Wow!
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 May 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
watched Fear and Desire, it was ok. Paul Mazursky's first film role!
― Dan S, Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
can see the humor in Lolita but struggle to be amused by Dr. Strangelove, I think it is the wrong time to rewatch this movie, it’s hard to see it as comedy at this moment
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 June 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
That’s what makes it great? Human being’s survival isn’t a factor in the humor.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
I do think it is great, watched it again today trying to ignore the present moment, appreciated it more
― Dan S, Saturday, 6 June 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
I watched "Strangelove" with my older kid recently, and it really hit me, for the first time, just *how* black it is as a black comedy. Like, it goes so far in that direction that it's barely a comedy. George C. Scott is brilliantly broad, and the bits with him and the Russian ambassador are slapstick funny, sure, but so much of the rest of it is so bone-dry in its delivery. The humor is in the absurdity and mounting doom of the scenario, not in the jokes, per se.
I bet Kubrick was a big fan of "Airplane!", though.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 June 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
Sellers' reactions during the bodily fluids discussion are gold
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 6 June 2020 04:23 (three years ago) link
Filmworker is on film 4 on Wednesday night (at 01:50)
― koogs, Saturday, 6 June 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
rewatched A Clockwork Orange in a dysphoric state of mind. The vision, concepts, imagery were great but I didn't enjoy it. I appreciated Kubrick's dystopian films when I felt more secure and safe myself, but not now
― Dan S, Saturday, 4 July 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
watching it now I just want the comfort of Singing in the Rain
― Dan S, Saturday, 4 July 2020 01:41 (three years ago) link
An ugly film I managed to get through twice; no desire to revisit.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 July 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
I think it stands at the top of the heap as an aesthetic achievement, but yes, it’s ugly. It has to be ugly.
― circa1916, Saturday, 4 July 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
I did think about that after I posted--it can't be anything else, so I'd really have to organize my thoughts and provide a lot more explanation than just that.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 July 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
Understand. I will say for such a deeply stylized and attractively art directed film, the violence in it has always struck me as uniquely disturbing. There’s nothing cool or sexy about any of it.
― circa1916, Saturday, 4 July 2020 04:01 (three years ago) link
It’s his most puerile, which for him must have been some kind of achievement.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 July 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
It has to be ugly.
It doesn't have to be uglier, more puerile and more vulgar than the book, which it is.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
Barry Lyndon is melancholic and beautiful, very detailed and extremely long. I’ve managed to watch it in one sitting, but that in general seems hard for me in 2020
― Dan S, Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
I like the above assertion that it is skewering pomposity and I agree with d leone’s long ago posts about the symmetry of it - rise and decline, all uphill the first half, and a gradual descent into hopelessness in the second
― Dan S, Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
I had vague memories of it as geneal and benign when I saw it at first but now it’s clear to me after watching his films again after all these years that 2001 was really Kubrick’s most optimistic, humanist film.
― Dan S, Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
the candle-lit scenes in Barry Lyndon were beautiful
― Dan S, Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
I like the 60s/70s crap British futuristic squalor of Clockwork Orange, can only think of one other film with that kind of feel to it - Jubilee.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 July 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
have been planning on watching Sebastiane and Jubilee
― Dan S, Friday, 24 July 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
it definitely benefits from that brutalist architecture and design
also Stan was at least 10x the filmmaker Derek Jarman was
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 July 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
watched The Shining again, seeing it again after all of these years reminded me that it’s hard to remove one's self from the original experience
― Dan S, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
it’s hard to remove one's self from the original experience
Wait.. Dan... Danny?
― Basil Ker-ching (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 07:51 (three years ago) link
:)
went with my older sister to see it, she let me choose the film, it scared her so much that she never quite forgave me for the decision
― Dan S, Thursday, 13 August 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
So the guy who directed "Dr. Strangelove" also directed a movie called "Barry Lyndon" and not once mentioned the Daisy ad.
― pplains, Monday, 31 August 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
Not explicitly, no, but if you take into account the title and the fact that he also directed 2001 (“Daisy, Daisy”)... it’s up to you to connect the dots
― Scampo No. 5 (wins), Monday, 31 August 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
holy crap, it's all been right there on the screen the entire time.
― pplains, Monday, 31 August 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
What’s the daisy ad
― flappy bird, Monday, 31 August 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7SW5aOX2_I
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 31 August 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
I don't know which is scarier, nuclear war or white people using sour cream as a dip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riDypP1KfOU
― pplains, Monday, 31 August 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Is anyone else confused about this thread revive?
― Alba, Monday, 31 August 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
At my first Zoom synchronous lecture about an hour ago, several of my film students named Kubrick films and admitted to loving them -- dude, always dudes.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 August 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
these dude are in the 18-24 range.
― Alba, Monday, 31 August 2020 23:15 (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was, but looked it up earlier, and it turns out "the Daisy ad" went out (one) in Sept 1964, 9 months after Dr Strangelove went on general release, so if anything the direction of influence is that way round. Im guessing the revive post was a gag though, so
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 31 August 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
D'oh I've just realised the Barry Lyndon/LBJ part of the gag.
― Alba, Monday, 31 August 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
To spell it out, Lyndon's opponent in '64 was a guy named Barry.
― pplains, Monday, 31 August 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
ZOMG
― Alba, Monday, 31 August 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
Ha holy shit
― life is beauitul (rip van wanko), Monday, 31 August 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
yeah, i got that part (Goldwater/Lyndon). I thought the main gag was that Dr Strangelove might have been influenced by an ad that came after it was made
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 31 August 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
the first part of Full Metal Jacket seemed a lot funnier than I remember it being when I first watched it
― Dan S, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
saw Eyes Wide Shut again after many years, I was reminded that behind the erotic thriller it is about a relationship in trouble
― Dan S, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
there were a lot of really enigmatic moments though, that were hard to incorporate into the story and which made me wonder what else was going on
― Dan S, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
Two friends and I covered Kubrick's whole career in these monthly Zooms we've been doing. This one's split into eight parts, the kind of thing you can pick up wherever. Generally speaking, I'm a fan, Steven (for the most part) isn't, Scott's somewhere in between, I think we got a little tired the farther we got into it. I followed up by reading Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece--obsessively detailed, made me want to watch it again (I'm an arm's-length admirer), but wow, a lot of the descriptions of what they were up to were so abstract for me. I just didn't understand a lot of the technical stuff.
Fear and Desire - SpartacusLolita - Strangelove2001Clockwork OrangeBarry LyndonThe ShiningFull Metal JacketEyes Wide Shut
― clemenza, Saturday, 21 August 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
nice! looking forward to watching at least some of these.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 21 August 2021 01:01 (two years ago) link
Thanks, J.D. For all my befuddlement, recommend that book, too. I'm at least clearer on some of the film's most basic plot points.
― clemenza, Saturday, 21 August 2021 01:08 (two years ago) link
inspired by Blank Check podcast’s Kubrick series, watching Spartacus for the first timenot to state the obvious but goddamn what a great movie. I love this epic stuff.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 August 2022 04:00 (one year ago) link
Fascinated to read this about STRANGELOVE:https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/my-coffee-with-stanley-kubrick.html
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 28 November 2022 05:29 (one year ago) link
So the people behind the Filmworker documentary have completed another Kubrick-related documentary called SK-13, and some interesting information about Eyes Wide Shut being edited even after his death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZE_IfSz1qI
― MaresNest, Saturday, 23 September 2023 19:46 (eight months ago) link