Stanley Kubrick: Classic or Dud?

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.

now to go buy and wear it with impunity

Awesome link Adam, thank you

http://filmmakeriq.com/2011/08/30-amazing-stanley-kubrick-cinemagraphs/

just sat through barry lyndon. we both went with a very open mind, expecting to enjoy it (or at least appreciate it), but jesus christ

i think now that 2001 ends with bowman going into that baroque room, going 'oh fuck i'm in barry lyndon' and just dying of boredom

lol

tsk tsk, Rev Runt.

Barry Lyndon is possibly favourite Kubrick. Didn't you think it was funny?

It's among his most profound statements on the human condition. also O'Neal is perfect for it.

Also, it's funny.

my fav Kubrick. h8ers to the left.

there were funny moments but i mean

The Shining
Eyes Wide Shut
Barry Lyndon

Those are my 3 Kubricks.

It doesn't have the tempo we normally associate with comedy but it's pretty hilarious. The opening is classic gag... 'and there's no doubt his father would have become' *gunshot* 'had he not been killed in a duel'. The intermission title card is something like 'The downfall of Barry Lyndon' and it cuts to his wedding. Then there's the Irish guy's idea of nobility, which basically consists of wearing an eye patch and looking haughty. Or the Christopher Guest-eque joke of a hapless Lyndon looking at art and saying 'I like the use of the colour blue'. Or when he beds the farm girl and you see him riding off with a satisfied grin on his face and the narrator wryly observes she's been 'stormed many times before'.

Also that great line at the end, "good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now." Also when he gets robbed on the road in the most gentlemanly way possible.

Barry Lyndon is awesome!

sarabande is up there with yakkety sax for me as musical cues portending laughs.

http://kubrickist.tumblr.com/post/53767113675

cool.

85th birthday. Bro-in-law/producer Jan Harlan on Woody Allen as a projected lead for EWS, and SK's viewing habits:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/interviews/right-hand-man-jan-harlan-stanley-kubrick

cool interview. I always love imagining what the Martin or Allen versions of EWS would be like.

also, a compiled list of films he liked

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/stanley-kubrick-cinephile

awesome piece, thanks for sharing