http://paulnahm.blogspot.com/2010/06/playboy-interview-wstanley-kubrick-in.html
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 October 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
Killer's Kiss actress Irene Kane aka Chris Chase RIP
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/irene-kane-kubrick-actress-chris-chase-652790
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/78314194
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
is there a good biography of this guy?
― markers, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
Let me Amazon that for you
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography by Vincent LoBrutto gets an average 3½ stars in reader reviewsStanley Kubrick: A Biography by John Baxter gets an average 4 stars in reader reviews
Therefore you should read John Baxter's biography
― goth colouring book (anagram), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
lol
― markers, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
if anyone has an interest in kubrick and can answer my question, i'd appreciate that
― markers, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
i read the LoBrutto one a long time ago and didn't think it was very good. and it'd be pretty out of date by now, i think.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Baxter does some of the commentary for The Shining DVD; not especially illuminating chat, tbh.
The LoBrutto is good on 'the facts', but leans a bit too heavily on a few, relatively tangential sources. He obviously didn't have access to Kubrick or any of Kubrick's family.
AFAIK, the Alexander Walker book, 'Stanley Kubrick Directs', is the only book that Kubrick had some input on.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
can we expand this question to books in general?
michel chion's book on EWS is pretty good but I can't think of too many others.
― ryan, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
thanks guys! ryan, sure, take it away from here
― markers, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
The BFI classic on 2001 is also pretty good - takes some interesting routes into the film, most especially its anti-nuke message. The Shining volume isn't as good, but that may just be that, post-Room 237, a straightforward run down of the film seems a little redundant.The Piers Bizony '2001: Filming the Future' is a good production history that doesn't pretend to offer a single critical opinion.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
both those biogs pretty bore
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
at some point i think i'm gonna get a copy of the interviews book.
― markers, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1578062977/
has anybody ever bought or leafed through the Napoleon book?
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
ja
― caek, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
it's worth leafing through
I wish there was a big quasi-academic study a la tom cohen's books on hitchcock. maybe there is and I don't know about it.
― ryan, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
I have a friend who recently went with his boss to spend some time at the Kubrick archive at the University Of The Arts in Elephant & Castle. He had a pretty mind blowing experience, it's all there there for the public to peruse, who knew?
http://www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual/library-services/collections-and-archives/archives-and-special-collections-centre/stanley-kubrick-archive/
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
deleuze on kubrick is interesting, jameson on the shining too although its a decade since i read it
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
i've been to the archive. it's cool.
― caek, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
ever since that tom scharpling aimee mann video i have a hard time not pronouncing his name as "klubrick"
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
Jon Ronson's documentary 'Stanley Kubrick's Boxes' is online and worth watching if you haven't seen it: http://vimeo.com/78314194
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
you know, The Killing is such a dazzler!
The internet seems to disagree about whether SK was forced to add the narration. Well?
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1968-three-reasons-the-killing
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 July 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
did you see this out last night?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 27 July 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
yep, and I couldn't stay for Kiss Me Deadly cuz I wound up seeing a new dull Mexican arty queer semi-porn film at Lincoln Center. :/
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 July 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
Editing Barry Lyndon: http://m.imgur.com/a/dHY9q
― calstars, Monday, 11 August 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
Kubrick's films play all the time, so this isn't that noteworthy, but:
http://www.tiff.net/cinematheque/stanley-kubrick-a-cinematic-odyssey
No Fear and Desire--not sure if it's even possible to see that.
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 September 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
It's Possible
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 September 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
Check internet--why didn't I think of that? Just ordered a new copy for under $15.
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
they're doing a Kubrick retrospective here in Dublin for the next few months. Fear & Desire (+ Day Of The Fight, Flying Padre, and The Seafarers) showing next week
― Number None, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
i watched 'fear and desire' on youtube a few years back (one of the few times i've ever done that with a movie). definitely for committed fans only, but it's not nearly as bad as kubrick thought it was.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
Those shorts will be playing before one of the two Killer's Kiss screenings here. I liked Killer's Kiss the one time I saw it--I may just see the standalone screening of that.
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Enjoyed the Killing a lot (and similarly skipped Kiss Me Deadly for... Les Amants, I think it was?), but beyond the structural invention I don't care about, I don't see what's so special about it beyond its service as a prototype for the various I-think-greater best-laid-plans films that followed. I suppose those that feel differently may be actively rooting for the SNAFU? I'll take Soderbergh, TYVM.
― benbbag, Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
Toronto is getting the museum show next, right
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 September 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
One of the highlights of The Killing for me is Timothy Carey's character with the fabulously guttural accent, but his overwrought shift in Paths Of Glory was quite jarring - he seems like a hit and miss type of actor.
― xelab, Friday, 19 September 2014 08:55 (nine years ago) link
Carey's a highlight for me too. I've always thought he's doing a bit of a Kirk Douglas parody in The Killing, or at least borrowed his clenched-teeth delivery from Douglas. I like him a lot in Paths of Glory, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bPAUI-WsLc
(Movieclips is so annoying.)
― clemenza, Friday, 19 September 2014 11:25 (nine years ago) link
don't find him overwrought at all in PoG -- he plays kooky guys.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 September 2014 11:41 (nine years ago) link
Probably a harsh comment on reflection, but I really didn't want his character to go out blubbing!
― xelab, Friday, 19 September 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
it's a bit much, but that's the point
that whole film is pretty strident though, i have a hard time w/ it
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 19 September 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
As a fan of genuine regional accents Carey's is up there with the best. Also I like actors in crime movies who look like they have taken kickings from the cops IRL.
― xelab, Friday, 19 September 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
PoG is fantastic
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 September 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
I can't think of a reason to watch it often -- it's too dogmatic to fully enjoy -- but as anti-war agitprop it's the best of its kind when it's not giving Kirk Douglas and Adolphe Menjou space.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 September 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
and it's a more riveting goon show than Dr Strangelove.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 September 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
oh, dogma, heavens can't have that
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 September 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
lord knows you produce enough of it
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 19 September 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
took me years to realize the unctuous priest is the crooked cop in Sweet Smell of Success.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 September 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
Emile Meyer. He's pure slime in Sweet Smell of Success, so that threw me when I made the connection.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QT8r1VTBz6s/TaSwx6FJXEI/AAAAAAAAGK4/MCPA9DGkzIQ/s1600/EmileMeyer-SweetSmell.jpg
― clemenza, Friday, 19 September 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
Haven't seen either Killing or PoG, which to watch first?
― calstars, Friday, 19 September 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link