The A.V. Club - SyFy's Alice

Film: Newswire:Images from Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland revealed

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:33:00 -0500

USA Today has the exclusive on images from Tim Burton's upcoming Alice In Wonderland, which is due in March of next year. (And yes, it'll be in 3-D. Did you really have to ask?) Burton regulars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter will be involved with the movie, which merges animation, CG, and live-action. You can see some of the images here.

Film: The New Cult Canon:Spirited Away

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

“Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can’t remember.” —Zeniba, Spirited Away It’s no accident that I chose to cover Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away the week after Jan Svankmajer’s terrifying surrealist take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, because they strike me as reverse images of each other. Both are rooted in Carroll’s abstract dream logic—one directly, the other in form—and both follow a willful young girl on a wayward journey that reveals her courage, resourcefulness, and boundless curiosity. At the end of the journey, there’s ...

Film: The New Cult Canon:Alice

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

“Alice thought to herself, ‘Now you will see a film made for children. Perhaps. But I nearly forgot: You must close your eyes. Otherwise, you won’t see anything.’” —Jan Svankmajer’s Alice “‘Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!’ said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, ‘It was a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it’s getting late.’ So Alice got ...

SyFy's Alice: Inventory:Inventory: 14 neglected TV shows that deserve a DVD release

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:31:00 -0600

1. The Dana Carvey Show The Dana Carvey Show's star is as painfully '90s as a Primus T-shirt, but the cast reads like a Who's Who of '00s comedy: Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert—whose combined star power alone merits a DVD—received almost equal screen time, and writers included Robert Smigel, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Dino Stamatopolous, and Charlie Kaufman. This dream team produced some of the most out-there sketches ever aired on network TV. Naturally, the show was cancelled after six episodes. Its demise was imminent from the first sketch; absurdist conceptual gags, like Carell ...

DVD: Review:Alice In Wonderland

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0600

Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto grew up loving Disney cartoons to such an extent that even his 1977 feature-length parody of Fantasia, Allegro Non Troppo, is more affectionate than savage. Still, in the documentary accompanying Allegro Non Troppo on the DVD release, Bozzetto sounds envious when he says that the film didn't do as well as it should have, because audiences in his homeland don't support animated films without the Disney logo. He shouldn't complain, because underdog status suits him. Bozzetto's economy-sized Fantasia strings together colorful studies of loneliness, loss, and social absurdity with a coarse, doodling ...