Who else can't wait for this movie?! As a kid, Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen was my favorite book. My mom and late grandmother (Grammy as I called her) probably knew the text by heart as I would have them read it too me over and over, "Milk in the Batter! Milk in the Batter! We Bake Cake! And Nothings the Matter!" I was attracted to this and his other stories that had the perfect combination of fantasy and a playful eeriness. My attracting to this fantastic world continued with my obsession with Jim Henson's Labrynth.

The way Where the Wild Things Are looks, it certainly holds the same realistic fantasy world that Henson portrayed with his characters.

UPDATE

After cracking down on youtube and other sites, the exclusive trailer is now only available on Apple.com

During my freshman writing class we watched a film that was both horrifying and mesmerizing. The film, Decasia, recently came to mind and in doing so, I came across this great interview about the approach of the film and the purpose of its creation. Our project in class was to make a film in response to one of the movies we saw in class. I was amazed by the similarities in what the Bill Morrison was saying about others responses to the movie, his thought behind the film, and my short film. I dug up my film from my old school archives to present it here.

Interview on Decasia.

My Assignment Response

Precious Things from ckaufman on Vimeo.

*Contains images of war.