To coincide with the March 5 release of Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, the BFI Southbank asked me to program a season of Alice films. Running from March 5-17, the season features Alice (1965), Dennis Potter's TV drama (pictured above) that was the template for Gavin Millar's remarkable Dreamchild which is also showing, along with Paramount's little-seen 1933 Alice In Wonderland which stars Cary Grant, Gary Cooper and WC Fields, among others, Jan Svankmajer's creepy Alice (1988), Jonathan Miller's BBC production and the 1949 Anglo-French Alice Wonderland (pictured below) which is perhaps the most faithful adaptation to date.
I had hoped to include the 1903 Cecil Hepworth version but it's been restored by the BFI and will be shown separately. Here it is, anyway.
Click here for all the details of the season and how to order tickets.
Nice! I think I'm going to see the Burton one first, to have a fresh eye on it, and then go to the BFI see the old one, and then read the book again (yeah, I know, you're supposed to do it the other way but, oh well!)
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Oh, wow...
Currently re-reading the books. This looks remarkable.
Nice! I think I'm going to see the Burton one first, to have a fresh eye on it, and then go to the BFI see the old one, and then read the book again (yeah, I know, you're supposed to do it the other way but, oh well!)
I don't think the order you watch/read matters too much. In fact, I think mix and matching is a very Carrollesque thing to do...
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