So you didn’t take my advice and see Where The Wild Things Are on IMAX? Yeah, I get it, why would you pay money to see a kids movie? You’re an adult. A big bad adult. Too mature for childish things. Too cool for school. Don’t worry, dummies. The DVD/Blu-Ray is releasing March 2nd. You’ll have another chance to see this under appreciated piece of art that will grow in cult status over time. I truly believe this should have been one of the 10 Best Picture Nominees.  It’s definitely more deserving than The Blind Side.  You can thank me later. And I fully expect to be thanked. Embrace your inner child…you’ll be a better person for it.

The DVD is said to have a ton of behind the scenes footage and interviews. It also boasts the animated short based on another Sendak story, “Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life” featuring the voices of Meryl Streep and forest Whitaker. Spike Jonze produced the short directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski.

The Higglet Pigglety Pop premise:

Once Jennie had everything. She had two bowls to eat from, two pillows, and for cold weather, a red wool sweater. She even had a master who loved her. But Jennie didn’t care. In the middle of the night she packed everything she had in a black leather bag with gold buckles and looked out of her favorite window for the last time… Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life follows Jennie’s surreal, suspenseful and unexpectedly moving journey to gain new experiences and realize her dream of becoming the star of the World Mother Goose Theatre.

And that’s not all.  If you’re a Spike Jonze fan, the month of March will be a treat for you.

Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak, the Jonze and Lance Bangs’ documentary that aired on HBO last fall. They will be releasing the forty-minute doc on DVD March 2nd, the same day as the DVD/BluRay release of WTWTA.  Tell Them Anything, is said to be an honest, melancholy, and biting tribute to the author and featuring the likes of James Gandolfini, Meryl Streep, Catherine Keener and Tony Kushner.  It is labeled as a frank and almost brutally naked portrait of Sendak, told by Sendak himself.  Recently I was in a Children’s Book Art store in Brentwood and ran across original sketches by Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak.

Dr. Seuss pencil sketch: $8,000

Sendak pencil sketch: $15,000

Film Savior purchase: None of the above

And lastly, let’s not forget about Jonze’s latest short film (trailer is HERE), the robot love story I’m Here which debuted at Sundance Film Festival. While details on who and how the short will be distributed are yet to be finalized, I’ve been hearing that a late March release seems likely.

March is  Spike Jonze month.  Like it, love it, embrace it.