Ha, cool.
― How's My Modding? Call 1-800-SBU-RSELF (WmC), Sunday, 2 September 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://peopleandchairs.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/peter-sellers-11.jpg
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 November 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
I'd really like to see this L.A. museum show on Kubrick.
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Sunday, 4 November 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
Is that Clare Quilty?
2001 on IFC tomorrow.
― 50 Skidillion Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 November 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
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
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 November 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
xp: He had a kind of beautiful Japanese, Oriental philosophy of life.
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Sunday, 4 November 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
nice find, Morbs.
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Sunday, 4 November 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
Ebiri's discussion of Barry Lyndon at the end of his Cinephiliacs podcast was pretty good.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 4 November 2012 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
link?
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 4 November 2012 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thecinephiliacs.net
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 4 November 2012 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thecinephiliacs.net/2012/09/episode-5-bilge-ebiri-barry-lyndon.html
― Gukbe, Sunday, 4 November 2012 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
oh he got there
Good podcast so far... Been annoyed with film discussion podcast scene for awhile.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 4 November 2012 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 4 November 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/steven-spielberg-developing-stanley-kubricks-dream-project-napolean-as-tv-miniseries-20130303
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 3 March 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5vintkjkraw/UTZ5ofs-kNI/AAAAAAAAxpg/g9Hs9PMsWpo/s1600/2001+66.jpg
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 March 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
sick!
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 7 March 2013 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
jack kirby's 2001 comix are great
― The Mini-Mamas and the Mini-Papas (latebloomer), Thursday, 7 March 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
I need that one
The Blade Runner and Alien comic adaptations are also pretty sweet
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
has that 2001 comic ever been reissued?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 7 March 2013 06:54 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 7 March 2013 06:57 (eleven years ago) link
entire thing is here
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 March 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
What do you all think about Spielberg producing Kubrick's Napoleon screenplay?
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 8 March 2013 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
out of sight out of mind
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
Thank you for posting that 2001 comic, it is AMAZING!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if anyone has the 2001 ongoing comic scanned and uploaded...
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
What do you all think about Spielberg producing
i feel bad about however that sentence ends ever
― ≪江南Style≫ (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 March 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, March 8, 2013 9:52 AM (17 minutes ago)
I've been halfheartedly looking for it for years, no luck yet.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― ryan, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
After another quick look -- here's 2001 #1http://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/jack-kirbys-2001-a-space-odyssey-first-issue/
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
that was probably the greatest leap of emotions between two posts ever ty shakey
― arby's, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
― ≪江南Style≫ (Autumn Almanac), Friday, March 8, 2013 10:59 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
where's the rong thread
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think any of us have read SK's script, so who can say, aside from kneejerk SS haters?
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Gukbe, Friday, 8 March 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 8 March 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Isn't the script also in that massive Napoleon book?
― Gukbe, Friday, 8 March 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
we've collectively reassessed AI and determined it to be a masterpiece. catch up. post
i don't have the napoleon book, i just remember reading a pdf of the thing a decade or so ago...i should get the book, i guess! man, aside from the first 20 minutes or so, i loathed AI. i suppose i should give it another go, i know plenty of people rep for it.
― tylerw, Friday, 8 March 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
I hate it fwiw
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
like it or hate it, AI was faithful to Kubrick's story treatment.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah my issues with it are independent of the Spielberg vs. Kubrick brouhaha
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
its kinda hard to say how faithful kubrick would have been to his own treatment tho
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
Cool, i didn't read the story treatment, i watched the movie.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
spielberg shld hire Miklós Jancsó to direct the napoleon script
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
ai was boring and cruel in the way kubrick is prone to but without his enigmatic stateliness
― plax (ico), Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
enigmatic stateliness replaced by Spielberg's sweaty hamfists
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
nope
― Gukbe, Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
for the umpteenth fucking time, K gave the project to him, saying he was better for it.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 March 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
yeah we've all done this too many times
― Gukbe, Saturday, 9 March 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link