Stanley Kubrick: Classic or Dud?

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.

Is that Clare Quilty?

2001 on IFC tomorrow.

I'm with Bilge Ebiri here on O'Neal in Barry Lyndon:

I think O'Neal gives an excellent performance, and I would direct anyone who does not agree to the scene where he faces his dying son on the deathbed. O'Neal's performance is perfect -- at first, averting his eyes, avoiding eye-contact, and then facing his son, trying to lie to him, telling him that he's not going to die. Listen to the way he whispers his lines, and to the way his voice breaks as he does so. This kind of emoting without affecting is SO difficult, even for the finest actors, that I still have a hard time believing that he was acting in that scene. When he finally breaks up -- it's shattering, every time I watch it, and I've watched this scene many times. Also, note how well his delivery of the story of his heroics matches his earlier delivery of the same story. His intonations are the same, but this time he's got tears in his eyes, and he can't keep it up -- his voice breaks up and he falls apart. O'Neal portrays this deterioration so well that it's terrifying.

Likewise, in those scenes when Barry doesn't quite connect with the audience's emotion -- for instance, when he cries upon first seeing the Chevalier -- this is in fact not a problem with the performance but an intentional moment placed by Kubrick himself. Redmond's tears don't quite reach out to the audience, but let us not forget that the Narrator at this point acknowledges, "There's many a man who will not understand the cause of the burst of feeling which was now about to take place." Likewise, the Narrator discusses the "splendor" and "nobleness" of the Chevalier's appearance and manner, when all we see is a guy in an eyepatch eating eggs and reading a letter. And the scene is devoid of music, which is rare for the more emotional parts of this film. Perhaps Kubrick is acknowledging an inner life beneath his characters, allowing a moment of feeling that we cannot understand; perhaps, as Jean Renoir once advised, 'leaving one door open on his set'.

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0031.html

xp: He had a kind of beautiful Japanese, Oriental philosophy of life.

nice find, Morbs.

Ebiri's discussion of Barry Lyndon at the end of his Cinephiliacs podcast was pretty good.

link?

http://www.thecinephiliacs.net

http://www.thecinephiliacs.net/2012/09/episode-5-bilge-ebiri-barry-lyndon.html

oh he got there

Good podcast so far... Been annoyed with film discussion podcast scene for awhile.

I've pretty much given up on film podcasts but there's some good stuff on those Cinephiles ones. I'm not generally too bothered about "how did you become a critic?" stuff but there's some good stories and the Uhlich one has some real gems.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/steven-spielberg-developing-stanley-kubricks-dream-project-napolean-as-tv-miniseries-20130303

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5vintkjkraw/UTZ5ofs-kNI/AAAAAAAAxpg/g9Hs9PMsWpo/s1600/2001+66.jpg

sick!

jack kirby's 2001 comix are great

I need that one

The Blade Runner and Alien comic adaptations are also pretty sweet

has that 2001 comic ever been reissued?

nope (think there might be copyright issues involved) - panel above is from the large-size treasury adaptation of the movie, and then there about ten or so issues of the comic that 'continue' the story - the machine man character was spun-off from that into his own title

entire thing is here

What do you all think about Spielberg producing Kubrick's Napoleon screenplay?

out of sight out of mind

Thank you for posting that 2001 comic, it is AMAZING!

I wonder if anyone has the 2001 ongoing comic scanned and uploaded...

What do you all think about Spielberg producing

i feel bad about however that sentence ends ever

I wonder if anyone has the 2001 ongoing comic scanned and uploaded...

― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, March 8, 2013 9:52 AM (17 minutes ago)

I've been halfheartedly looking for it for years, no luck yet.

it'll be kinda gross if they try to sell it as a "Stanley Kubrick movie" when it won't be that even in the limited sense that A.I. was a kubrick movie. but otherwise, kinda looking forward to it!

After another quick look -- here's 2001 #1
http://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/jack-kirbys-2001-a-space-odyssey-first-issue/

that was probably the greatest leap of emotions between two posts ever ty shakey

i feel bad about however that sentence ends ever

― ≪江南Style≫ (Autumn Almanac), Friday, March 8, 2013 10:59 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

where's the rong thread

I don't think any of us have read SK's script, so who can say, aside from kneejerk SS haters?

I am more than enough of a history nerd to be excited about Spielberg producing a Napoleon mini-series. Even if they incorporate just a hint of Kubrick's sensibilities, I'm looking forward to it.

I don't think any of us have read SK's script, so who can say, aside from kneejerk SS haters?
actually the script is out there on the internet. anyway, i think this is good news -- if anyone can do it with the appropriate scope (and budget) it's probably spielberg.

I think a kneejerk reaction is fine for anybody who saw A.I. Also, if you gave the 2001 script to any director other than SK, the chances of the resulting film being a fraction as good as the real deal are super slim.