Haven't seen either Killing or PoG, which to watch first?
― calstars, Friday, 19 September 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
That's not a clearcut choice.
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 September 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
That'd be a tough one for me. They're very similar in at least one respect--the feeling of time inexorably closing in--but worlds apart in so many other ways. The Killing is the weirder movie, I'd say, but I think they're both close to perfect.
― clemenza, Friday, 19 September 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
Life is too short, just watch both of them and then watch Barry Lyndon on the same night!
― xelab, Friday, 19 September 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
Oh man I didn't actually see BL until 3-4 years ago and it really knocked me out
― Simon H., Friday, 19 September 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Ha otm (xp)
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
It is perfect. As much as I like The Duellists or subsequent period movies, BL is perfection.
― xelab, Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
BL's profundity doesn't have much to do with the period.
what is this "watching often" thing re classics? I generally avoid watching films I love any more than once every 5 years, maybe 10. I remember Sarris saying about Casablanca, "I've seen it too much."
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
10+ years sounds good to me. I've only seen The Killing once, about 25 years ago, so it's due. One reason I hardly ever listen to commentary tracks is because I don't want to watch the film again so soon.
― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
The first time i watched BL was months ago , I am currently replacing having no social life with relentless movie watching in these dying days!
― xelab, Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
I can rewatch every few years, but there is a saturation point. More of a problem with music sometimes.
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
Commentary tracks not a problem, actually prefer to rewatch almost immediately after the first viewing if I can, with or without commentary, to see what I missed.
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
when you get to that saturation point with a film you've loved, it can be really sad
which is one reason i often avoid watching my favorite films too many times
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
xpost
RIP Lawrence of Arabia
― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
Wondering when it will be safe for me to watch Alphaville again, for example.
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
My DVD collection is small for someone who watches six movies a week.
When I get from Netflix or check out of the library a film I've seen before with a commentary track, I'll play it and treat the movie like a radio play. I did it recently for Angela Lansbury's commentary for The Picture of Dorian Gray.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
Interesting.
With music I find I can listen to individual tracks, even on repeat, even after the album thrill is gone. I guess the equivalent for film is to watch a scene or two and say "oh, I see how this works" and then move on.
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
Classic just for his use of title cards
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
Rewatching too soon is kind of like reading the lyrics whilst listening to the recordings.
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
Bigger problem for me with songs than with movies. Songs are three minutes, movies are two hours, radio plays "Black Dog" every...I'm not up to the math right now.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
btw i bought the Criterion Paths of Glory for myself last Christmas and haven't watched it yet. Hence I lean on the library.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 September 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
(I will only watch 2001 in a theater. Did so last in 2001.)
Not the first, won't be the last:
http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Kubrick-Masterpiece-Collection-Exclusive/dp/B00M7F47F0
(Maybe someone's already posted this.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Ooh, released within a few days of my birthday. I have one of those on DVD and zero on Blu, so it may happen.
― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/mar/27/features.weekend
http://morbidanatomymuseum.org/event/back-by-popular-demand-stanley-kubricks-boxes-screening-and-discussion-with-jon-ronson/
(sorry, I have no idea if this has been discussed here in the last ten years)
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fDbDqJ2.jpg
― calstars, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
If you are near London you can make an appointment and go and look through the boxes/archive.
http://www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual/library-services/collections-and-archives/archives-and-special-collections-centre/stanley-kubrick-archive/
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 09:08 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ViKu1111/status/529096689554976768/photo/1
― 龜, Monday, 3 November 2014 12:04 (nine years ago) link
haha!
― calstars, Monday, 3 November 2014 12:18 (nine years ago) link
having rewatched ACO after quite some time i've got to say, that was some funny shit. really don't understand how someone could find kubrick humorless.
― nauru, Sunday, 7 December 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link
In Brooklyn there's a retro for James B Harris, which will include the films he produced for SK (The Killing, Paths, Lolita) as well as his directorial efforts, most notoriously the divisive '73 art film Some Call It Loving (hailed below by Rosenbaum, rated BOMB by Leonard Maltin) -- its cast features Mia Farrow's sister Tisa and Richard Pryor. Harris will do several Q&As.
http://www.bam.org/film/2015/overdue-james-b-harris
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1975/10/some-call-it-loving/
(also, take a look at the Tim Carey pic for Fast-Walking)
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
Never seen Some Call it Loving, but Cop, based on a James Ellroy novel, is definitely a hidden gem - really taut and intense crime/police thriller
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i'm gonna try to get to it.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, Cop rocks.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link
Technical stuff about the lenses Kubrick used here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_PIqg449is#t=486
and here:
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 06:28 (nine years ago) link
awesome, thanks ward
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 10:28 (nine years ago) link
James Harris on the Kubrick partnership and after:
Do you know the story about how I fired Tim Carey on the set of Paths of Glory?
I don’t!
Well, I got a call at six in the morning from the Munich police, saying Tim had been found abandoned on the highway, bound hand and foot, claiming he’d been kidnapped. They thought production was responsible, looking for publicity, that it was a staged act. I said I knew nothing about it, but we needed him to work—they were holding him down at the police station. I told them that Tim was making up this story because he wanted the publicity, not us. So they said they would accommodate us by bringing him to the film studio—they were gonna interview him there. But Jim wouldn’t agree to the statement he was supposed to sign, he kept changing things about it. So I went up to Jim and said: “We’re all waiting for you. Sign the paper and get to work.” And he wouldn’t sign the paper, so I fired him right there. You’ll notice in the battle scene, you never see the three men put on trial for cowardice. That’s because the battle was the last thing we filmed, and we couldn’t show the two other actors without showing Tim, too.
http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/interview-james-b-harris
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2015 05:50 (nine years ago) link
That feels untrue. Or maybe too cinematic to be true.
― flavor blasted (kenan), Sunday, 5 April 2015 06:10 (nine years ago) link
That story is more holes than story!
― flavor blasted (kenan), Sunday, 5 April 2015 06:15 (nine years ago) link
Tim? Jim?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 5 April 2015 10:13 (nine years ago) link
I caught Some Call it Loving over xmas, its kind of like Emmanuelle meets Borges (?) Possibly Pryor at his best (like the film bothers to use his energy).
Ian Penman wrote something about this on S&S about a year ago.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 April 2015 10:18 (nine years ago) link
welcome back kenan!
― louie louie whoa baby imago (how's life), Sunday, 5 April 2015 11:14 (nine years ago) link
SCIL def wd make a strange if semi-punishing double bill with Eyes Wide Shut.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
Tim? Jim?There was some confusion related to Jim Thompson as well.
― Is It Because I'm Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 April 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
Baseball-focused right now, so apologies if this has been posted. Haven't watched it, looks interesting, could have gone on a Hitchcock thread too:
https://vimeo.com/142100873
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
nice
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
cool
― a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
Have seen that a lot on Facebook etc - and can always see it again - but it's led me to wonder if Hitchcock and Kurbrick ever met
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
I bet they would have talked about brutalising actors if they did meet.
re-watched Paths of Glory again last night, it gets better every time I see it.
― xelab, Thursday, 15 October 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link