Alice

Following its release in 1988, The New York Times called this dark, arresting Czech adaptation of Alice in Wonderland “extraordinary,” hailing its unique combination of live action and stop-motion animation as “remarkably fluid.” Alice marked prolific director, animator, writer, playwright, and artist Jan Švankmajer’s first foray into feature-filmmaking, and stars Kristýna Kohoutová as the titular girl whose whose experience of Wonderland resembles not a Disney-fied technicolor playground but a dreary and unsettling textured dreamscape.