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Animating Alice! A Film Festival - Newcastle, May 2005 |
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The First Carroll Related Film Festival
Although not the first ever festival of films inspired by Carroll's works, this was the most siginificant event of its type to date. It was organised by the Lewis Carroll Film Society, in association with the Side Cinema (Newcastle) and a little support from The Lewis Carroll Society. We have kept this page on our site as a reminder of the wealth of film adaptations available and in the hope that it will encourage visitors to attend any future events of this nature that are organised.
As you will see from the programme below, the organisers assembled a wide ranging and fascinating collection of films - and the event was very well received by the audience. In addition to the films listed, there were supplementary short films and videos being shown.
Follow the (imdb) links for further information about these films. Saturday 28 May 2005 Sincerely Yours (2004, Canada, not rated, 24 mins) 12.00 noon Showing At the Tyneside Cinema The first European showing of Sincerely Yours, a fascinating new film depicting one year in the life of Lewis Carroll by Andy Malcolm (imdb) and George Pastic. Shown with The Original Alice, a short documentary telling the story of how Lewis Carroll's Alice came to be written.
Alice in Wonderland (1951, USA, Cert. U, 75 mins) (imdb) 2.30 pm The ever popular Disney adaptation.
Alice (1988, Czecholslovakia, Cert. PG, 86 mins) (imdb) and 5.00 pm Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer’s versions of ‘Alice’ and ‘Jabberwocky’: both distinctive and sometimes disturbing visions, evoking the absurd spirit of Carroll’s work and hovering between a repugnant dream and the innocence of the nursery. Sunday 29 May 2005 Animating Nonsense! 11.00 am Michael Sporn's colourful hand-drawn animations bring Carroll’s nonsense poems to life in these enchanting works of art. (27 mins)
Alice in Wonderland (1999, UK/USA/Germany, 129 mins, Cert. U) (imdb) 2.00 pm Imaginative sets and a whirlwind of special effects – this is the first adaptation to exploit the myriad tricks available in the digital era.
The Silent Era 4.30 pm The first (Cecil Hepworth) and third (W.W. Young) film adaptations of Alice in Wonderland, with early special effects and ingenious costumes.
Dreamchild (UK, 1985, 94 mins, Cert. PG) (imdb) 7.30 pm Written by Denis Potter and (somewhat loosely) based on the true story of the grown-up and elderly ‘real’ Alice Liddell being invited to the USA to celebrate Carroll’s centenary. The film inter-cuts memories of her childhood relationship with Charles Dodgson with some rather nightmarish visions of the Wonderland story Monday 30 May 2005 Alice Through the Looking Glass (1988, UK, 83 mins, Cert. PG) 10.30 am Kate Beckinsale plays a grown-up Alice, who is transported through the looking glass while reading the story to her daughter.
Alice in Wonderland cartoon double-bill 1.30 pm Two vintage American cartoon adaptations of Alice in Wonderland starring Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, and Betty Boop.
Jabberwocky (UK, 105 mins, Cert. PG) (imdb) 3.30 pm Featuring the Monty Python cast. Dennis Cooper (Michael Palin), an apprentice during the dark ages, somehow must slay the dragon Jabberwock who stalks the land of Bruno the Questionable.
Alice in Wonderland (1966, UK, 72 mins, Cert. PG) (imdb) 7.30 pm Jonathan Miller's haunting b&w production offering a thought-provoking viewpoint of a child wandering through an alien landscape of Victorian adult attitudes and prejudices. Another Look in the Glass ... Saturday 4 June 2005 Disney's Alice in Wonderland (U) 10.30 am
Animating Nonsense! 1.30 pm
Jan Svankmajer’s Alice (imdb) and Jabberwocky (15) (imdb) 3.30 pm
Dreamchild (PG) (imdb) 5.30 pm
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