Monday 12 October 2009

Not long now


Where The Wild Things author Maurice Sendak talks to the LA Times.

"I didn't have a social conscience that I was doing anything different," Sendak, 81, says from his Connecticut home. Mostly, the Brooklyn-born illustrator, then in his early 30s, was excited to tackle his first full picture book. "It was all my own and in full color. It's hard to imagine now, with everyone doing them. But emancipating children was far from my mind."

Variety gives Spike Jonze's film adaptation a cautious thumbs up.

Fleet of foot, emotionally attuned to its subject and instinctively faithful to its celebrated source, Where the Wild Things Are earns a lot of points for its hand-crafted look and unhomogenized, dare-one-say organic rendering of unrestrained youthful imagination. But director Spike Jonze's sharp instincts and vibrant visual style can't quite compensate for the lack of narrative eventfulness that increasingly bogs down this bright-minded picture. Widespread curiosity about the cinematic fate of Maurice Sendak's childhood perennial looks to spur sizable if not stellar commercial results in all markets, including on Imax screens.

4 comments:

Gerard said...

Listening to the very lovely OST right this moment...

Mark Salisbury said...

Haven't picked it up, but my fur covered novelisation by Dave Eggars is en route...

Gerard said...

Mine too! As of this morning, in fact...

Mark Salisbury said...

Amazon must have sent out all the emails at the same time.