Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
This December, Syfy is set to air their original new movie Alice . The two-night TV event is inspired by Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass . Check out the synopsis and a couple of videos for the film which looks to be a reimagining of the classic tales with a scifi twist.
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Museum 'of story and storytelling' planned for Oxford | Books | guardian.co.uk From Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, CS Lewis's Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Oxford has played host to some of the UK's most enduring literary creations. Now a �2.5m donation from an anonymous private benefactor means the first steps have been...
Parabasis (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Oxford's proposed Museum of Storytelling! Hells to the yeah!: From Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, CS Lewis's Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Oxford has played host to some of the UK's most...
Filmshaft.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Following the three new posters we’ve had recently (here and ...
Hell on Frisco Bay (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The San Francisco Film Society has just put on its 4th Annual S.F. International Animation Festival as part of its fall season of mini-festivals of various themes. There was French Cinema Now and Taiwan Film Days before it, and now it's in the midst of its long-standing New Italian Cinema series, which closes Sunday with Marco Bellocchio's Vincere . Coming up is the first winter presentation of KinoTek...
Smartcine.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Here is the third new image in a series of three from Disney’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND Capturing the wonder of Lewis Carroll’s beloved “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass” (1871) with stunning, avant-garde visuals and the most charismatic characters in literary history, ALICE IN WONDERLAND comes to the big screen in Disney Digital...
Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Why the Afghan Surge Will Fail By Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy in Focus November 13, 2009 http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6571 Before the Obama administration buys into General Stanley McChrystal's escalation strategy, it might spend some time examining the August 12 battle of Dananeh, a scruffy little town of 2,000 perched at the entrance to the Naw Zad Valley in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province....
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Mad Hatter and the Chocolate Factory
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Last week, Disney kicked off a small viral with The Mad Hatter on Facebook who was leading us to some "treasure." As we quickly found out, his treasure was a series of three posters for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland that when put together would give us a good look at all the characters from the movie. The complete reveal took a lot longer than Disney expected, and although they didn't...
/Film (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
After premiering the first and second banners last week, Walt Disney Pictures has now released the third and final of three new theatrical banners for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Want to see more? Check out a high resolution digital copy of all three banners after the jump. Banner #3: Banner #2: Banner #1: Of course, these images already leaked and were posted on /Film over the weekend, found...
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
"Zeno's Paradoxes" by Joe Kissell "Do you ever have one of those days when you just can’t seem to get yourself moving? Or maybe, no matter how hard you try to get caught up, you always seem to lag behind? I have those kinds of days all the time—and so, apparently, did ancient Greek philosophers. One of them, Zeno of Elea, devised an ingenious set of philosophical statements...
Where Are You... (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Dali ’s incredible illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” (published in 1865) have caused it to become one of the rarest and most sought-after Dali suites. With the original gouaches published by Maecenas Press-Random House, New York in 1969, the Suite now contains 12 heliogravures - one for each chapter of the book - and comes with 1 original signed etching...
Submitted to a Candid World (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
From Andrew C. McCarthy (well does he deserve that name), this latest paranoia: The five 9/11 plotters were originally charged in a military commission. Military commissions have been approved by Congress and the courts. Except, no. The Supreme Court explicitly found military commissions constitutionally deficient, and mandated a parallel track of review including habeas in the federal [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
McChrystal argues that the current situation is "critical," and that an escalation "will be decisive." But as former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst A.J. Rossmiller says, the war is a stalemate.
eye4style (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
We may have to wait until March to see Tim Burton 's take on Alice in Wonderland (still above) but New Yorkers will have a holiday treat to tide them over, starting on November 20 thanks to Bergdorf Goodman. Inspired by the imaginative works of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, Bergdorf’s Senior Director of Visual Presentation David Hoey and his team...
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