Stanley Kubrick: Classic or Dud?

for the umpteenth fucking time, K gave the project to him, saying he was better for it.

yeah we've all done this too many times

Retrospective at the ifc center in NYC later this month

can anyone tell me what the album cover referenced here is?
http://www.ifccenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/Mar8PROMO1-662x1024.jpg

kraftwerk's radioactivity

(it's in the air for you and me)

http://www.nfb.ca/film/universe/

Universe, by Roman Kroitor & Colin Low
1960
28 min 53 s

This is the Canada Film Board documentary that 'inspired' 2001. Kubrick brought over a number of people that worked on this, including the voice of HAL 9000 Douglas Rain, who appears here as narrator! Great film!

oh for fuck's sake i knew that and couldn't place it. thanks.

now to go buy and wear it with impunity

Awesome link Adam, thank you

http://filmmakeriq.com/2011/08/30-amazing-stanley-kubrick-cinemagraphs/

just sat through barry lyndon. we both went with a very open mind, expecting to enjoy it (or at least appreciate it), but jesus christ

i think now that 2001 ends with bowman going into that baroque room, going 'oh fuck i'm in barry lyndon' and just dying of boredom

lol

tsk tsk, Rev Runt.

Barry Lyndon is possibly favourite Kubrick. Didn't you think it was funny?

It's among his most profound statements on the human condition. also O'Neal is perfect for it.

Also, it's funny.

my fav Kubrick. h8ers to the left.

there were funny moments but i mean

The Shining
Eyes Wide Shut
Barry Lyndon

Those are my 3 Kubricks.

It doesn't have the tempo we normally associate with comedy but it's pretty hilarious. The opening is classic gag... 'and there's no doubt his father would have become' *gunshot* 'had he not been killed in a duel'. The intermission title card is something like 'The downfall of Barry Lyndon' and it cuts to his wedding. Then there's the Irish guy's idea of nobility, which basically consists of wearing an eye patch and looking haughty. Or the Christopher Guest-eque joke of a hapless Lyndon looking at art and saying 'I like the use of the colour blue'. Or when he beds the farm girl and you see him riding off with a satisfied grin on his face and the narrator wryly observes she's been 'stormed many times before'.

Also that great line at the end, "good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now." Also when he gets robbed on the road in the most gentlemanly way possible.

Barry Lyndon is awesome!

sarabande is up there with yakkety sax for me as musical cues portending laughs.

http://kubrickist.tumblr.com/post/53767113675

cool.

85th birthday. Bro-in-law/producer Jan Harlan on Woody Allen as a projected lead for EWS, and SK's viewing habits:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/interviews/right-hand-man-jan-harlan-stanley-kubrick

cool interview. I always love imagining what the Martin or Allen versions of EWS would be like.

also, a compiled list of films he liked

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/stanley-kubrick-cinephile

awesome piece, thanks for sharing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSWR2EnHEs

Thanks for those. Friend of mine who is also a friend of Alex in NYC raved about that LA exhibit. Interesting about the Spanish movies he mentions. Should be noted that the producer of both Cría Cuervos and The Spirit of the Beehive along with many other films, Elías Querejeta, passed away earlier this month at aged 78. Also didn't know anyone else has seen, let alone liked, The Red Squirrel but me.

teehee:

Gelmis: 2001 took about three years to make - six months of preparation, four and a half months of working with the actors, and a year and a half of shooting special effects. How much time will Napoleon take out of your life?

Kubrick: Considerably less. We hope to begin the actual production work by the winter of 1969, and the exterior shooting - battles, location shots, etc. -- should be completed within two or three months. After that, the studio work shouldn't take more than another three or four months.

(from a 1969 interview with Kubrick)

that's good to hear!

can't wait.
the book from whence that interview came -- the director as superstar -- is a great glimpse of the state of cinema in the late 60s.

this is a neat book! out of print, too: http://www.scribd.com/doc/143395393/The-Making-of-Kubricks-2001

J.Ro and James Naremore on the first 4 features:

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=34118

http://paulnahm.blogspot.com/2010/06/playboy-interview-wstanley-kubrick-in.html

Killer's Kiss actress Irene Kane aka Chris Chase RIP

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/irene-kane-kubrick-actress-chris-chase-652790

http://vimeo.com/78314194

is there a good biography of this guy?

Let me Amazon that for you

Stanley Kubrick: A Biography by Vincent LoBrutto gets an average 3½ stars in reader reviews
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography by John Baxter gets an average 4 stars in reader reviews

Therefore you should read John Baxter's biography

lol

if anyone has an interest in kubrick and can answer my question, i'd appreciate that

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.

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.

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.

thanks guys! ryan, sure, take it away from here

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.

both those biogs pretty bore