The Shining

Stoked because that's where he got his Shining footage too?

also tell him that perfect, hi def ripped copies are all over the internet

you're blowing minds there don

seeing the shining in theaters tonight, bringing a notebook and my tinfoil hat

you're blowing minds there don

You're so much smarter than me, and you know, connected because you have a producer bro on "Room 237." Sorry, I forgot.

What is that moon city thing from?

Now got to watch the film again

This is going entirely too far, try Paths of Glory

You're so much smarter than me, and you know, connected because you have a producer bro on "Room 237." Sorry, I forgot.

it's ok, just don't let it happen again

Parts of Paths of Glory were actually filmed on the moon.

that major battle scene v much looks it.

I really enjoyed Room 237 ( and loved the backwards/forwards bits btw). Reminded me again how awesome Kubrick is and how I miss this kind of filmmaking. I was also put in mind of the book "The Making of Kubrick's 2001" which I read obsessively as a kid when I first saw that movie. It kind of does the same thing for 2001 as Room 237 does for The Shining - catalogues tons of stuff you missed and give numerous perspectives on what it's all about. Kubrick put so much thought and effort into the details so it's fun to have it all laid out.

I saw the 237 trailer the other night--doesn't appear to have been posted yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL1fTlH81gU

Obviously I get the connection to the movie, but I'm not sure why a VCR...is it just that the movie came out around the time videos started to take off? Anyway, great trailer.

it's about people going nuts from watching the shining a billion times on vhs. the frame rate is incompatible with human cognition.

Okay--that helps explain a few things about mom.

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/s480x480/485555_472558386147442_923294254_n.jpg

A few doors down the hall; no big deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsGtXCDu48Y

What is up with the music in Room 237? It's really bad.

whats creepy about that 227 joke is that the other woman is still there behind the curtain

i loved the music in room 237, it fit with the film's whole vibe

Yikes, calstars.

i know a couple of the people who did the music for room 237 (saw it last night) - i thought it was actually a high point of the film - granted it's almost impossible to compare to Bartok, Ligeti, and Penderecki (from the Shining itself) - but I liked it.

I felt like the structure of the documentary was a bit clunky, and the whole thing was too long, and that it didn't go far enough into absurdity.

your mom didn't go far enough into absurdity

please post more enlightening comments! you are such a brilliant poster!

YOU'RE such a brilliant poster

didn't read this thread, but feeling hostile vibes from the most recent two comments. fitting, i think.

i wish we could stay in this thread, forever...and ever...and ever.

xp - one of whom is grady!

whenever i'm in here, and you hear me typing... or whether you DON'T hear me typing, or whatever the FUCK you hear me doing in here, when i'm IN here, that means i am POSTING. THAT means DON'T COME IN.

make a cartoon of that and get very internet famous overnight and then drink to forget you did that

^ warming up the autotune

how much will you pay me to either name the next aerosmith album that or to not do that

haha I will contribute $50 towards that venture

The Shilling

Room 237 is quite something. I'd seen a Jay Weidner film/Q&A two summers ago, so I already knew about all that, but you can definitely become immersed in this film at a level apart from the theories themselves. Keeping the interviews in voiceover was a great decision, and I loved the incorporation of non-Shining clips (mostly but not all from Kubrick films); it sets out to be dreamlike, and I think it is. The impressive thing about the theories is how rarely I found myself thinking, "Oh, please" (the rare egregious example was Ullman's deus ex machina erection). The one I liked best was the idea of "pastness." Not saying I buy any of them, but the theorists pull you in. I also thought the backwards/forwards stuff was a trip--realizing you'd undoubtedly turn up the same amazing juxtapositions with any worthwhile film.

I've seen The Shining enough times by now that I don't think the film will necessarily get any better for me: I'll still love the same things, and still be less enthusiastic about others. But these people are impressive.

the numerology one was my favorite! there were 6 cases of 7-up stacked up in the corridor! And that = 42!!!!

Did that make the film? (I drifted a couple of times.) I know there was 2 x 3 x 7 = 42.

oh, i took a bathroom break in the middle (it was part of a double feature), it was an instance of 42 that I noticed, but maybe it didn't make the film?

I don't think it did, but that's good--they need to line you up for Room 237: The Next Generation.

it's so interesting! i like that it shows how the film, for these people, works more like a mirror reflecting the viewer. you find out a lot more about the people than the movie

xxpost sarahell they do briefly show the stacks of 7-up when they cover some of the "42" theories/patterns

There is a brief homage in iron man 3 where tony fights an extremis warrior in a restaurant kitchen and we get a brief ide glance of a can of Calumet.

Found an online version of the original article Steadicam guru Garrett Brown wrote for American Cinematographer back in August of 1980, entitled 'The Steadicam & The Shining'

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/page2.htm

It's pretty great reading

oh that rules vg thanks.

Although Stanley knows an astonishing amount about an astonishing number of things, his grasp of antenna theory is weak. He is, however, a formidable opponent in an argument - with or without the facts - so some bizarre theorems were actually tested and a disturbing number of them actually worked. By switching to various antennas hidden behind the walls, we were finally able to provide Stanley with acceptable remote wireless video nearly anywhere within his sets. To annoy him we would indicate the forest of TV antennas aimed at the studio from suburban Borehamwood and imply that the TV signal was escaping the sound stage and being watched by a gaggle of "Monty Python" women every morning:

"Ooooh, poor Mr Brown!... That take seemed perfectly good to me!"

Somewhat later, our imitation ladies got even more sophisticated:

"Ooh, must be the 24mm Distagon!, see how it's vignetting in the viewfinder!"

god i would kill for a 24mm distagon

xpost yeah that cracked me up

and this:

Although he would admit that I could produce a printable take by any reasonable standard within the first few tries, Stanley would seldom respond with anything but derision until about take 14. He did not appear to be comfortable until we were well beyond take 20.

Now the entire contraption [used for the Big Wheel shot] got to be quite difficult on the high speed corners. Dennis had to enlist relays of runners to get us around the course. Finally we had an explosive tire blow-out and the chair "plummered in", barely avoiding a serious crash. Afterward we switched to solid tires and carried no more than two people.

Stanley contemplated this arrangement and decided that the chair should have a super-accurate speedometer, and while we're at it so should the Moviola dolly and the Elemack.

lol I like this analogy: The only tricky aspect of shooting from the chair is that starts and stops tend to be dramatic. It is a little like carrying a full punch bowl in a decelerating rickshaw!

As Danny backs up stepping in his own footprints to fool Jack, I had to back up ahead of him also in bis footprints! To accomplish this I had to wear special stilts with Danny-shoes nailed to the bottom so I wouldn't make the footprints any bigger!

I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED ABOUT THAT.

HOLY SHIT. DANNY-SHOES.