Stanley Kubrick: Classic or Dud?

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.

Isn't the script also in that massive Napoleon book?

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.

I hate it fwiw

like it or hate it, AI was faithful to Kubrick's story treatment.

yeah my issues with it are independent of the Spielberg vs. Kubrick brouhaha

its kinda hard to say how faithful kubrick would have been to his own treatment tho

Cool, i didn't read the story treatment, i watched the movie.

spielberg shld hire Miklós Jancsó to direct the napoleon script

ai was boring and cruel in the way kubrick is prone to but without his enigmatic stateliness

enigmatic stateliness replaced by Spielberg's sweaty hamfists

nope

for the umpteenth fucking time, K gave the project to him, saying he was better for it.

yeah we've all done this too many times

Retrospective at the ifc center in NYC later this month

can anyone tell me what the album cover referenced here is?
http://www.ifccenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/Mar8PROMO1-662x1024.jpg

kraftwerk's radioactivity

(it's in the air for you and me)

http://www.nfb.ca/film/universe/

Universe, by Roman Kroitor & Colin Low
1960
28 min 53 s

This is the Canada Film Board documentary that 'inspired' 2001. Kubrick brought over a number of people that worked on this, including the voice of HAL 9000 Douglas Rain, who appears here as narrator! Great film!

oh for fuck's sake i knew that and couldn't place it. thanks.