Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

Directed by	Lance Bangs Spike Jonze
Starring	Maurice Sendak Spike Jonze Catherine Keener
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Hunter Hill Vincent Landay Perry Moore Allison Sarofim
Cinematography	Lance Bangs Jeff Buchanan Spike Jonze
Editor(s)	Jeff Buchanan
Running time	39 minutes
Release
Original release	October 2, 2009 (2009-10-02)

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak is a 2009 television documentary film directed by Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze about children's author Maurice Sendak.

Plot

Starting in 2003 Spike Jonze and his frequent collaborator Lance Bangs began to film a series of interviews with author Maurice Sendak. Sendak spoke about his youth, family, thoughts on death, and his career and some of the controversies that came from his books Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen.^[1]

References

External links

Tell Them Anything You Want at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Spike Jonze

Feature films	Being John Malkovich (1999) Adaptation (2002) Where the Wild Things Are (2009) Her (2013)

Documentaries	Amarillo by Morning (1998) Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009)

Short films	How They Get There (1997) Torrance Rises (1999) We Were Once a Fairytale (2009) I'm Here (2010)

Skateboarding films	Video Days (1991) Yeah Right! (2003) Fully Flared (2007)

Works of Maurice Sendak

Written works	Kenny's Window (1956) Very Far Away (1957) The Sign On Rosie's Door (1960) The Nutshell Library (Chicken Soup with Rice (A Book of Months) Alligators All Around (An Alphabet) One Was Johnny (A Counting Book) Pierre (A Cautionary Tale) (1962) Where the Wild Things Are (1963) Higglety Pigglety Pop!, Or: There Must be More to Life (1967) In the Night Kitchen (1970) Ten Little Rabbits: A Counting Book With Mino The Magician (1970) Some Swell Pup or Are You Sure You Want a Dog? (with Matthew Margolis) (1976) Seven Little Monsters (1977) Fantasy Sketches (1981) Outside Over There (1981) Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes Caldecott and Co: Notes on Books and Pictures (1990) We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures (1993) Maurice Sendak's Christmas Mystery (1995) Mommy? (2006)

Notable illustrated works	Atomics for the Millions (by Dr. Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff) (1947) Singing Family of the Cumberlands (written by Jean Ritchie) (1955) Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm (written by Betty MacDonald) (1954) The Wheel on the School (written by Meindert DeJong) (1954) Little Bear (written by Else Holmelund Minarik) (1957)

See also	Where the Wild Things Are (film adaption) (2009) Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

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