Annoying/amusing anachronism, hearing Peter Ustinov refer to Woody Strode as "the Negro" in that one scene. Was that the result of circa-1959 political correctness on the screenwriters' part? or did they think that calling him "the Ethiopian" or "the dark-skinned one" or something similar be too unclear for audiences?
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 18 August 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3zzgX6UUNQ
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 August 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't realize it before that clip but jack nicholson would have made an awesome wolverine.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 18 August 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.ce.cn/entertainment/photo/200704/07/W020070407526461648806.jpg
― Øystein, Friday, 19 August 2011 07:23 (twelve years ago) link
A lengthy, rewarding Barry Lyndon analysis:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2011/10/the-conversations-barry-lyndon/
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
i recently watched the new blu-ray of Barry Lyndon and it's as great as ever. for me at least, it's an overwhelmingly dark movie, but oh so beautiful. i just wonder if that beauty is supposed to be vacant and as flat as a painting or something cosmically or spiritually redeeming.
― ryan, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
slant magazine article is great, thanks for posting
― tylerw, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
i do like the reading of the final duel in that piece. it always felt almost like a joke. it's practically the first redeeming thing Barry does, and then he pays for it in the most brutal fashion.
― ryan, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
His love for his son, as the Slant authors suggest, is redeeming, and then his mercy toward the creepy stepson is unrewarded.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
oh yes i forgot about that. actually, i've always found that relationship hard to figure out. i wonder if it's Barry genuinely loving someone or more like a mini-Me kinda situation. again, i guess it straddles that line like so much else in the movie. I really hope this makes a showing in the upcoming Sight and Sound poll because for me it's clearly Kubrick's best, most moving, most beautiful movie.
― ryan, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
i love this movie
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
I really came around on Barry Lyndon, to a degree that I don't very often with films. Somewhere between a year or two ago, on another thread--a Best Picture of '75 poll, I think--I said that even though I liked Barry Lyndon, I probably would have placed it fifth among the five nominees that year. (Cuckoo's Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, and Nashville.) I've watched it a couple more times since, and I'd now put it second or third. Nashville's still my #1; it's hard for me to compare Barry to Jaws, but one of those two would be next. When I did a countdown of my 50 favorite films on Facebook a few months ago, I had Barry Lyndon on the list. The one that's gone down in my estimation is Dog Day, which I watched again a couple of months ago. Great for the first half, then I think it starts to meander.
― clemenza, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
I'd like to see your list, clemenza.
― ryan, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
It's an open group, Ryan, so give this a try: https://www.facebook.com/groups/200962099931650/. If that doesn't work, send me note through ILX mail and I'll get it to you.
― clemenza, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
it worked. thanks!
― ryan, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
Damn, i gotta read that article sometime.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Really love that movie, btw. I love how long and drawn out it is. That is probably why I also think "2001" is the greatest film ever made.
The first time I saw it, it brought "A Clockwork Orange" to mind, what with the main theme, which really sounds similar in some ways to the ACO theme. And the bit with the thieves that rob him sort of made me think of something from that as well. Maybe "Barry Lyndon" is what happens to Alex after he is cured.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
"I love the use of the color blue by the artist."
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
I watched this for the first time last year in 35mm and it wast just such a treat. thanks for the article
― dayo, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
Saw a 70mm print of 2001 at the Lightbox tonight. As obscure as ever to me--tonight I started thinking that it might be the work of someone who felt quite overwhelmed by the '60s--but I did notice in the credits that there's a Glenn Beck in the film. He plays an astronaut. Hibernating or not, I'm not sure.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
Rich or poor, they are all equal now.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Can anybody recommend some online 2001 writing, specifically technical aspects/the making of/etc.? Started showing a roommate this and while she fell asleep halfway through, for me it was bliss and gorgeousness like always. Probably the most beautiful film, at the very least image-wise, that I have ever seen. The compositing in the moon-landing sequences is flawless and breathtaking, giving a tremendous sense of scale to every element in the scene. Often in this film there will be little windows or ledges with tiny people walking around on them, and you hardly notice it at first, it's such a genius technique. There's always so much bombast and BIG PRETTY PICTURES in his films but he's equally adept at putting in little understated touches that help give everything more life. And clearly he is aware of his powers; in this film is contained not only the 'ultimate psychedelic trip' in the starfield light show, but quite possibly the most boring and comedically dry military briefing ever shot.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
If they ever make a Kubrick Biopic I reckon Stanley Townsend is the man.
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/servlet/file/store5/item116701/version1/fileservice28/116701_28_preview.jpg
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
XP Piers Bizony wrote a book that's pretty great iirc
http://www.amazon.co.uk/2001-Filming-Future-Piers-Bizony/dp/1854107062
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
I believe Douglas Trumbull is getting his special Oscar Saturday night btw
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
Nice. Between 2001 and Blade Runner, he's responsible for a whole lot of the look of cinematic sci-fi.
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
and lately, The Tree of Life
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
Can anybody recommend some online 2001 writing, specifically technical aspects/the making of/etc.?
Cinefex devoted an entire issue to 2001... worth tracking down a copy.
Also,
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PIZEzX7yL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
^Yes, that book is terrific!
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
This is pretty cool, someone wrote software to attempt to 'unwrap' the images used in the stargate sequence:
http://seriss.com/people/erco/2001/
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
i want to EAT this bluray
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
(barry lyndon)
god it's gorge.
have you masked the screen properly w/ black tape?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
Yah just got the Barry Lyndon blu at a big box store for $8. Psyched to watch it again! Watched on dvd a few weeks ago. I can watch it weekly.
― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
been keen on seeing it again after watching Mysteries of Lisbon. not been able to get past the aspect ratio thing, though i obviously should.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
I recently watched Barry Lyndon on DVD. The sense of passivity and an all-pervasive void both surrounding and expressing the characters was just as strong as in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which felt very strange, but not very engaging. Kubrick must have had a strong misanthropic streak.
― Cosy Moments (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
I've never understood that conclusion.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
the characters seemed pretty sympathetic and human in Barry Lyndon, at least more so than in Eyes Wide Shut.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
felt bad for Baz by the end of it
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
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lol, i'm not sure if that would even work. (i've done it several times shooting movies...) it's not clear if there is extraneous information or missing stuff from the top and bottoms
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
'barry lyndon' is incredibly warm and sad, and one of his 2-3 best.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
sad I can see, warm not so much
― Cosy Moments (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
I am searching for screens of barry lyndon right now
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
I love that the whole movie is pushed a stop, why, because the candle light scenes needed to be pushed a stop
considering kubrick's obsession with photography, stills from his movies are always going to be meticulously composed.
― Cosy Moments (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
the scene where his son dies and the last scene are both pretty devastating to me.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
ya, it is really not cold and emotionless, like at all
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
ppl always think that about movies where the lead isnt 100% likeable