Adaptations and Such

I've seen several expressions of relief by children's book folk after they viewed the new Where the Wild Things Are movie featurette in which Maurice Sendak expresses confidence and appreciation for Spike Jonze's vision for his book.  While I too am happy that it has met with Sendak's approval, I also want to point out that Jonze is a very, very unconventional filmmaker and the film is likely to be his own and a very different aesthetic experience from the book.  The two movies of his I've seen