Alice in Wonderland

Blending absurdity and an off-putting childlike glee, in 1976 Bud Townsend adapted a Disney-esque “soft” hardcore porno musical of Alice in Wonderland. Produced by porn maverick Bill Osco of Flesh Gordon fame (...

‘Who am I, then? Tell me that first …’ Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland stories are about many things, but their theme of strange identity resonates today. It makes sense that an artist interest...

This is how the story goes: iconic shock-goth-glam-rock darling Marilyn Manson once tried to make a film about Lewis Carroll and Alice’s Wonderland tales, but so outraged were the public by the trailer alone th...

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871), young Alice goes on a wide-eyed odyssey through the psychic flotsam and jetsam of nineteenth-century ...

Lewis Carroll’s Alice revolts against the volatile world of Wonderland by literally bringing the whole house of cards down. Not only does she go on a dangerous journey, she also returns to tell the tale. If Ali...

The reason why a socially awkward, conservative Anglican Deacon and Oxford mathematician became a leading pop cultural icon in the swinging sixties is one of the most curious stories surrounding Alice in Wonder...

In Francesco Barilli’s Il profumo della signora in nero (The Perfume of the Lady in Black, 1974), the lonely, central figure of Silvia is played by American actress Mimsy Farmer. Not only does the character of ...

This is an abridged version of a longer article. Alice (1987 Switzerland/Czechoslovakia 86 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Condor Features/Film Four International/Hessischer Rundfunk Prod: Peter-Christian F...

‘Will I ever get into the beautiful garden?’ Charlotte Henry’s Alice cries in frustration after she takes a drink from a bottle (‘Not poison’) that she hopes will let her fit through a very small door. Her deci...

In November 1966, Mary Jean St Clair, the granddaughter of Alice Liddell, expressed anxiety about Jonathan Miller’s upcoming Alice in Wonderland adaptation for the BBC’s Christmas schedule. The descendant of th...

Of all the films to have faced censorship battles in the English-speaking world, there are few as apparently innocuous as Alice au Pays des Merveilles (Alice in Wonderland, Lou Bunin, Dallas Bower and Marc Maur...

Alice arrives in the land of sound cinema with a certain sangfroid: ‘I wonder if I have fallen right through the Earth?’ asks 19-year-old Ruth Gilbert, underneath a barely disguised New York accent. ‘And this i...

To consider the relationship between film and fashion is to imagine a parade of glamorous, golden-age leading ladies – Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly – all of whom are frequently given the titl...

The first line of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland sets out exactly what kind of book it will be. Young Alice, disgusted by her older sister’s reading matter, considers the pointlessness of a bo...

From the very outset, the Alice tales seemed destined for a life beyond the page. Indeed, the stories themselves speak with passion and eloquence about expanding our familiar imaginative frames of reference. Al...