the Humphrey Cobb novel of Paths ends with the execution, but I think Kubrick and Harris both agreed the audience had to get *some* moral relief (eg Gen Mireau punished in some form for his shoot-our-troops order).
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 March 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
It's amusing to see Emile Meyer, who played the crooked cop in Sweet Smell of Success ("Sidney, come over here so I can chastise you!"), play the priest.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 March 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
Barry Lyndon is great, everyone talks about how beautiful and painterly it is (it is) but until I saw it again relatively recent I forgot about all the zooms in the movie. it felt like a comedy in a theater
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link
Spartacus seems like a classic 1960s spectacle film
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
I like it better than I tend to like these things.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
complete with an overture and intermission!
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link
The Brits (Olivier, Ustinov, Laughton) are having great fun, and in life they loathed each other.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
yes, mastah
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link
I did like seeing the men’s bodies in the baths
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link
the oysters vs snails interlude made me chuckle
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:33 (four years ago) link
it's even funnier when you revel in the Anthony Hopkins dubbing of Olivier
(that scene was restored in the '90s)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
I know Kubrick distanced himself from it, and as much of a 60s hollywood production as it was, I liked it. want to see Paths of Glory again
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 April 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
Never managed to get through it myself.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
Kubrick knew how to handle Roman maniples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgywD3XJaWU
Shame he never teamed up with Bondarchuk's Red Army for his Napoleon biopic.
― speaking moistly (Sanpaku), Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
dud
― fuck it (Left), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
show your working
― imago, Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
no i’m good thanks
― fuck it (Left), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
That Spartacus battle scene was one of the "And a Cast of Thousands!" kind of scenes, where it cost so freaking much to get it onto film that they were never going to reduce it to a fast-paced fifteen seconds of action.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
yes, and that clip is just the beginning of the battle sequence
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 April 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
fartacus
― fuck it (Left), Friday, 1 May 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
sorry ignore
― fuck it (Left), Friday, 1 May 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
I also recite da classics
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 May 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link
have been rewatching Kubrick’s films in order. The Killing, Paths of Glory, Spartacus and Lolita are all so different
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 May 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
love the edgelord first post on this topic
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 16 May 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
Did you catch the first two? Killer's Kiss is very good imo.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Saturday, 16 May 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
don’t see killer’s kiss on any of my subscriptions but fear and desire is on kanopy, I will watch it
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 May 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link
It's not great apart from the sense of unreality and detachment, cool to see this in embryonic form. I love that he borrowed money from his uncle to make it and expected it to make his investment back as a Saturday afternoon feature.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 16 May 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
edgelord first post right not wrong
― mark s, Saturday, 16 May 2020 12:26 (three years ago) link
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 May 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link
yes, through the SF library. when I signed up they were giving access to 8 films a month, but they have increased the number over time, it’s now 15/month
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 May 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
Wow!
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 May 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
watched Fear and Desire, it was ok. Paul Mazursky's first film role!
― Dan S, Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:08 (three 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