Remember the days when tea parties made sense?
Today we learned John Cusack is guest blogging on BoingBoing. Cusack is celebrating the love of one Jan Svankmajer. Svankmajer, we also learned, is a surrealist Czech filmmaker. Of course, this fellow made a version of Alice in Wonderland. What else would a surrealist Czech filmmaker do?
Because we’re terribly behind on… well, life… we still have a tab open on an ONTD article sharing a 1903 production Alice in Wonderland film. This being Bicycle Day and Alice being full of trippy moments, throwing the two films together seems like a good idea.
Tumble down the rabbit hole to experience them both.
Alice in Wonderland (1903)
This Alice is more a historical curiosity than anything else. In today’s world this production would be an extravagant LARPing event. A thing that could be filmed over the weekend in the park of Any Town, USA (or Any City, The World if LARPing is a big deal across the seas). Think of it as a window into what was entertaining 100 years ago.
Jan Å vankmajer: Alice in Wonderland (1988)
Now here is some delightful weirdness. Tim Burton, maybe you should refresh your Well of Strange Happenings. Dip your beak into Å vankmajer’s Wonderland and re-learn how it’s done. John Cusack describes Å vankmajer’s scene far better than we dare at the moment.
Right now we take refuge in the thought that films don’t have to be in 3D to amaze and twist your mind. These days, that’s very easy to forget.
via ONTD, Forbidden Planet, Boing Boing
