Ellen Cheshire

Given my surname, I have always been a fan of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and his other writings. Over the years I have built up rather a large collection of film adaptations and related stuff, but for one reason or another hadn't gotten round to watching many of them. So last year I made a pledge to watch them, in chronological order, and tweet using the hashtag #CheshireonAlice. Here are the tweets for the first fifty I've watched, from the 1903 silent

It’s been 75 years since Disney’s Fantasia was released, and 15 years since Fantasia 2000 so I thought it time to re-visit them. Fantasia (1940) Prd. Walt Disney, Dir. Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, Walt Disney, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson Composer Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Modest Mussorgsky, Franz Schubert, Amilcare Ponchielli, Paul Duka

150 years ago, people read for the first time Alice’s immortal line “And what is the use of a book, without pictures or conversation?” How she would have loved the movies! On Saturday 23 May 2015 I'll be giving a paper at the Wonderlands: Reading/Writing/Telling Fairy Tales and Fantasy symposium at University of Chichester, organised by the Sussex Centre of Folklore, Fairy Tale and Fantasy.You can see all the presentations from the Wonderlands conference here. I'll be talkin

Having watched the Cocteau's 1946 version last week, this weekend I curled up and watched Disney's 1991 animated classic. Well I had to, you know, for research! Beauty and the Beast (1991) Dir: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale Composer: Alan Menken. Lyrics: Howard Ashman Starring: Paige O'Hara (Belle), Robby Benson (Beast), Rex Everhart (Maurice), Richard White (Gaston), Jesse Corti (Le Fou), Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts), Jerry Orbach (Lumiere), David Ogden Stiers (Cogsworth/Narrat