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
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.)