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
The sense of passivity and an all-pervasive void
Redmond Barry is not passive! He goes out and gets what he thinks he wants after he's sonned by his beautiful cousin. As for the void, well, that's mortality.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
Barry Lyndon is kind of like a human interest version of Candide, to me
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:41 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ya, he is a pretty active, if wily and amoral, guy
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
i guess he might seem passive in the sense that he doesnt seem to really like ENJOY anything
Here's what I found about the aspect ratio:
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/05/leon-vitali-on-the-barry-lyndon-aspect-ratio-issue.html
Seems like they used the correct one, but there's conflicting information.
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
You gotta read the Kubrick letter (also on that site)
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
he doesnt seem to really like ENJOY anything
http://24.media.tumblr.com/yaHE2X1pUqbj7nfdhWixUHUYo1_500.jpg
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
Bill James: "I loved the first half of Kubrick's career, hated the second half. Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove...those are fantastic movies. Everything from 2001 on is pretentious crap. The worst is Barry Lyndon."
He tends to be a little more methodical evaluating baseball players.
― clemenza, Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
well, what an original and daring opinion.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
Made me cringe too. But when a genius ventures outside his field of expertise, I'm inclined to cut him/her some slack.
― clemenza, Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
I have my doubts but if the math checks out I'm willing to believe he's right
― iatee, Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
He should ID the cheap wins and tough losses.
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
barry lyndon >>>> barry bonds
― buzza, Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
Cheap win (overrated in its day): A Clockwork Orange. Tough loss (viewed more favorably now than upon release): Lolita. Best Power/Speed Number: The Killing.
― clemenza, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
Barry Lyndon>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Barry Zito.
― clemenza, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/barry_lyons_autograph.jpg
― buzza, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
Best Power/Speed Number: The Killing.
No way, this is Killer's Kiss in a walk.
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
I thought it was pretty good the one time I saw it. But The Killing's like a 40/40 season--for me, it zips along like nothing he ever did. (I seem to remember hearing or reading somewhere that Kubrick was a big Brooklyn Dodgers fan growing up, but I can't seem to find any corroboration.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
look, even Kubrick admitted that Lolita was kind of stunted without explicit eroticism.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 April 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
wasn't kubrick from the bronx?
― iatee, Saturday, 28 April 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
yes
and I don't give a shit what Bill James thinks about anything but baseball, but certainly The Shining is pretentious crap.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 April 2012 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
yeah google seems to think he was a yankees fan
― iatee, Saturday, 28 April 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL2MBYKTeA0
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 April 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
certainly The Shining is pretentious crap.
SCARY pretentious crap
― Number None, Saturday, 28 April 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
Samsung, trying to invalidate Apple's design patent on the iPad, is invoking 2001: A Space Odyssey to demonstrate that the iPad's aesthetics have been around since the 1960s
http://asset2.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/08/23/Screen_Shot_2011-08-23_at_9.35.48_AM_610x312.png
― Lee626, Saturday, 28 April 2012 07:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20096061-248/samsung-cites-kubrick-film-in-apple-patent-spat/
― Lee626, Saturday, 28 April 2012 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
I think I remember the seats still being made of whatever that fabric was, in the late '60s.
http://english.mashkulture.net/2012/04/26/stanley-kubricks-new-york-subway-photos/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
'lolita' the book doesn't really have much explicit eroticism!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
^^^there's next to none iirc
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
But you would agree that a film of it, made censorship-free, would have more than S.K.'s?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
Has anyone seen the Adrian Lyne one? I haven't, so I really can't say.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
made me lol:
Adrian Lyne (born 4 March 1941 in Peterborough, then in Northamptonshire, England) is an English filmmaker and producer. He is best known for directing films that focus on sexually charged characters and often uses natural light, a fog machine and other effects to create eroticized atmospheres.
― fit and working again, Monday, 30 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
It was surprisingly good coming from Adrian Lyne, or so I thought at the time.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
x-post: it almost certainly would have, but i don't know that that would have made it better. the eroticism in the book is mainly in the language VN uses, which would be very hard to translate into a film -- especially because it's inextricable from that weird, playful, completely idiosyncratic nabokovian humor. i think kubrick's 'lolita' nails the humor, at least, but i can't really fault him for not pulling off a completely faithful translation when i can't think of any filmmaker who could have.
tbh i've avoided the lyne thing because i hate 'fatal attraction' as much as any movie i've ever seen and the thought of what AL might do to 'lolita' makes me nauseous.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/full-metal-jacket-diary/id527085659?mt=8
"In 1985, Stanley Kubrick encouraged me to take photos and keep a journal while playing the lead role of Pvt. Joker on the set of FULL METAL JACKET. In 2005, I published a limited edition book of my photos and diary. This app is based on that book; enriched and reimagined as an interactive, audiovisual experience. I hope you enjoy it!" – Matthew Modine
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
I wish there was something like that for the Shining
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
...from the guy in dog outfit
― mythical mickey rourke jacket (latebloomer), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
I understand Shelly Duvall's set diary has been sealed until 2050.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 8 August 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
Modine book is well worth riffling through, the text too.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
His one from the new Batman movie, less essential
― your native bacon (mh), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
The one from Cutthroat Island, an epic.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
S.K. exhibit to LACMA
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/stanley-kubrick-retrospective-and-exhibition-coming-to-los-angeles-co-presented-by-lacma-the-academy
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 August 2012 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
Killer's Kiss is one weird looking movie. A lot of the shots start out looking like blue-screen work, but then a foreground character will walk into the background. I've got to wonder if it was a technical limitation or just incompetence that produced it.
― get you ass to mahs (abanana), Friday, 17 August 2012 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
anyone heard of these scripts b4?
http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/entertainment-one-to-produce-tv-movie-mini-based-on-stanley-kubrick-scripts/
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 August 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
nope!
― Hungry4Ass, Thursday, 30 August 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
im sure stanley would be pysched to hear his scripts were being turned into tv movies!!
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 30 August 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
After Stanley Kubrick
Christiane Kubrick had 42 wonderful years with her husband. But in the decade since his death, she has been beset by tragedy. For the first time, she talks about losing one daughter to cancer, another to Scientology – and why her uncle made films for Goebbels― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:01 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark
this is a great piece btw
― Hungry4Ass, Thursday, 30 August 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link