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Alice. Alice's adventures in Wonderland was published in 1865, and revolutionized children's writing. This program explores the tragic and impossible love affair that underlay the creation of this work of comic and verbal genius. (ca. 80 min.) (2010).
The Life of Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll was a truly gifted man, an accomplished writer and photographer, as well as a mathematician, logician and an Anglican deacon. (ca. 75 min.) (2009)
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Alice: A little girl follows an elusive White Rabbit and so begins this dream expedition into the landscape of childhood, combining techniques of animation, puppet theatre and live action in Švankmajer's surreal version of Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
Darkness light darkness: A man literally constructs himself within the confines of a very small room--a potent allegory of Švankmajer's life in Eastern Europe.
8) Dreamchild
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The magnificent Ian Holm (The Homecoming, Alien) is renowned children's author Lewis Carroll in this poignant fantasy -a drama set in 1930s New York and populated by the fabulous special -effects creatures of Muppet master Jim Henson. To help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's birth, the real-life Alice in Wonderland 80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is baffled by her enormous public popularity. As she comes to terms with America's 'Alice...
10) DreamChild
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A fantasy based on the true life visit of 80 year-old Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the inspiration for "Alice in Wonderland," to New York to celebrate the centennial of Lewis Carroll's birth. As Alice observes the developing romance between her traveling companion, Lucy, and a New York reporter, she reflects on her friendship with Lewis Carroll and finds herself haunted by the characters he created that amused her when she was a child.
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This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...
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