Stanley Kubrick: Classic or Dud?

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, February 14, 2012 4:41 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya, he is a pretty active, if wily and amoral, guy

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.

You gotta read the Kubrick letter (also on that site)

he doesnt seem to really like ENJOY anything

http://24.media.tumblr.com/yaHE2X1pUqbj7nfdhWixUHUYo1_500.jpg

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.

well, what an original and daring opinion.

Made me cringe too. But when a genius ventures outside his field of expertise, I'm inclined to cut him/her some slack.

I have my doubts but if the math checks out I'm willing to believe he's right

He should ID the cheap wins and tough losses.

barry lyndon >>>> barry bonds

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.

Barry Lyndon>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Barry Zito.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/barry_lyons_autograph.jpg

Best Power/Speed Number: The Killing.

No way, this is Killer's Kiss in a walk.

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.)

look, even Kubrick admitted that Lolita was kind of stunted without explicit eroticism.

wasn't kubrick from the bronx?

yes

and I don't give a shit what Bill James thinks about anything but baseball, but certainly The Shining is pretentious crap.

yeah google seems to think he was a yankees fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL2MBYKTeA0

certainly The Shining is pretentious crap.

SCARY pretentious crap

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

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20096061-248/samsung-cites-kubrick-film-in-apple-patent-spat/

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/

'lolita' the book doesn't really have much explicit eroticism!

^^^there's next to none iirc

But you would agree that a film of it, made censorship-free, would have more than S.K.'s?

Has anyone seen the Adrian Lyne one? I haven't, so I really can't say.

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.

It was surprisingly good coming from Adrian Lyne, or so I thought at the time.

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.

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

I wish there was something like that for the Shining

...from the guy in dog outfit

I understand Shelly Duvall's set diary has been sealed until 2050.

Modine book is well worth riffling through, the text too.

His one from the new Batman movie, less essential

The one from Cutthroat Island, an epic.

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

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.

anyone heard of these scripts b4?

http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/entertainment-one-to-produce-tv-movie-mini-based-on-stanley-kubrick-scripts/

nope!

im sure stanley would be pysched to hear his scripts were being turned into tv movies!!

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

ya

Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective http://designyoutrust.com/2012/08/stanley-kubrick-one-point-perspective-amazing-video-montage-celebrating-the-symetric-shots/

(neat little video showing interpolation and contrast of his camerawork)

Ha, cool.

http://peopleandchairs.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/peter-sellers-11.jpg

I'd really like to see this L.A. museum show on Kubrick.