Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009) on Netflix
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Maurice Sendak sits for interviews that began in 2003. He talks about his youth, his family, his thoughts on death, and his career in children's books.
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Plot summary
Maurice Sendak made his name as a writer and illustrator of books for children, a celebrated and much-debated figure in the field. Conversations with him were filmed from 2003 onward, and in them he looks back over his life and work. He speaks about growing up and about his family, about his own feelings toward death, and about the long career that produced his books. He also discusses the strong reactions that two of his titles drew, Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry hosted a screening of the portrait in 2022.
