Stanley Kubrick: Classic or Dud?

A God's-eye view. Surveying the general tendencies of human civilization, I identify.

Man graduating to godhood is surely not a humanist idea is it? Rather the opposite. 2001's iconic theme music is from Thus Spake Zarathustra, hardly your average humanist treatise.

-- Andrew Farrell (afarrel...), Monday 1:44 PM. (afarrell) (later)

how did none of you read this as a joke?

Of course you could say the opposite, in that humanity is unable to progress beyond anything without the help of machines.

I've heard other people say that line more or less straight. Apparently there are fans of that book out there.

"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.