Alice (1988)

If you are unfamiliar with the films of the Czech director Jan Svankmajer, you are missing the work of one of the most original talents of our times.  To call him an animator is to minimise what he does since he mixes live action, stop-motion, and puppets to produce some of the most mind-blowing images around.  Apart from his short films (all miraculous), he has made a number of full-length movies of which this is one of the earliest.  His take on "Alice in Wonderland" bears little resemblance to any other version you may have seen; the elements are all there but presented in such a skewed fashion that it all seems new.  Alice doesn't go down a rabbit hole but is sucked through a desk drawer and her adventures continue apace.  Svankmajer is able to imbue everyday objects with a touch of menace and so captures a child's view of a parallel world.  It must be nice to be a genius!