Down the Rabbit Hole: Films inspired by Carroll's Alice books.
A "canon" of films inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice novels. Includes films cited as being Carroll-esque by reviewers and scholars, as well as films from the festivals "Alice and other Lost Girls in Fantastic Worlds" (LACMA, 2011) "Alice: A Mental Journey" (Kyoto Minami-Kaikan, 2015) "Alice is Everywhere" (ACMI, 2018) and "Alice film programme: Through the Looking-Glass" (EyeFilmMuseum, 2019)
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- DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018. Played EyeFilmMuseum's "Alice film programme: Through the Looking-Glass" in 2019.
Based on the L Frank Baum novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". - DirectorMaya DerenStarsJohn CageMaya DerenAlexander HammidSilently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018.
- DirectorSidney PetersonStarsMarie HirshA number of scenes are cut and assembled together to explore the meaning and interpretation of art.Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018.
- DirectorRay AshleyMorris EngelRuth OrkinStarsRichard BrewsterWinifred CushingJay WilliamsA young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsCatherine DemongeotPhilippe NoiretHubert DeschampsWith her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike under her uncle's not-so-watchful eye. But can a little girl cause so much chaos in the city centre?Played Kyoto Minami-Kaikan's "Alice: A Mental Journey" film festival in 2015
Based on the Raymond Queneau novel of the same name. - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsGiulietta MasinaSandra MiloMario PisuVisions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband.Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018.
- DirectorVera ChytilováStarsIvana KarbanováJitka CerhováMarie CeskováAfter realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?Played LA LACMA's "Alice and Other Lost Girls in Fantastic Worlds" film festival in 2011.
- DirectorWilliam KleinStarsDorothy McGowanJean RochefortSami FreyA model tells a television crew about her dreams of a life with Prince Charming while she is fending off the lecherous advances of a horde of men.
- DirectorJud YalkutStarsYayoi KusamaJoe JonesDon SnyderThe artist uses polka dots to cover and conceal people, animals, the environment, and everything around. It is a metaphor of giving up identity, abolishing uniqueness, and becoming one with the universe-or "self-obliteration."Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018.
- DirectorJaromil JiresStarsJaroslava SchallerováHelena AnýzováPetr KoprivaSurreal tale in which love, fear, sex, and religion merge into one fantastic world. Based on a classical Czech novel of the same title.Played LA LACMA's "Alice and Other Lost Girls in Fantastic Worlds" film festival in 2011. Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018.
Based on the Vitezslav Nezval novel of the same name. - DirectorVera ChytilováStarsJitka NovákováKarel NovakJan SchmidAn experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.Played LA LACMA's "Alice and Other Lost Girls in Fantastic Worlds" film festival in 2011.
- DirectorPavel JurácekStarsLubomír KostelkaKlára JernekováMilena ZahrynowskaLemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerLewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsMarcello MastroianniSydne RomeHugh GriffithDuring her Italian vacation, a young and beautiful American tourist finds herself as a guest in a coastal villa inhabited by some odd people.Content warning: Contains sexual behaviour considered outdated.
Played EyeFilmMuseum's "Alice film programme: Through the Looking-Glass" in 2019. - DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJuliet BertoDominique LabourierBulle OgierA mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsYella RottländerRüdiger VoglerLisa KreuzerA German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsCathryn HarrisonTherese GiehseAlexandra StewartTo escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsSylvia KristelCharles VanelFernand LedouxAlice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek help. She goes to a creepy manor and is welcomed by the owner, Henri Vergennes, and his butler, Colas. Alice is invited to spend the night in the house. The next morning, Alice can't find the two men from he previous night but finds her car surprisingly fixed. She tries to leave but cannot find the gate. She stops the car and walks around the wall trying to find an exit but becomes increasingly worried with what she finds.Has an Essay in the 2018 ACMI Exhibition book "Wonderland: Alice on Screen" written by Darragh O’Donoghue
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsMonika Belo-CabanováOlga VronskáAleksandr LetkoA little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018
- DirectorWalter MurchStarsFairuza BalkNicol WilliamsonJean MarshDorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.Based on L Frank Baum's books "Land of Oz" and "Ozma of Oz".
- DirectorSusan SeidelmanStarsRosanna ArquetteMadonnaAidan QuinnA bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.Played ACMI Melbourne's "Alice is Everywhere" film Festival in 2018.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsGriffin DunneRosanna ArquetteVerna BloomAn ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.
- DirectorJim HensonStarsDavid BowieJennifer ConnellyToby FroudSixteen-year-old Sarah must solve a labyrinth to rescue her baby brother when he is taken by the Goblin King.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJoëlle MiquelJessica FordeMr. HousseauTwo unlike girls are going to learn each other's world - lovely countryside and bustling Paris.Thematically similar to "Celine and Julie Go Boating" (1974) and has a 2 protagonist duality similar to "Daisies" (1966)
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNicolas CageLaura DernWillem DafoeYoung lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.Content warning: Contains strong, extreme violence and sexual content.
Played EyeFilmMuseum's "Alice film programme: Through the Looking-Glass" in 2019.
Based on the novel of the same name by Barry Gilford.