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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780027114
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
ISBN: 0780027116
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Running Time: 72 minutes
Sales Rank: 37555
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: 1966
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Editorial Review:
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Fans of Lewis Carroll's classic novel for children will be fascinated by this startling 1966 interpretation by Jonathan Miller, a noted British theater director. Influenced by surrealism and Victorian architecture, Miller's black-and-white version of Wonderland is a dour and creepy place, not the frenetic and charming bustle usually depicted. A brunette Alice (Anne-Marie Mallik) wanders like a sleepwalker, rarely looking anyone in the eye, and has fractured conversations with the likes of the Mad Hatter (Peter Cook, Bedazzled), the Caterpillar (Sir Michael Redgrave, The Lady Vanishes), the Duchess (Leo McKern, Rumpole of the Bailey), and the Mock Turtle (Sir John Gielgud, Brideshead Revisited, Arthur). The result is probably an accurate picture of the adult world seen through a child's eyes--an unsettling and intriguing vision. Also featuring Peter Sellers as the King of Hearts and music by Ravi Shankar. --Bret Fetzer
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Obviously it's not Disney's adventures of Alice in wonderland... but I wasn't looking for it. It follows the original written story pretty well, however being that there aren't any costumes and the acting is very strangely dislocated from the characters it just feels creepy in an almost look away sort of feel.
It's not that the acting is bad, but no one looks at anything in particular. They look off to the side as they speak to each other (with nearly no emotion mind you) and it is just ... Read More
Rating:  -
... I found this version of Alice almost unwatchable. Previous reviews well capture this version's character, including its truly fatal flaws. Please read them. But I think they are by-and-large far too charitable. I love Carroll's works, so do not take this negative review as a knock on the Alice books; it is purely about this dismal and moribund adaptation.
Note, I write "adaptation." This is not a faithful version of Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," nor was meant to be. Fair ... Read More
Rating:  -
This is an experimental TV-movie from the BBC's "Wednesday Play" anthology. That series was always willing to risk trying something different, and this ambitious, low-budget "Alice" is certainly different. I wouldn't say I "enjoy" this film exactly, but...
I appreciate it as an experiment in what television could do. I admire the cast of iconic Britons who wouldn't normally coincide in the same project: Peter Sellers, John Gielgud, Leo McKern (in drag as the Duchess), Michael Redgrave, Peter ... Read More
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Wolfgang Petersen's superb personal take on Homeric myth and legend is entitled Troy, which makes it perfectly plain that he is not setting out to reproduce the Iliad. Miller's Alice in Wonderland could, more honestly, have similarly been given a different title, since those expecting to see Carroll's masterpiece will inevitably be baffled. This is not the original work of genius, but a critical commentary: it is about the book, but not the book itself. As such, it is still pretty interesting, and provides ... Read More
Rating:  -
This is the most complex movie rendering of Carroll's classic, and one of the stranger ones. It's a 1966 BBC production in black and white, and done on a shoestring budget. As a result, there's just about nothing in the way of special effects - and certainly no animal-shaped costumes for the dormouse, white rabbit, and all the others. Instead, the characters simply dress in a deliberately over-done Victorian style, probably put together by raiding the stock BBC costume closet.
But what characters! ... Read More
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