The Shining

and yes: are the ghosts real? are they hallucinations? are they metaphors?whichever is most plausible to you the fundamental explanation is always the same: sometimes, when something happens, it leaves a trace of itself behind. i think a lot of things happened right here, in this very hotel/household/country, over the years. and not all of em was good.

so on sundays, i work as a projectionist for both a matinee and an evening show, between which the 90-year-old movie theater is cleared and locked and the rest of the staff leaves and i hang out, alone, for a couple hours in the empty theater before the night staff arrives, with the projector and the sound system and the ah blu-ray player still online because i've been told not to shut them down until we close for the night, and, uh, don't tell anyone, but today, i

rip

dad? do you like this hotel?

difficult listening hour on this subject years upthread otm

ran a local movie this morning for some middle schoolers on a field trip, about an arrogant haole-boy champion surfer who wipes out during a competition in waikiki and warps to 1911, where he's rescued by and befriends duke kahanamoku and in becoming one of duke's crew (under the name "ghost") learns the true meaning of surfing. at the end, back in the present against his will, he visits the waikiki restaurant duke's, where his pov gives the movie its final shot: a slow dolly in on a framed b&w photograph of duke and buddies standing with monogrammed surfboards, GHOST gazing out alongside them. haha

this is insane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AupAFblRwgY
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Is this something I should watch using one of those virtual reality headgear things?

i didn't! i also didn't watch for more than five minutes but skip around!

whoa

Just found this on the street!

http://i.imgur.com/UtURBFW.jpg

Didn't like Room 237 quite as much the second time. There was one guy--his theory was vaguer than the others, and he had a habit of pausing and then laughing at his own commentary (the guy with a son who was out of work)--who started to get on my nerves. The most compelling theory to me is the Native American one, which I notice is proposed in this thread's very first post.

native american thing is compelling cuz it's just a theme in the movie like any other theme in any other movie. i don't think it's the center but it's there and it harmonizes w other themes. the other theories are occult+totalizing and (at least in the case of the moon landing) seem to involve the movie Actually being about something that has nothing to do w what it's pretending to be about, which is a less impressive concept to me than, yknow, a successful piece of art.

Just found this on the street!

🗻

i passed Garrett Brown, inventor of the Steadicam, on his way into the Linc Ctr cinema last night. (ie he ran behind Danny in the maze)

no one tell clemenza

(ie he ran behind Danny in the maze)

wearing, never forget, danny-shoes

you can still see The Shining in 35mm on NYE in NYC.

http://www.filmlinc.org/series/going-steadi-40-years-of-steadicam/#films

It is, of course, almost the worst film in that series.

Xanadu must be much better than I've been led to believe.

Didn't like Room 237 quite as much the second time. There was one guy--his theory was vaguer than the others, and he had a habit of pausing and then laughing at his own commentary (the guy with a son who was out of work)--who started to get on my nerves.

― clemenza, Sunday, December 18, 2016 12:45 PM (eight hours ago)

Nah, that guy is awesome. His theories on the syncs, the wipes, the dissolves, and the forwards and backwards theory was incredibly compelling. Plus the Playgirl mag.

The one who annoyed me was the architect (?) who claimed to have been mind-blown by the layout of the Overlook the first time she saw the film. Not because she didn't have something interesting to say, but rather because I sincerely doubt that even someone who is fascinated by architecture would notice a minor structural oddity on a first viewing.

The masterstroke in this is when the babe in the bathtub becomes sick grandma. Nothing is more frightening to the male psyche than the realization that all flesh is mortal.

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=434928

? I thought that might have been the professor in the film, but it's not...The course he teaches is Bio137!

it's the kid in The Shining

stephen king: listen this hotel is fucked up
stanley kubrick: indeed, if these walls could talk, we walk around looking the other way from the suffering, death and horror that takes root in our lives, the foundations our society is built upon
stephen king: NO THE HOTEL IS EVIL

— i'm camille! (@_girltype) December 6, 2017

hee

still think Jack & co. would have fared better at a la Quinta or Best Western

“All the best people”

I remember one of the HS friends i saw it with opening night called Barry Nelson (Ullman) "Reagan."

2 20s and 2 10s
I was afraid
They’d be there til
next April

and all the irreparable harm it's caused me.

They’d be there
Til next April

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVlXbS0SNqk

Still want this poster.

https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/wp-content/uploads/purgatory-jared-lyon.png

exposing the eeriness inherent in hotels

New Pogo track is based on The Shining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8pptpmkHXg

That footage from the Japanese paranormal investigations TV show crew filming Elstree and interviewing Vivian and Stanley (on the phone) is a delight from start to finish, including the soundless car journey through West London and up to Borehamwood.

The YouTube comments are almost entirely highly positive, although I guess probably consist mainly of middle aged men remarking on how captivating watching 20 year old Vivian talk is. Well, fair enough I'spose.

Link?

MareSnest links it above.

we were watching this tnite for halloween and it's amazing how fresh + relevant it feels today maybe more than ever

especially wild when you recall how reviled it was on release

when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind

i need to watch this again soon

Say someone burns toast...

Someone burns toast.

after I picked up a copy on DVD recently so I can make mk2 watch it, someone pointed me to this interesting analysis re the trike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvXaubxzrE&feature=youtu.be

never noticed these things before, but then I don't when watching a film.
I just watch it, and then move on, but this film has a lot of subtle on screen clues as to whats going on.
Was Stanley really this subtle, or, just careless re the trike ?

video isn't working can u give another link

ooops, sorry.

https://youtu.be/xNvXaubxzrE

I still revile it.

I mean, as its director's worst post-Fear and Desire film goes, it's still pretty in-te-res-ting.