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Hier die erste Filmversion von Alice im Wunderland, pünktlich zur anstehenden Neuverfilmung von Tim Burton. Mehr Infos zum Film gibt’s auf Screenonline.
The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet.
With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film’s original colours for the first time in over 100 years.
Music: ‘Jill in the Box’, composed and performed by Wendy Hiscocks.


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The imaginative films of Czech animator/director Karel Zeman were poorly served in the West, usually presented if at all in heavily Americanized recuts. This brilliantly designed 1957 gem wasn’t released in the US until four years later and in the wrong screen ratio (the trailer obviously cuts off the top and bottom of the 1:33 frame).
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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (力王 Lik Wong [Strength King]) is a 1991 Hong Kong film directed by Lam Ngai Kai, based on the Japanese comic book Riki-Oh. It stars Terry Fan Siu Wong as Ricky Ho Lik Wong (Lik Wong is the character’s given name, but the subtitles use the anglicized “Ricky”) and Yukari Oshima as Yomi. The English title given on screen is simply Story of Ricky but later releases were sold under the title Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. It had a limited theatrical release in the US around 1993. It is well-known for its extreme, brutal, and highly unrealistic violence. One scene, showing a character crushing another character’s skull with his bare hands, later became a regular fixture on The Daily Show during Craig Kilborn’s time as the host.
Largely a silent movie, running at 25 minutes, made and marketed for the even by late-60’s measly sum of $20.000 Amblin’ is the first film the then 22-year-old Spielberg shot on 35mm. And it is a fantastic look at the pure unbridled potential that was and is Steven Spielberg.





































