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For more than 150 years, Lewis Carroll's Alice stories have captured the imaginations of readers, artists, filmmakers and designers. Holly Williams finds out why.
Dec 12, 2018 · This is solidified by the UK rating of Parental Guidance (‘should not unsettle a child aged around eight or older’), a marked difference to the 1950s cartoon version which is a U (‘should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over’).
Mar 20, 2020 · For the remake of Alice in Wonderland, Disney got notorious director Tim Burton to direct what would become a unique fairytale with a brave message. For his take on the character, we meet Alice, played by Mia Wasikowska, at the age of 19, and she is proposed to by Hamish, her boyfriend.
In telling the story behind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the starting point at least is not in doubt: that “golden afternoon” of July 4 1862, when on a boat trip from Oxford up the river...
- Alice in Wonderland (1903) Watch Alice in Wonderland on BFI Player. Taking its visual cues from Sir John Tenniel’s drawings, this was the longest and most ambitious picture yet produced in Britain.
- Alice in Wonderland (1933) Although Ruth Gilbert became the first screen Alice to talk in Bud Pollard’s 1931 adaptation, she was quickly forgotten when Paramount assembled an all-star cast for a Norman Z. McLeod interpretation that boasted script contributions by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and William Cameron Menzies.
- Alice in Wonderland (1951) Having acquired the rights to the Tenniel drawings in the 1930s, Walt Disney hoped to star Mary Pickford in the first animated retelling of Alice’s adventures (in Wonderland rather than Cartoonland).
- Alice in Wonderland (1966) Despising the Disney take, Jonathan Miller set out to de-anthropomorphise the story by returning to Dodgson’s mathematical logic and Victorian values.
In Alice, Darling, Anna Kendrick plays a 30-year-old successful woman trapped in a coercive relationship with Simon, played by British actor Charlie Carrick.
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Mar 9, 2018 · From the first screen adaptation of Alice in Wonderland to the omnipotent animated versions, there's arguably no story more appropriate to trace the evolution of film craft. We went beyond the well-known Alices to find the earliest, strangest and most iconic versions of her story.
