"Spike Jonze is known for making videos and movies his way — fast, cheap and dirty — but adapting Maurice Sendak's classic book turned out to be slow, expensive and very complicated."
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- Bringing 'Where the Wild Things Are' To The Screen
- Learn Something Everyday
- Visual Effects - 100 Years of Inspiration
- William Hoffman's "Moments" - Video
- Playing the building...
- Thinking 'Outside the Box' - video
Categories
- "Build a Camera in the Rain Forest"
- "Conquer my fear of nudity"
- "Get Published"
- "Make a Movie"
- "Move to New Zealand"
- "Postcards from the Peace Corps" by Stoney Schaffer
- "Quit Smoking"
- "Start a business"
- "Trials of Tim"
- "Working Life" by Gigi Burgdorf
- 'Freewheeling with Joe Kurmaskie'
- 2DO Bloggers
- 2DO Questions
- 2DO Store
- 2doodles
- About Us
- Arts
- Book Tour
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- Margaret's Picks
- Mike and Chris
- Movies
- Music
- Obits
- Press
- Recent Picks
- Regrets, I've Had A Few...
- Science & Nature
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- Sports and challenges
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- Submit a link
- The book
- Tim Thornton's 'Tuning In'
- Travel
- Video - 2DO
Tags
- "Build a Camera in the Rain Forest"
- "Conquer my fear of nudity"
- "Get Published"
- "Make a Movie"
- "Move to New Zealand"
- "Postcards from the Peace Corps" by Stoney Schaffer
- "Quit Smoking"
- "Start a business"
- "Trials of Tim"
- "Working Life" by Gigi Burgdorf
- 'Freewheeling with Joe Kurmaskie'
- 2DO Bloggers
- 2DO Questions
- 2DO Store
- 2doodles
- About Us
- Arts
- Book Tour
- Books
- Business
- Careers
- Contributors
- Current Affairs
- Events
- Fight for a cause
- Film
- Heroes
- Inventions
- Life Stories
- Lists
- Margaret's Picks
- Mike and Chris
- Movies
- Music
- Obits
- Press
- Recent Picks
- Regrets, I've Had A Few...
- Science & Nature
- Sports
- Sports and challenges
- Stories
- Submit a link
- The book
- Tim Thornton's 'Tuning In'
- Travel
- Video - 2DO
Good stuff - here's an article and video featuring maurice sendak and his reaction to the making of the film. Well worth a watch, maybe even an alarm clock...
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/july1/maurice-sendak
Posted by: Chris | September 07, 2009 at 11:50 AM