Spike Jonze Turns Maurice Sendak's Classic Children's Book into an Adult Work of Art

New York Press | October 15, 2009
Jonze's sensibility is an authentic development of the music-video era's generational split -- which is also an aesthetic split. He doesn't exploit pop rebellion but has a counter-intuitive slant on what's funny, sad, universal.

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