Howard Hampton finds "certain endearing and disconcerting affinities" between Strangelove and the cuddly Robert Montgomery comedy (also recently released on CC) Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
http://www.artforum.com/film/id=61920
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 July 2016 15:27 (seven years ago) link
Might actually get to see Barry Lyndon
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 July 2016 10:54 (seven years ago) link
BFI are doing a weekend of screenings in their big screen, or might see it at the ICA next week.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 July 2016 10:55 (seven years ago) link
I think Barry Lyndon is probably my 2nd fave Kubrick next to Paths Of Glory.
― calzino, Saturday, 30 July 2016 11:02 (seven years ago) link
Paths of Glory is the only Kubrick I've seen and like
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 July 2016 11:03 (seven years ago) link
kirk douglas would have made for an interestingly pissed off dave bowman
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 1 August 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
i saw it on dvd, on my PC, some years back, and thought it was amazing. warmed to it more than 2001 and the shining (though my favourite kubrick is still fear and desire).
― StillAdvance, Monday, 1 August 2016 10:31 (seven years ago) link
My favorite Kubrick is some photo that appeared in the June 1948 issue of LOOK. It was all downhill for him after that.
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Monday, 1 August 2016 12:27 (seven years ago) link
lol F&D
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 August 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link
SK's 1947 subway photo feature
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/subway-riding-in-the-1940s-with-stanley-kubrick/
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 September 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
thx morbs - love this one
https://ephemeralnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/kubrickmcnyx2011-4-11107-125.jpg?w=900&h=930
― the devastation is very important to me (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 September 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
looks like Clockwork Orange tramp lyin' there
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 September 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
so many questions
― the devastation is very important to me (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 September 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
Awesome photo.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 23 September 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
That blog and the images derive from the incredible MCNY archive of Kubrick's assignments for Look - 129 assignments, 15 000 images, most unpublished.http://collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/Stanley%20Kubrick/http://collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/4/d/3/f/M3Y59725.jpg
― MatthewK, Friday, 23 September 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
http://collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/3/3/7/7/M3Y32044.jpg
― MatthewK, Friday, 23 September 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
http://collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/8/f/f/c/M3Y32193.jpg
― MatthewK, Friday, 23 September 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link
http://collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/8/a/2/8/M3Y5603.jpg
― MatthewK, Friday, 23 September 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
http://collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/1/f/c/a/M3Y32234.jpg
― MatthewK, Friday, 23 September 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
http://collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/c/b/b/f/M3Y32283.jpg
― MatthewK, Friday, 23 September 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
http://collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/a/7/d/a/MNY294121.jpg
― MatthewK, Saturday, 24 September 2016 03:27 (seven years ago) link
idnk kubrick invented instagram
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 24 September 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Wow at that Hitchcock pic - have long wondered if Stanley had ever met Alfred - wonder if they ever met again. I get the impression that Kubrick was not especially a Hitchcock fan, but they sometimes seem quite alike.
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 24 September 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
Finally got to see Barry Lyndon in a cinema a few months back -- and really enjoyed its stately melancholy. Wrote this to try and explore why -- not really a review, just some stuff that struck me…
― mark s, Saturday, 24 September 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
I totally agree about it never feeling like a "long movie", it is such an enjoyable oddysee that doesn't ever feel like more than 90 mins at all.
― calzino, Saturday, 24 September 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
xp I liked your take Mark - that's me #1 in the comments section!
― MatthewK, Saturday, 24 September 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-good-man-stanley/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 3 November 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
What's the best book about Kubrick? I'd like to read mostly about the life, interested in the films as well of course but not in a dense theory-heavy way.
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 10:59 (seven years ago) link
He is not the subject, but he makes a great cameo, well more than that, in the excellent Jim Thompson bio Savage Art, by Jon Polito.
Finally got to see /Barry Lyndon/ in a cinema a few months back -- and really enjoyed its stately melancholy. Wrote this🔗 to try and explore why -- not really a review, just some stuff that struck me…
― Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 11:55 (seven years ago) link
Sorry, the author of Savage Art is Robert Polito.
― Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 11:57 (seven years ago) link
But Jon Polito is still missed. Fly on, Brother Shamus.
― Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:02 (seven years ago) link
Hm, clicking on that link doesn't seem to work in Zing.
― Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:03 (seven years ago) link
Duh, I tried to click on the link in my quote, not in Mark's original post. Never mind.
― Stars on 45, Where Are You? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:05 (seven years ago) link
There isn't an entirely satisfactory Kubrick biography. Alexander Walker's book (in its various revisions) is the closest thing there is to an authorised biography, in that Walker knew Kubrick, and was given some access and assistance by SK. Both the Vincent Lobrutto and John Baxter biographies are 'unofficial' and feature different secondary sources, with varying degrees of insight and relevance. None of them are especially 'theory heavy'.
― Darcy Sarto (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:26 (seven years ago) link
there is a great 1966 interview on youtube w Kubrick, but I get the feeling he wasn't the type of guy who would have been interested in a lengthy sit-down for an auto/bio, or even write a memoir. As I am in the cult, I like that about him
― Dominique, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
The three interviews w/ Kubrick conducted by Michel Ciment around Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and the Shining are almost certainly the best print interviews SK ever gave - - you can find them here:
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.html
― Darcy Sarto (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
not quite what you asked for, but if you haven't seen it already jon ronson's documentary stanley kubrick's boxes is a pretty good look behind the curtain, and it seems to be available in its entirety on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/78314194
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0iX2mpXUAAsVw4.jpg
― Darcy Sarto (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 29 December 2016 07:36 (seven years ago) link
watched barry lyndon for the first time at the weekend. i was completely floored by it. one of the best things i've ever seen. dunno if it's deliberate, but even though it was quite moving and intense especially in the second act, i have to say i found a lot of had real comic quality. like the tiny and ridiculous battles, a lot of it felt like it was lightly skewering pomposity, even with the narrator and the "interval" bit in the middle. prior to even seeing the "interval" part i also thought it seemed like it was meant to resemble a play. the music throughout was amazing also.
the other thing i thought at the end is that the cook the thief his wife and her lover felt very inspired by this. maybe the cinematography as painting feeling, maybe also the main musical motifs have a similarly grandiose feeling.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
dunno if it's deliberate, but even though it was quite moving and intense especially in the second act
nah that Kubrick alwayd did things by accident
i quit the Thackeray book about 50 pp in bcz it was too overtly a comedy for me.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 15:41 (seven years ago) link
less questioning him than wondering if i'd misinterpreted it or found humour that was never supposed to be there.
i found it hilarious at times. like another ilxor said on twitter they'd annoyed friends by laughing at ostensibly unfunny parts and that was probably what i was doing. the quick cut from bullingdon having his tantrum to him caning bullingdon in his study, and also the scene where lyndon loses it and punches the head off bullingdon, i was actually in tears laughing, it was so over-wrought.
i'd kind of like to read the thackeray book after watching it.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
i think Eyes Wide Shut is pretty funny in similar ways, and The Shining as well. he was definitely mining some unique form of humor after Dr. Strangelove.
― ryan, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
Yes, definitely - I think it's partly a result of him living/shooting in the UK and often working with great British comic character actors like Leonard Rossiter or Patrick Magee.
― Bongo Herbert (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
the music takes it up a notch. I need to watch it again.
― ogmor, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link
i think he cast them once he knew what he wanted to do (tho did Magee ever ham it up like he did in ACO? seems the singular result of maybe 70 takes). xp
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link
Magee also gives a pretty...florid...performance in Tales from the Crypt, and probably some of the other lower rent flicks he appeared in, though yeah, I think it's well known that SK generally favoured the larger than life takes out of the many he shot (definitely true w/ Nicholson in The Shining).
― Bongo Herbert (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
Magee does make a great show of being the blindest of the blind guys in that Crypt ep, yeah.
― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
not to mention the first half of Full Metal Jacket is some of the funniest shit ever
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Just ask Mary Jane Rottencrotch.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
some amazing stuff in the CC supps for Barry Lyndon, ie the editor on the limits of having ten takes for each line of an actor's dialogue, and the fact that some of the costumes were ACTUAL 18th-century waistcoats, military uniforms, etc.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link