan Svankmajer's ALICE which is indeed a classic film and quite terrifying in parts
and
Jonathan Miller's ALICE IN WONDERLAND (BBC 1966) which is an equally unmissable film
as Mr. Carroll writes:
" ...... everyone must have prizes ......" make yourself ... Read More
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- suitable for children than disneyI am really writing in reponse to those who suggest that this DVD is too dark for children. My children (girls age 4 and 2) saw this in the late 80's and called it the 'real' alice, prefering to watch it over and above the disney version which stayed in pristine condition in the video cupboard. I have lost count of how many times they watched this film - they never tired of it. So why did they like it? Who knows. THey were never scared of it as far as I could see. Perhaps it said someting to them about their ... Read More
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- let them watch!!!Like some other reviewers, my parents taped this from late night telly for me to watch, back in the depths of childhood.
As for this film not being suitable to children, I say - pish!
Disurbing images, etc etc - it's only wierd to *rational* grown-ups, who've had a lifetime of conditioning in what consitutes *normal* film-making.
As a child, I loved this film, thought it was crazy, beautiful and amazing - it didn't give me nightmares, or make me afraid of milk or meat, because I didn't know it ... Read More
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- Bizarre animated contrasts litter this czech wonder!Jan Svankmajer does a wonderful adaptation of Lewis Carolls classic childrens tale. Perhaps for a more mature audiences because of its disturbing photography and animated ideas. Still nevertheless this film goes without saying that it is a brilliant piece of magical yet truly mystifing production! This a european gem! A must-see and must buy for all Jan Svankmajer fans!!!!
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