The Date: April 2
The Movie: Alice (1988)
What Is It?: No
filmmaker has ever been able to convey the baffling, brilliant wordplay that is
the engine within Lewis Carroll’s surreal fantasy adequately. Jan Švankmajer
basically discards language all together to distill Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland down to a series of profoundly
creepy, dirty-looking sequences staged with the master’s menagerie of grotesque
puppets. Be sure to gather your kids to watch this one! Especially if you hate
your kids.
Why Today?: Today
is International Children’s Book Day.
