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[VIDEO] Wish List - Where the Wild Things Are Documentary - Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak Blu-ray

By brenden ⋅ October 13, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Oh wow! Spike Jonze has made a documentary on Maurice Sendak, the author of the book Where the Wild Things Are. Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak airs on HBO tomorrow night, October 14, in the USA, just in time to support Jonze’s adaptation of the book for the big screen! Both films look fantastic and I’m a bit gutted that we’re not going to see the documentary here in Canada (in fact, I had to use an American proxy server just to watch the geo-locked trailer for the doc!) I’m hoping and praying it will be included on Warner’s eventual Blu-ray edition of the Where the Wild Things Are feature film. Hell, it might even get its own release at this rate. Word on the street has Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak shortlisted for an Academy Award!

While I might not have much faith in seeing the Sendak doc as an extra on the Wild Things Blu-ray disc, I can almost guarantee that we’ll see this series of featurettes on the creation of the soundtrack:

You’ll find a lot more on YouTube!

Meanwhile, if you can’t get your fill of Sendak’s work and want to show the world your love for his characters, check out Elaine Ho’s cute, little silver Where the Wild Things Are pendants featuring two of the lead characters - the young boy, Max and Carol, one of the Wild Things!

Tags: Adaptation, Books, Children's Books, HBO, Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, Warner, Warner Home Video, Where the Wild Things Are