The movie

Alice
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What is childhood really like? Is it like how it's portrayed in The Wizard of Oz and E.T.--or is it something altogether different, like the world in Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man," where something's happening but you don't know what it is? Mike and Dan talk about Alice, the 1988 film by Jan Švankmajer that gets the feel of Lewis Carroll's books--and childhood--exactly right. "A film for children--perhaps" is how the title character describes it and the "perhaps" is what makes the film so compelling. Samuel Beckett, Zork, Tim Burton, and Mr. Bean all come into the conv...

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