Stanley Kubrick: Classic or Dud?

"internegative" of Barry Lyndon this weekend in NYC:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/barrylyndon.html

Marisa Berenson was hot in that movie, Time was right

she was supposed to show at above screenings, just Leon Vitali now, apparently.

I are jealous. that thing's gonna look sumptuous. wonder if they're projecting at 1.37 or 1.66...

from DVDbeaver:

Warner Home Video Director's Series: Stanley Kubrick Collection on 23rd October 2007. 2001: A Space Odyssey (2-Disc Special Edition), A Clockwork Orange (2-Disc Special Edition), Eyes Wide Shut (2-Disc Special Edition), The Shining (2-Disc Special Edition WIDESCREEN), Barry Lyndon and Lolita
A Deluxe Edition of Full Metal Jacket will also be released in Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD

The Shining (2-Disc Special Edition WIDESCREEN)

ooh...

yeah... bit of a misnomer. kubrick wasn't a big fan of wide formats, 'specially for home viewing.

ok between this and blade runner i'm going to be geeked out this year

any chance of a commentary on these from kubrick?

this is pretty fuckin' typical -- i finally got a stack o' kubrick dvds earlier this year. very cheaply though. i wonder what will be on them.

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no, he died in 1999.

i know that

do i have to put a ";-)" after everything?

i know you knew, i sort of zinging. it's early.

there are definitely loads of deleted scenes from '2001'. 'strangelove' (which isn't warner i guess so not included here) has an alt ending.

"kubrick wasn't a big fan of wide formats, 'specially for home viewing."

but we have big flat wall-hung TV's now and we didnt then.

i wonder if the making of 2001 doc will be included in that disc.

i mean i actually have an ancient 13 inch portable.

i think he actually shot academy ratio on everything post-2001 -- even 'barry lyndon'.

'strangelove' (which isn't warner i guess so not included here) has an alt ending.

Do you mean the pie fight scene? If I remember correctly, there isn't any footage surviving from that.

ah.

more details on the new DVDs (and Eyes Wide Shut will be the uncensored Euro version):

http://www.cinematical.com/2007/08/22/warning-to-kubrick-fanatics-start-saving-your-pennies/

Uh, so they fucked with the aspect ratios of the films to suit new televisions, and there's no release in a hi def format, and this new box will lack Dr. Strangelove.

Looks like I'm sticking with my current box set, thanks.

TMC has Fail-Safe on and so far it's quite a bit more entertaining than Strangelove, although as pointed out by the presenter this would have been a rather improbable opinion to formulate, much less defend, in 1964.

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/oscars/77th_academy_awards_ceremony_photos/_group_photos/sidney_lumet15.jpg

this would have been a rather improbable opinion to formulate, much less defend, in 1964.

Still is! It's from an era when George C Scott was allowed to be funnier than Walter Matthau.

But where did George get with Yvonne De Carlo?

Oh wait.

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Ken, we should really go to the movies sometime.

I got Walter mixed up with Tony Curtis for a second. Yeah, I might be able to get away in the near future. You and Ian going to see that Ian Curtis thing?

Stanley Kubrick: a Life in Pictures is finally releasing on Netflix this week. I've been waiting seven years to see this.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278736/

3 minute short doc on Kubrick: http://www.aantranikian.com/kubrick.html

The 18 minute interview with Tony Kaye they made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa9DD_q0CM8

i like the font where they have written KUBRICK on the first link. do you have any idea what it is?

http://www.aantranikian.com/images/banner_kubrick.jpg

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also, this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/03/channel4.kubrick

jesus, how much did that cost?!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5739282975440441779

awesome

subtitle: i was a paralegal for stanley kubrick

argh almost worked on that :(

Anthony Harvey on editing Strangelove:

http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/787

Great link. Thanks.

Still no blu-rays of Lolita and Barry Lyndon :(

I've never been totally clear on the whole aspect ratio issue with Kubrick's films- correct me if I'm wrong, but it was my understanding that Kubrick's problem was with letterboxing on 4:3 screens more than widescreen itself, yes? I mean, I can't imagine watching 2001 cropped, and weren't his post-2001 films shot for widescreen theatrical showings? I'm sure Kubrick had enough clout that he could've had them shown in a narrower ratio if he thought it was necessary...

Yeah, I think his beef was about showing the films on TVs, but with TVs being widescreen mostly nowadays, it's not such an issue.

he would make two versions, shooting more vertical so that the tv version would not be cropped.

wait, they wd be different takes?

or just made 2 versions in post?

same take, but ya, cropped later.

it is cause for an ENDLESS debate among kubrick heads and aspect ratio trainspotters tho.

well I think they shd be seen the way they were in theaters, now that letterboxing is commonplace. Why debate?

some people make the argument that he preferred a squarer frame, just in general. he was definitely opposed to letterboxing on 4:3 TVs but now that most TVs are widescreen that seems moot. the main issue seems to be that he never clearly named his preference.