There were numerous superstars during the silent era from the clown princes of comedy Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd to such dramatic and action icons as Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson and Lillian Gish. One was a good boy — the German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin. Not only is Rin Tin Tin, aka Rinty, credited with saving Warner Bros., but Hollywood lore also insists he, not Emil Jannings, was the first Best Actor Oscar winner.
With Warner Brothers celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and the Academy Awards just around the corner, it’s time to look at the Rinty phenomenon and its place in Hollywood history.
Rinty wasn’t the first canine star. Blair, the pet collie of British director Cecil Hepworth, headlined his 1905 thriller “Rescued by Rover.” The film was so popular it had to be shot twice because the...
With Warner Brothers celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and the Academy Awards just around the corner, it’s time to look at the Rinty phenomenon and its place in Hollywood history.
Rinty wasn’t the first canine star. Blair, the pet collie of British director Cecil Hepworth, headlined his 1905 thriller “Rescued by Rover.” The film was so popular it had to be shot twice because the...
- 2/27/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Uggie: 'The Artist' dog star. Uggie, 'The Artist' scene-stealing dog star, has died The biggest non-human movie star of the 21st century, Uggie, whose scene-stealing cuteness helped to earn Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist the 2011 Best Picture Academy Award, has died. According to his official Facebook page, Uggie had been suffering from prostate cancer; he was euthanized last Friday, Aug. 7, '15. Born in 2002, Uggie was 13 years old. An announcement posted on Tuesday night, Aug. 11, on the Fb page Consider Uggie read: We regret to inform to all our friends, family and Uggie's fans that our beloved boy has passed away. We were not planning on posting anything until we healed a little more but unfortunately somebody leaked it to TMZ and they will be announcing it. In short, Uggie had a cancerous tumor in the prostate and is now in a better place not feeling pain.
- 8/12/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
There is a fascinating but little-known prequel to Indian cinema that goes right back to silent films made in the 1890s
In October 1917, Hiralal Sen was sick, bankrupt and just a few days away from death when he received some cruel news. His brother's warehouse was on fire and, as it burned, Sen's career as a film-maker went up in flames. The warehouse contained the entire stock of the Royal Bioscope Company, the Sen brothers' firm, which showed and produced films in the Kolkata area in the early years of the 20th century. The blaze destroyed Sen's films, and with them much of the proof of India's early cinema history.
The centenary celebrations suggest that Indian film production began in 1913, but that is far from the truth. "The history of Indian cinema before 1913 is a fragmentary one, but it is no less interesting for that," says Luke McKernan, moving...
In October 1917, Hiralal Sen was sick, bankrupt and just a few days away from death when he received some cruel news. His brother's warehouse was on fire and, as it burned, Sen's career as a film-maker went up in flames. The warehouse contained the entire stock of the Royal Bioscope Company, the Sen brothers' firm, which showed and produced films in the Kolkata area in the early years of the 20th century. The blaze destroyed Sen's films, and with them much of the proof of India's early cinema history.
The centenary celebrations suggest that Indian film production began in 1913, but that is far from the truth. "The history of Indian cinema before 1913 is a fragmentary one, but it is no less interesting for that," says Luke McKernan, moving...
- 7/25/2013
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
Hitchcock's silents are now on the Memory of the World register – I can think of five others that deserve the same recognition
If, when you consider our national heritage, you think of murder, guilt, sex and cheeky humour – well, somebody out there agrees with you. The decision to add Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent movies to Unesco's UK Memory of the World register puts his early work on a cultural par with the Domesday Book and Field Marshal Douglas Haig's war diaries – also selected for the list this year.
The nine silents were all directed by Hitchcock in the 1920s and include better-known films in the director's classic thriller mode such as The Lodger and Blackmail as well as comedies (Champagne, The Farmer's Wife) a boxing movie (The Ring) and dramas (The Pleasure Garden, Downhill, Easy Virtue and the lush, rustic romance The Manxman). The collection was nominated by the BFI,...
If, when you consider our national heritage, you think of murder, guilt, sex and cheeky humour – well, somebody out there agrees with you. The decision to add Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent movies to Unesco's UK Memory of the World register puts his early work on a cultural par with the Domesday Book and Field Marshal Douglas Haig's war diaries – also selected for the list this year.
The nine silents were all directed by Hitchcock in the 1920s and include better-known films in the director's classic thriller mode such as The Lodger and Blackmail as well as comedies (Champagne, The Farmer's Wife) a boxing movie (The Ring) and dramas (The Pleasure Garden, Downhill, Easy Virtue and the lush, rustic romance The Manxman). The collection was nominated by the BFI,...
- 7/12/2013
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
During a year when Indian Cinema is celebrating 100 years since the first moving picture was made, the writers of BollySpice have decided to put together a feature series which pays tribute to this phenomenal and charismatic industry. Titled ‘Framing Movies’, this special series during the course of 2013 will chronicle and assess some of the greatest and most significant films that Hindi Cinema has ever produced during its 100 year history. They will attempt to persuade film lovers across the world why specific films deserve recognition, why you should watch them if you have never encountered them before, as well as why they deserve to be remembered for another 100 years. Whether it is Raja Harishchandra (1913), Mother India (1957) or Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), these feature articles will illustrate the best of Hindi cinema. This series will Only explore Hindi cinema in the last 100 years and we acknowledge that by no means is the...
- 4/21/2013
- by Katherine Matthews
- Bollyspice
Jason Solomons on all the gossip from Tilda Swinton's Film on the Rocks festival in Thailand
Realm of the Six Senses
Film festivals come in all themes and sizes and give prizes from Golden Bears to Audience Awards – but if there were an award for the world's most exclusive, it would surely go to Film on the Rocks, inaugurated and curated by Tilda Swinton and Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul last week at the blissful Six Senses resort on Koh Yao Noi, a tiny island off Phuket in Thailand. I'm not really sure what it was I just attended in the line of journalistic duty – "Castaways," Swinton called the assembled guests. "Not quite a festival but a mind orgy," preferred Apichatpong (a national hero following his 2010 win at Cannes with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives). A diverse selection of guests included British director Joanna Hogg (if...
Realm of the Six Senses
Film festivals come in all themes and sizes and give prizes from Golden Bears to Audience Awards – but if there were an award for the world's most exclusive, it would surely go to Film on the Rocks, inaugurated and curated by Tilda Swinton and Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul last week at the blissful Six Senses resort on Koh Yao Noi, a tiny island off Phuket in Thailand. I'm not really sure what it was I just attended in the line of journalistic duty – "Castaways," Swinton called the assembled guests. "Not quite a festival but a mind orgy," preferred Apichatpong (a national hero following his 2010 win at Cannes with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives). A diverse selection of guests included British director Joanna Hogg (if...
- 3/18/2012
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Magic moments in films rarely need words, says Nicholas Wright, as his play about Hollywood, Travelling Light, hits the stage
God knows how many films I've seen in my life (about one a day is my average), but I've seldom witnessed such a receptive audience as I did for The Artist the other week. Memories of all the silent films I watched during my childhood came swinging back to me; looking around, the rest of the cinema seemed to bask in a similarly rapt and innocent haze of pleasure. When it was over, they clapped as they would at the end of an exceptionally good play.
Of all the many strengths of Michel Hazanavicius's film, the absence of words is the greatest. No words means no reliance on a form of communication that isn't, in fact, anything like as effective as we think. The language of gesture often says...
God knows how many films I've seen in my life (about one a day is my average), but I've seldom witnessed such a receptive audience as I did for The Artist the other week. Memories of all the silent films I watched during my childhood came swinging back to me; looking around, the rest of the cinema seemed to bask in a similarly rapt and innocent haze of pleasure. When it was over, they clapped as they would at the end of an exceptionally good play.
Of all the many strengths of Michel Hazanavicius's film, the absence of words is the greatest. No words means no reliance on a form of communication that isn't, in fact, anything like as effective as we think. The language of gesture often says...
- 1/16/2012
- by Nicholas Wright
- The Guardian - Film News
Hang around in Calderdale, and you could well end up in a movie. Our Hebden Bridge outpost, Jill Robinson, reels off some the greats
Last year saw the premiere at the Hebden Bridge Picture House of the film A Calder Valley Christmas, with local people (including this outpost of the Northerner) queuing around the block to be among the first to see it. Directed by local film-maker Nick Wilding, the piece combines archive material, reminiscences about bad winters, carols, poems, scenes of local Mummers and other traditions, and monologues by the incomparable Ian Dewhirst MBE. (He actually lives in Keighley, but he tells such a good tale that he is often invited over the hill.) Like all the best films, there is an accompanying song, Christmas in Hebden Bridge, performed by children from local schools.
However, this is by no means the only film to have used the dramatic natural...
Last year saw the premiere at the Hebden Bridge Picture House of the film A Calder Valley Christmas, with local people (including this outpost of the Northerner) queuing around the block to be among the first to see it. Directed by local film-maker Nick Wilding, the piece combines archive material, reminiscences about bad winters, carols, poems, scenes of local Mummers and other traditions, and monologues by the incomparable Ian Dewhirst MBE. (He actually lives in Keighley, but he tells such a good tale that he is often invited over the hill.) Like all the best films, there is an accompanying song, Christmas in Hebden Bridge, performed by children from local schools.
However, this is by no means the only film to have used the dramatic natural...
- 12/20/2011
- by Jill Robinson
- The Guardian - Film News
At a press conference at the National Media Museum yesterday, Artistic Director Tony Earnshaw announced the full programme details for the 17th Bradford International Film Festival (Biff). This year the Festival, which runs from 16th – 2th7 March will open with Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger starring Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones, Lucy Punch, Freida Pinto, Pauline Collins, Ewen Bremner and Anna Friel.
The Closing Night Gala will be the UK Premiere of Oren Moverman’s The Messenger starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton and Steve Buscemi. The Festival will showcase more than 100 features from countries all over the world including France, Romania, Australia, USA, Argentina, Portugal and Japan.
A selection of horror films will be featured in the new strand introduced this year titled Bradford After Dark, an all-day mini “fest within a fest” that focuses on some of...
The Closing Night Gala will be the UK Premiere of Oren Moverman’s The Messenger starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton and Steve Buscemi. The Festival will showcase more than 100 features from countries all over the world including France, Romania, Australia, USA, Argentina, Portugal and Japan.
A selection of horror films will be featured in the new strand introduced this year titled Bradford After Dark, an all-day mini “fest within a fest” that focuses on some of...
- 2/23/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
After global search for last remaining negative, Cecil Hepworth's 1921 classic to be shown in Yorkshire town where it premiered
A classic British film which helped the birth of the Hollywood star-and-blockbuster system is to be screened again in the UK after an international search for the last remaining negative.
Packed with 19th-century northern melodrama, from broody moors to cobbles, the 90-minute silent epic Helen of Four Gates was last shown in this country in the 1920s.
Based on a novel by a Yorkshire mill girl, who took the literary world by storm at the end of the first world war, the film had punters queuing at cinemas when it was released in 1921. Critics acknowledged the power of the much-clogged and be-shawled cast, and especially the landscape of Hebden Bridge in the Pennines where the pioneer director Cecil Hepworth did much of the filming.
But in spite of the accolades...
A classic British film which helped the birth of the Hollywood star-and-blockbuster system is to be screened again in the UK after an international search for the last remaining negative.
Packed with 19th-century northern melodrama, from broody moors to cobbles, the 90-minute silent epic Helen of Four Gates was last shown in this country in the 1920s.
Based on a novel by a Yorkshire mill girl, who took the literary world by storm at the end of the first world war, the film had punters queuing at cinemas when it was released in 1921. Critics acknowledged the power of the much-clogged and be-shawled cast, and especially the landscape of Hebden Bridge in the Pennines where the pioneer director Cecil Hepworth did much of the filming.
But in spite of the accolades...
- 5/31/2010
- by Martin Wainwright
- The Guardian - Film News
We decided to start our little research of immortal young lady Alice in Wonderland, that still, after exactly 145 years, has a power to inspire directors all over the world.
You all guess that the main reason for this certainly is the latest, Tim Burton’s new incarnation of this story.
But let’s start from a beginning. We were all young, we all liked fairy-tales (well, some of us still do), and enjoyed so many characters, we all had our special heroes. Then, what’s so magical about this story, when it still manages to stay on the top of the list?
Ok, we all know the facts, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is written by the English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who used a pseudonym Lewis Carroll. The story tells what happens to a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world which is populated...
You all guess that the main reason for this certainly is the latest, Tim Burton’s new incarnation of this story.
But let’s start from a beginning. We were all young, we all liked fairy-tales (well, some of us still do), and enjoyed so many characters, we all had our special heroes. Then, what’s so magical about this story, when it still manages to stay on the top of the list?
Ok, we all know the facts, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is written by the English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who used a pseudonym Lewis Carroll. The story tells what happens to a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world which is populated...
- 3/13/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Thank the British Film Institute’s National Archive that the film is in at least passably watchable shape: The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen [Tim Burton cast his wife, Helena Bonham Carter, in the same role], and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet. With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film's original colours for the first time in over 100 years.
- 3/10/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
With the recent release of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, I thought we'd take a look at the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's tale, which was created 107 years ago. Recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet. With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the ...
- 3/8/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Haven't seen Tim Burton's latest trip-out costume party yet? Don't feel like going, either from opening day fatigue or a lack of the supplemental fungi enhancement? Don't feel too bad. The beauty of Lewis Carroll's creation is that it's so seemingly random and outlandish that, over the years, many-a filmmakers have tried to re-imagine the story into their version of the bizarre. Alice always stays Alice, but with each film, we get a vision of Wonderland that becomes as weird or as cheerful as the filmmakers allow them to be.
And so, here are ten of the notable Wonderlands to seek, either for cultural relevancy or plain good entertainment.
• • •
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
We shall start, naturally, with what is obviously the most famous adaptation of them all, courtesy of Walt Disney animation. Much of the misconception of what characters are in which books come from this trippy gem,...
And so, here are ten of the notable Wonderlands to seek, either for cultural relevancy or plain good entertainment.
• • •
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
We shall start, naturally, with what is obviously the most famous adaptation of them all, courtesy of Walt Disney animation. Much of the misconception of what characters are in which books come from this trippy gem,...
- 3/7/2010
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
Move over Tim Burton. In the week that Hollywood's eminent eccentric releases his big-budget, 3D extravaganza, the first-ever film of Alice in Wonderland has been rediscovered and is fast becoming a YouTube sensation. Made in 1903, just eight years after the birth of cinema, the extraordinary piece of film history was thought to be lost forever. Its director, Cecil Hepworth, had gone bankrupt in 1924 and the negatives of his back catalogue were melted down for silver. Then in 1963 a cinema in Hove discovered an original tinted print in a dusty storeroom. "It really is a tragic object to look at," says Robin Baker, head curator of the BFI National Archive. "The emulsion is flaking off the print." Though several scenes are damaged beyond repair, the BFI restored what was left and is now streaming it, free, online.
- 3/5/2010
- The Independent - Film
Chicago – As a character in Syfy’s version of “Alice” says, “Does this look like a kid’s story to you?” Excepting, of course, the beloved Disney version, there have actually been a number of takes on “Alice in Wonderland” arguably made more for adults than children. Two such versions from very different eras have been released on Blu-ray and DVD to coincide with the theatrical dominance of Johnny Depp & Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”. Can’t get enough of Alice and The Mad Hatter? Pick up one or both of these.
“Alice” Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0
“Alice” (2009)
Syfy’s take on “Alice” is, of course, going to be untraditional. I’m all for reimaginings of classic tales but this one never quite comes together despite adding elements of science fiction to the oft-told tale. It’s not for lack of effort. Caterina Scorsone is a charming lead as a twenty-something...
“Alice” Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0
“Alice” (2009)
Syfy’s take on “Alice” is, of course, going to be untraditional. I’m all for reimaginings of classic tales but this one never quite comes together despite adding elements of science fiction to the oft-told tale. It’s not for lack of effort. Caterina Scorsone is a charming lead as a twenty-something...
- 3/4/2010
- by BrianTT
- HollywoodChicago.com
The first ever film adaptation of the beloved story Alice in Wonderland has been recently restored by the British Film Institute and made available to the public on YouTube.
Since its publication in 1865, the classic novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass have been adapted for the silver screen multiple times.
The most recent adaptation of the story is the much-anticipated film directed by Tim Burton, and staring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway. The film is scheduled for release this Friday, March 5th in 3D.
The original Alice in Wonderland film was created in 1903, just 37 years after Lewis Carroll published his famous classic, and eight years after the birth of cinema. With a running time of over 12 minutes, (only 8 of which survive today) the film was the longest produced in England and the time. Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow directed the picture,...
Since its publication in 1865, the classic novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass have been adapted for the silver screen multiple times.
The most recent adaptation of the story is the much-anticipated film directed by Tim Burton, and staring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway. The film is scheduled for release this Friday, March 5th in 3D.
The original Alice in Wonderland film was created in 1903, just 37 years after Lewis Carroll published his famous classic, and eight years after the birth of cinema. With a running time of over 12 minutes, (only 8 of which survive today) the film was the longest produced in England and the time. Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow directed the picture,...
- 3/3/2010
- by Natasia
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
This weekend, Tim Burton’s fancy 3D version of Alice In Wonderland finally opens in theaters, joining a long line of Alice film interpretations.
But way before 3D vs. 2D considerations – before color film and even talkies, actually – Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, two English filmmakers at the turn of the century, created the first cinematic adaptation just 37 years after Lewis Carrol published his now classic masterpiece.
Recently, the British Film Institute Archive restored what’s left of the last remaining print of their version, and then they were nice enough to put it on YouTube and share it with us. Check it out and think about how far through the looking glass Alice has come:...
But way before 3D vs. 2D considerations – before color film and even talkies, actually – Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, two English filmmakers at the turn of the century, created the first cinematic adaptation just 37 years after Lewis Carrol published his now classic masterpiece.
Recently, the British Film Institute Archive restored what’s left of the last remaining print of their version, and then they were nice enough to put it on YouTube and share it with us. Check it out and think about how far through the looking glass Alice has come:...
- 3/3/2010
- by henri
- OriginalAlamo.com
Just in time for the arrival of Tim Burton's new, somewhat sequel-ized mo-capped 3D version of Alice in Wonderland comes video of the first ever film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book from 1903, courtesy of the British Film Institute Archive. Though the book (originally called Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) was published in 1865, it wasn't until eight years after the birth of cinema that the initial adaptation -- directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Snow -- came about. Other Alice adaptations followed shortly after in 1910 (first version made in the United States) and 1915 (both, including the 1903 version, were silent), and the first Alice adaptation with sound came in 1931. From that point on, there's been over 20 different adaptations of Carroll's original book on the big and small screen, concluding with the version that's about to hit theaters on Friday.
From the YouTube description: "The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's...
From the YouTube description: "The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's...
- 3/3/2010
- by Erik Davis
- Cinematical
Tim Burton's 3D spectacle is only the latest in a long line of films inspired by Lewis Carroll's creation. The BFI has unveiled the very first one
Even in 1903, it seems, Alice in Wonderland was an irresistible invitation to creators of movie special effects. The BFI has put on YouTube what it reports to be the first-ever movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll's story – a wildly episodic 10-minute silent (originally 12 minutes; I suppose that might have helped) in which one spectacular scene after another is introduced with authentically Victorian-looking titling.
The BFI holds the only known copy – found, it says, in the possession of a cinema manager in Hove, and badly water-damaged. Despite being carefully restored, it reaches us through a blizzard of damaged emulsion. But there is plenty to enjoy. Even the scratchiness – along with the delicately shifting tints brought back by the restoration – mean that it...
Even in 1903, it seems, Alice in Wonderland was an irresistible invitation to creators of movie special effects. The BFI has put on YouTube what it reports to be the first-ever movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll's story – a wildly episodic 10-minute silent (originally 12 minutes; I suppose that might have helped) in which one spectacular scene after another is introduced with authentically Victorian-looking titling.
The BFI holds the only known copy – found, it says, in the possession of a cinema manager in Hove, and badly water-damaged. Despite being carefully restored, it reaches us through a blizzard of damaged emulsion. But there is plenty to enjoy. Even the scratchiness – along with the delicately shifting tints brought back by the restoration – mean that it...
- 3/2/2010
- by Peter Robins
- The Guardian - Film News
The event was entitled ‘Curiouser and Curiouser: The Genius of Alice In Wonderland’ and it was a glorious celebration of the Lewis Carroll stories in anticipation of the Disney adaptation, directed by Tim Burton and out next week.
The chance to see Michael Sheen and Sir Christopher Lee read from the original stories, and to hear an appreciation of the enduring legacy of Alice from author Will Self, was too good to pass up, and so we took our seats in the British Library as the two cast members took their place alongside Richard Zanuck, the eminent producer who, it seems, must be introduced with the epithet ‘the legendary’, to enjoy an evening with Alice.
It was an intimate affair, with no more than a hundred people in a small auditorium, there amidst the Carrollians and the haggle of assorted Alices we sat and listened to Michael Sheen reading the...
The chance to see Michael Sheen and Sir Christopher Lee read from the original stories, and to hear an appreciation of the enduring legacy of Alice from author Will Self, was too good to pass up, and so we took our seats in the British Library as the two cast members took their place alongside Richard Zanuck, the eminent producer who, it seems, must be introduced with the epithet ‘the legendary’, to enjoy an evening with Alice.
It was an intimate affair, with no more than a hundred people in a small auditorium, there amidst the Carrollians and the haggle of assorted Alices we sat and listened to Michael Sheen reading the...
- 2/25/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This evening Filmshaft was at a historical event. Truly. Disney put on a very special gathering at the British Library, which was basically a discussion, readings from the book, a screening and Q&A on the new movie and the historical awesomeness of Alice in Wonderland. The evening was hosted by Tim Burton’s official biographer and writer dude, Mark Salisbury.
Alice in Wonderland is a seminal piece of literature that somehow is often thought of as a primarily children’s story, when in fact, it’s something much more darker and sinister. Is this reflected in Tim Burton’s new adaptation? You’ll have to wait and see the film, or read my review when I post it at the stroke of midnight GMT tomorrow. As Christopher Lee commented on the books effect upon him:
“The characters make perfect sense, but are not entirely sensible.”
Welsh actor and part-time Tony Blair impersonator,...
Alice in Wonderland is a seminal piece of literature that somehow is often thought of as a primarily children’s story, when in fact, it’s something much more darker and sinister. Is this reflected in Tim Burton’s new adaptation? You’ll have to wait and see the film, or read my review when I post it at the stroke of midnight GMT tomorrow. As Christopher Lee commented on the books effect upon him:
“The characters make perfect sense, but are not entirely sensible.”
Welsh actor and part-time Tony Blair impersonator,...
- 2/24/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
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