The last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot

[sovay]

Discovery that will improve some day of mine as soon as I can afford it: Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland (1966) is finally out on DVD in a region I can watch. One of the extras is Dennis Potter's Wednesday Play Alice (1965), essentially his first version of Dreamchild (1985). My thanks go out to Tim Burton for providing the timely excuse: I had just been planning to pine for the BFI's Alice series. Now if only someone would get around to releasing a real DVD of Dreamchild.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I've been wanting the Jonathan Miller Alice since 1966, when I saw a story on it in a magazine.

I really want Dreamchild as well, but one reviewer says the DVD-R won't play in the disk drives of PCs, which is all I have. Ack!

Nine

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I didn't know the 1933 film existed. Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle, Gary Cooper as the White Knight- how very extraordinary!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's interesting and curious that Alice in Wonderland has such a history in film. Why is it? Is it just that the dreamlike scenarios that Lewis Carroll created lend themselves to film, or is there something more to it than that, I wonder.

From the way my kids described the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland (which they didn't like very much), I think I'd hate it. The BFI's Alice--at least the clips available on YouTube, is very cool.

[deliasherman.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see the Jonathan Miller Alice, and am waiting for a watchable Dreamchild DVD myself. As long as you're collecting Alices, here is a link to a 1915 version that has some truly surreal moments in it: http://www.archive.org/details/AliceinWonderland1915

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I have Dreamchild saved on my DVR because I thought it would be an excellent thing to watch the next time you visited.

Excellent.

And I am still writing the thing, btw, but new parts are all in my head because the baby has a cold.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I'd not known of that particular film version. I'm glad it's available, and I hope you're able to get yourself a copy soon.