Alice

This astounding work by Czech surrealist animator Jan Švankmajer is, without doubt, the most spectacular adaptation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland."  The film is abundant with a stunning combination of pure nonsense and careful logic, black humor, and psychological enlightenment, including many outlandish moments: Alice, played by an actress (the rest of the roles are portrayed by puppets), not only changes her size but becomes a doll, when the white rabbit loses its stuffing, it fastens itself with a safety pin and devours sawdust, skulls hatch from eggs, steaks crawl on the floor, etc. In scary and magical moments, this is a film that demonstrates the original thinking of the Czech artist with fidelity to Carroll's spirit.