Alicja (aka Alice), starring Sophie Barjac, was also released in 1982. It’s an unusual modern interpretation in which Alice falls in love with a jogger called Rabbit who is being plotted against by another character named Queenie… Other Wonderland characters involved in the tale include the Cheshire Cat, Caterpillar, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Griffin, Mock Turtle, and the Duchess.
Annie Enneking also took the role of Alice in a 1982 television production of Alice in Wonderland, which was adapted from a stage play performed by Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis. This production borrows elements from both Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. The sets and costumes are colorful and well designed, but observers have complained that “it’s slightly spoiled by the actors bellowing their lines as if they were performing for a live audience several hundred feet away rather than the whisper-sensitive microphone“.
Alice In Wonderland (1982)
Fushigi no Kuni no Alice, an anime adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, aired on the Japanese network NHK from March 26, 1983 to October 10, 1984. The series was a Japanese-German coproduction between Nippon Animation and Apollo Films. Of the 52 episodes produced, only 26 ever aired in the United States.
Also released in 1985 was the Gavin Millar film, Dreamchild, in which a reporter attempts to uncover the ‘true story’ of the Alice tales from an 80 year-old woman who may or may not be Alice Liddell. Featuring grotesque, aged versions of the Wonderland characters (designed by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop), the film explores the relationships adults have with the fictional characters from their childhoods. It stars Ian Holm as Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll).
In 1988, Jan Švankmajer created Neco z Alenky, a bizzare surrealist fantasy that merged live action with stop motion animation. Kristýna Kohoutová plays the role of Alice and the English dubbed version features the voice of Camilla Power. It was released on DVD in English as “Alice” by First Run Features.
Surrealist Salvador Dali was certainly one of the most influential & well known painters of the 20th century, but it’s not so widely known that he was also a gifted filmmaker, photographer, writer and illustrator. Eccentric by nature, it is no surprise that Dali was drawn to creating works to illustrate stories that touched upon his own surrealistic sensibilities, such tales as Dante‘s Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Macbeth, and of course Lewis Carroll‘s Alice In Wonderland.
Dali created a series of 13 lithographs depicting Alice‘s adventures (published in 1969 by Press-Random House), each vibrant and bizarre with a dreamy, almost child-like splatter-art feel to them, a bit like Ralph Steadman without the psychotic edginess (I love Ralph’s work). Alice, depicted as a girl jumping rope, is shown in each colorful image of the series as she travels through a dreamlike world of nonsense populated by an unusual cast of unlikely characters.
Down The Rabbit Hole by Salvador Dali
Alice by Salvador Dali
The Pool of Tears by Salvador Dali
A Caucus Race and A Long Tale by Salvador Dali
The Rabbit Sends In A Little Bill by Salvador Dali
Advice From A Caterpillar by Salvador Dali
Pig and Pepper by Salvador Dali
A Mad Tea Party by Salvador Dali
The Queen's Croquet Ground by Salvador Dali
The Mock Turtle's Story by Salvador Dali
The Mock Turtle's Story by Salvador Dali
Who Stole The Tarts? by Salvador Dali
Alice's Evidence by Salvador Dali
Dali also later sculpted a 15.7″ tall x 35.4″ wide bronze statuette of Alice jumping rope beside one of the artist’s signature stylized crutches.
Alice In Wonderland bronze statue by Salvador Dali
