Where the Wild Things Are: Spike Jonze and Maurice Sendak clashed over bedroom scene
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Spike Jonze admits row with author Maurice Sendak over adaptation.
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Desperately seeking Sendak
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers relive the cold winter's day when they went to visit famously prickly writer Maurice Sendak, to talk about filming Where the Wild Things Are Dave Eggers: So here we are. It's always awkward doing this kind of thing together. If we wrote this the way we wrote the script, fighting over every word, it would probably take a year. Spike Jonze: We should just have...
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Sendak and Cyberspace
Bryan Appleyard (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
In The Sunday Times, as Spike Jonze's film of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are opens, I, write about children's movies and I discuss censorship of cyberspace.
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Maurice Sendak: Call of the wild
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
At just 338 words, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are must be among the shortest books in the canon of popular fiction.
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Being Maurice Sendak
Davenetics (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Doesn’t it seem weird that there even is a real Maurice Sendak? I was listening to some outtakes of appearances he’s made on Fresh Air, and the whole time I just kept thinking, “Come on. You’re actually that Maurice Sendak?” Think about it. You’re Maurice Sendak. You’re at a dinner party (anywhere, really). Someone...
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Sendak and Warhol on the Block
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... On top of the Warhol (and Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, et al) works, a very rare edition of Maurice Sendak's first picture book will be auctioned off. It's titled Good Shabbos, Everybody and "was commissioned after illustrator Leonard Weisgard saw one of Sendak's window displays for FAO Schwartz in New York." Also being offered up is a poster he drew for a New York...
- A Wild Thing reading Villette - BrontëBlog
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Where Where The Wild Things Are Came From
Animated Views (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
With the UK preparing for the release of Spike Jonze’s feature film version of Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are on December 11, the Guardian online has the director and co-writer Dave Eggers lightheartedly recalling the cold day they visited the author at his Connecticut home to talk about filming his book.
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“..Where the Wild Things Are comes to the cinema..”
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
“..Director Spike Jonze tells how he turned his favourite childhood book by Maurice Sendak into a film with James Gandolfini Just before interviewing Spike Jonze in Soho, I dart into a bookshop and reread Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. It’s been years, and there are so many things I’d forgotten — such as in [...]
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Six Popular Movie Critiques For You To See
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... This is tremendously annoying. However the Tchaikovsky music is, obviously, amazing, as are Maurice Sendak’s sets and costumes. Cast includes Hugh Bigney, Vanessa Sharp, Patricia Barker, Wade Walthall, Russell Burnett, and the voice of Julie Harris. (89 minutes,’86)Hail Caesar – Horrible music-megastar wannabe (Chamber) is in love with an offensive debutante, whose dad is arranging...
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Win A Signed Where the Wild Things Are Poster
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
It's one of 2009's most anticipated films -- director Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's kids' classic, Where the Wild Things Are -- and it's almost, at long last, about to arrive in cinemas. To celebrate, Rotten Tomatoes and Roadshow Films are giving one lucky reader the chance to own a one-of-a-kind prize: a Where the Wild Things Are poster (like the one at left), signed by...
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A 'Fantastic' Trip to Roald Dahl's Beautiful Estate & Museum
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... I'm sure some of you aren't as familiar with Roald Dahl as other authors like Dr. Seuss or Maurice Sendak. In England, it's the complete opposite, and everyone grew up with Dahl and loves him. This museum, located in the beautiful town of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, UK, is designed to not only educate people about his life and who he was, but spark their imagination and get...
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Where the Wild Things Are; dir. Spike Jonze
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Maurice Sendak's children's classic Where the Wild Things Are isn't plot-driven. There's not much text, and he uses a lot of repetition ("and they roared their terrible roars," etc.) that gives the book an incantatory feel. As though we,...
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Where The Wild Things Are - EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE!
Plain Janes Love to ARTiculate (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Many of you might remember one of the greatest children’s book “ Where The Wild Things Are ” by Maurice Sendak . It was published in the early 60s and from generations this book has no doubt been passed down or you might have come across it somehow. I remember so vaguely, finding the book in my cousin’s closet, and finding the illustrations as a young boy a little...
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Opening Ceremony x Where The Wild Things Are Novel by Dave Eggers
Hypetrak (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Opening Ceremony and the Where The Wild Things Are franchise have teamed up to release a special copy of the novel by Dave Eggers. Decked out in a fur motif, the book features an opening unveiling the eyes of the book’s main character, Max. The Dave Eggers novel is adapted from the original Maurice Sendak [...]
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009) - Movie Review
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Written by: Dave Eggers & Spike Jonze, based on the book by Maurice SendakDirected by: Spike JonzeStarring: Max Records, Catherine Keener, Paul Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Forest Whitaker My Advice: Don't miss it. Max (Records) is a young, imaginative energetic boy. He has a sister (Pepita Emmerichs) and a mother (Keener). His father is not present. [...]