Also, it's funny.
― Popture, Sunday, 9 June 2013 08:30 (eleven years ago) link
my fav Kubrick. h8ers to the left.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 9 June 2013 08:35 (eleven years ago) link
there were funny moments but i mean
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 9 June 2013 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
The ShiningEyes Wide ShutBarry Lyndon
Those are my 3 Kubricks.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Sunday, 9 June 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
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'.
― Popture, Sunday, 9 June 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 9 June 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
sarabande is up there with yakkety sax for me as musical cues portending laughs.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 9 June 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://kubrickist.tumblr.com/post/53767113675
― 乒乓, Monday, 15 July 2013 06:13 (eleven years ago) link
cool.
― Nhex, Monday, 15 July 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
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
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 July 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
cool interview. I always love imagining what the Martin or Allen versions of EWS would be like.
― ryan, Friday, 26 July 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
also, a compiled list of films he liked
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/stanley-kubrick-cinephile
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 July 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
awesome piece, thanks for sharing
― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 July 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSWR2EnHEs
― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 July 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Orpheus in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 July 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
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)
― Z S, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
that's good to hear!
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
this is a neat book! out of print, too: http://www.scribd.com/doc/143395393/The-Making-of-Kubricks-2001
― Z S, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
J.Ro and James Naremore on the first 4 features:
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=34118
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
lol
― markers, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:10 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
thanks guys! ryan, sure, take it away from here
― markers, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:31 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
both those biogs pretty bore
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:51 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
ja
― caek, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 15:57 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
i've been to the archive. it's cool.
― caek, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:39 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Editing Barry Lyndon: http://m.imgur.com/a/dHY9q
― calstars, Monday, 11 August 2014 00:55 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
It's Possible
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 September 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link