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Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse

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Supposedly based on the true story of how six-year-old Roald Dahl met his favourite author Beatrix Potter when she was eighty. According to one news story, Dahl related the event to his friend Brough Girling before his death in 1990, and Mr Girling spoke about it for the first time ahead in 2008. Girling also claims that Felicity Dahl confirmed the story.

That said, I find it rather surprising that neither Treglown nor Sturrock mentions this meeting in their biographies of Dahl. You’d think two of the most famous children’s authors having a run-in would merit a mention, wouldn’t you? 🤔

Revolting Rhymes

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Based on the much-loved children’s book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, Revolting Rhymes takes the classic fairy tales of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, The Three Little Pigs, Jack & the Beanstalk and Cinderella, then mixes them together and serves them with a mischievous twist.

The first film sees young Snow White and Red Riding Hood become lifelong friends as Snow White takes on the might of the wicked Queen, whilst Red is called home to deal with a pair of hungry wolves – one who’s eaten her grandma and then dressed in her clothes, while the other can’t help himself from eating some unsuspecting pigs.

In the second film Jack grows up with his heart set on next-door neighbour Cindy. She has her eye turned by the eligible Prince at the ball, and Jack gets distracted by a giant beanstalk at the bottom of his garden. Will they find true love?

Overarching both films, our narrator, a big bad wolf, has all the answers as well as a story of his own to tell.

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Four Rooms

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  • Produced in 1995
  • What Dahl Did: wrote original short story “Man From the South,” which inspired the last of the four segments in this anthology film
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The story is set in the fictional Hotel Mon Signor in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. Tim Roth plays Ted, the bellhop and main character in the frame story, whose first night on the job consists of four very different encounters with various hotel guests.

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Nativity

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  • Short film produced in 1980 by Doug Howard
  • Winner of first prize in the 1980 Canberra Movie Makers awards
  • What Dahl Did: wrote original story entitled “Genesis and Catastrophe”

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Excerpt from: CINEMA ACT winners screen at Reid tonight (1980, November 24). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995), p. 8. Retrieved September 30, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126160273

‘Nativity’, by Doug Howard, had no difficulty in carrying off the major award. The reasons will be obvious. The script, adapted from one of Roald Dahl’s short stories, gives it a significant start. Howard filmed under tightly-controlled conditions, in blacks, whites and reds. The dramatic tension builds up through a mother’s fear that this new child, like her others, will not survive. ‘Nativity’ depends very much on its punchline, which reveals the child’s identity.

Roald Dahl’s Classic Tales

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Le Coup du berger

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Le Coup du berger is a twenty-eight-minute short film directed by Jacques Rivette. It stars Virginie Vitry as a wife cheating on her husband (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze). When her lover (Jean-Claude Brialy) buys her a mink coat, the adulterous pair hatch a plan to avoid her husband’s questioning the coat’s origins.

Fool’s Mate is considered by some to be the first film of the French New Wave, or the movement’s earliest antecedent. Released in 1956, the film is something of a curio thanks to a scene in which Rivette and New Wave contemporaries Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, and François Truffaut are seen in the same room as party guests.

Note: The film is not actually based on Dahl’s story, but rather on the same apocryphal anecdote that Dahl based his story on.

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Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood

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Derived from one of Roald Dahl’s ‘Revolting Rhymes’, this reworking of the classic fairytale is fun for all the family. It stars Julie Walters and Danny De Vito and is accompanied by a lavish new score and state of the art visual effects. It was produced by the BBC in conjunction with the Roald Dahl Foundation and was the BBC’s ‘Omnibus’ Christmas 1995 special. Features music composed by Paul Patterson, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Franz Welser-Most.

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Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts

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