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  • Actors: Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller, Wilfrid Brambell, Alan Bennett
  • Directors: Jonathan Miller
  • Writers: Jonathan Miller, Lewis Carroll
  • Producers: Jonathan Miller
  • Format: Black & White, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Bfi Video
  • DVD Release Date: 28 April 2003
  • Run Time: 72 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008WQ58
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 23,154 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features
4:3
English
Region 2
Directors Commentary
Stills Gallery
Directors Biography
Original Alice In Wonderland From 1903


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Based on the classic book by Lewis Carroll, this version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND was originally produced for BBC1 in 1966 by Jonathan Miller, and is one of the more original and stylish adaptations to date. Drawing inspiration from Victorian photography and pre-Raphaelite paintings, Miller's vision was a picture of upper-middle-class society as it may have appeared through the eyes of Alice, a small girl with a wild imagination. A stellar cast includes Peter Cook, Peter Sellers, Alan Bennett, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Michael Redgrave, Wilfrid Brambell, John Bird and Leo McKern, and the music score is by Ravi Shankar.

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars All in the golden afternoon..., 16 Mar 2004
By Dennis E. Sisterson (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This remarkable film almost defies description; it's so completely unlike any other film or any other adaptation of Carroll's book. Watching it is like gazing through a crystal ball at someone's confused, faded, half-dreamed memories of childhood in another life and another age, when summers were long and lazy and hot and the world was severe and confusing. Little of Carroll's text is preserved intact; his ingenious wordplay is mainly given second place to atmosphere, so for all its wonderful qualities this can't really be considered the definitive adaptation - perhaps such a thing is impossible - but it does capture aspects of the original that no other version comes close to. Director Jonathan Miller gives a fascinating, entertaining commentary and you can't help but wonder what we would have had if the BBC hadn't insisted on trimming thirty minutes out of it before transmission... though we shouldn't complain too much about that; today, such a fascinating and individual piece of work would probably never get commissioned in the first place, by the BBC or anyone else.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Alice, 8 Mar 2004
For Alice aficionados Miller’s 1966 film really is the best version there is. It blurs the boundaries of reality (Lewis Carroll’s world of Oxford University dons) and fantasy in a way that no other version could hope to match. Although this film is not really considered a ‘children’s’ film I would definitely recommend that children watch this version rather than the artificially sweetened Disney version. Don't be fooled by technicolor singalongs, what children and adults alike really want is originality, magic, and absurdity. Millers vision has it all. It's altogether darker, funnier, and truer to the original book.

This is the sort of classic that rarely appears on DVD/home video – get it while you can!

If you’re interested in an alternative and challenging vision of Carroll’s classic, see also Jan Svankmajer’s animated ‘Alice’, for superb surreality and a more gothic flavour.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 40 years on, still modern, 12 Jul 2005
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The comment I want to make is on just how modern this version of Alice in Wonderland appears some 40 years later. Perhaps it's the timeless effect of the black and white, but it's quite easy to imagine this being made today, using guest stars like Vic Reeves and David Walliams in place of stars Peter Cooke and Leo McKern.
The drug fuelled aspect is alluded to often - Alice looks 'out of it' more than once, clearly by design, and the sense of being inside an LSD trip is conveyed subtly but clearly. Again, this allows the play to retain a modernity - if Miller (or Carroll) had shown any actual use of drugs, this work would have been censored and probably banned - but by using Carroll's device of bottles and cakes marked 'eat me' and 'drink me' he pretty much gets away with making you feel like you just spent an endless summer day tripped out at woodstock without risking any censorship.
Quite an experience.

Very connected to the psychedelic movement that was as it's height then too - I half expected John Lennon to appear, but sadly he didn't. Beatles fans will recognise the warped victoriana throughout the play.

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