XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

nowego A fascinatingly, surreal and psychedelic version of the Alice in Wonderland story. Shot in a Gothic black and white style, the cinematography is very well done and still holds up 50 years later. The cast is very very good, particularly Anne-Marie Malik in her one and only role of Alice. She's petulant and outspoken, but also very reserved and examining. She's adorable, and her delivery of lines add to the dreamlike quality of the movie. She makes the whole movie worth watching.Filmed as a TV play it's surprisingly well made, thank the BBC for that, they do some exceptional work. Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland is worth viewing if you can find it.

Spondonman First time I saw this was on December 28th 1966 which was its first broadcast on BBC1, the next time was exactly 42 years later on a pristine BFI DVD. I was worried my childhood memories might be shattered by discovering it was simply a trippy '60's cop-out, but I needn't have been. Sure, it's a product of its time same as everything is, but it was and remains a unique filming of the classic tale by Lewis Carroll and imho the best version made so far.Young Alice is transported by dream one sunny summer day to Wonderland where many adventures befall her. Whether Carroll was attracted or not to little girls ("I like all children, except boys") and whether that explains why his diaries had some ripped out pages at key moments is something we'll never know for sure now - I think he was merely a repressed idealist – but he created a timeless story for children of all ages. His 90 page painstakingly hand written original edition which he gave to Alice in 1864 as "a Christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer day" is currently online from the British Museum and well worth a read.Jonathan Miller's erudite sharp focus black and white production assumed that it was really meant for satirical adults, however it still managed to impress this particular 7 year old and especially his 5 year old wife to be and their counterparts 42 years later. Favourite bits: Michael Redgrave as the Caterpillar and John Geilgud as the Mock Turtle; Alice's walk with Duchess Leo McKern down the path through the woods followed by the camera crew weaving in and out of the trees and forward and backward; almost every scene has something of note though. Maybe I could have done with a bit more of Ravi Shankar's exceptional tunes but no worries. It's a pity John Bird's and Peter Sellers' post Goon Show improvisations were left in - it's no good Miller saying it was in the spirit of Carroll when their obvious inspiration was Spike Milligan, just one eg from 1954's Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler Of Bexhill On Sea: "Suddenly! Nothing happened! But it happened suddenly mark you!" And I still wonder how much the production influenced the Beatles with their image for 1967? Apparently the finished film was considered too long by the BBC and 30 minutes were chopped off. Off with their heads - all those potential Pinteresque moments lost!This is something to treasure: an arty BBC film that was genuinely arty, entertaining and still eminently watchable generations later. It almost managed to capture the illusive illusionary qualities of dreams and those seemingly beautifully languid sunny days of the '60's – both 19th and 20th century.

P. H. I'm just writing to disagree with previous comment which complained about Alice's dialogue /expressions not matching upto accepted conversational practices. I think it's obvious that the whole mesmeric quality of this version was intended to portray how things disjointedly happen when you are actually dreaming. Sometimes, you are just observing the bizarre things going on around you (when dreaming)and your thoughts may contact other figures who are there even if your mouth isn't actually doing anything.Basically, when dreaming anything can happen, so to knock this adaptation because it wasn't made like any other prog' following conventional methods is pretty crass.If you want a pretty accurate portrayal of what a dream 'could' look like on the screen then this is a very good attempt. Also, to get all these seasoned players together in one film is a fine achievement-Peter Cook steels the show for me!

Tetra123 Those in search of the usual quirky world of Wonderland--that of singing turtles and fluffy pinafores--will leave this film feeling intensely disappointed. Miller's Wonderland is a recipe of adult Victoriana and social themes, charming like an Edward Gory picture book; in other words, in the most Gothic sense. Yet, with all it's moody obscurity, it reveals itself to be unique in its presentation of adult themes within Carroll's story. Like other Victorian and Edwardian pet works of the time--Barrie's "Peter Pan" and Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Grey"--"Alice in Wonderland" revolved around themes of childhood, "growing up" and human mortality. Regarding those matters, I felt Miller truly captured the wistful, romantic mood that dominated the art of Carroll's time.However, Miller's version of "Alice in Wonderland" is not entirely somber; as Alice lounges lazily in a field, luxuriating in a hazy midsummer day--the buzzing of insects heard distinctly around her, you get a strong sense of the Trancendentalism described in works on the natural world, by writers like Thoreau and Emerson. In a story that Miller could've easily lead down the path of anticipated whimsy (one that's surely had its share of travelers, all attempting to capture the eccentric magic of Wonderland,) viewers instead find a rare time capsule of sentiment and social attitudes. Not simply a period costume drama riding on beautiful gowns and luscious filming locations, "Alice..." encapsulates the general feeling of an era.