![]() ![]() Much of its imagery eludes my attempts to reach a cohesive interpretation, but that just makes it all the more fascinating.Ĭoraline follows a pre-teen girl who still scowls at boys, and the heroine’s adventures feel like the fears and fantasies of a child. While I love both films, I prefer Mirrormaskfor the hallucinatory splendor of McKean’s work. MirrorMask‘s fairyland was created by David McKean, the artist and animator who illustrated Gaiman’s comic book series called The Sandman. Seek it out and I suspect you’ll agree - MirrorMask is every bit as original and fascinating as Coraline. Having covered Coraline in my previous post, I’d like to call attention to Neil Gaiman’s other recent variation on Alice in Wonderland, a film that slipped past most moviegoers in 2005 with very little fanfare. I hope it convinces you to seek out this one-of-a-kind motion picture. ![]() ![]() I wrote about the film in Part Two of my Good Letters series called “Neil Gaiman’s Girls.” Here’s that original piece. I didn’t discover it until long after it had left theaters, and that’s a shame, because it is a big-screen spectacle par excellence. Unfortunately, MirrorMask, the company’s most wildly imaginative post-Henson release, remains fairly obscure. ![]()
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