http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/letsplaytheshining/
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 27 April 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
New movie from the director of Room 237 sounds really interesting: http://thedissolve.com/reviews/1633-the-nightmare/
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 5 June 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JFrfdl1.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link
The only shot from that take.
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/us/hotel-that-inspired-the-shining-builds-on-its-eerie-appeal.htmlhttp://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/09/04/us/04labyrinth-01/04labyrinth-01-articleLarge.jpg
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 12:25 (eight years ago) link
"(T)his maze of juniper trees disappointed some visitors."Fine caption.
― ̋̈ͨ̓ͩ ̂́͑̓ͭ̊͐̒͐ ̄ͫ̑̐́͊̆ ͥ͋͗̍ͫ̏̽͊ ͒͐̍ͮ͑ͧ͌̋̓ ̆̌͒ ̈́̏ͩ̒̓ ̆͂ͫ ͭ͐̌ͬ͊̎͒ (Øystein), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 12:41 (eight years ago) link
ah, hell, stupid username gets in the way of my stupid message
Wait til they read the book and realize it was animals, not a maze.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 12:48 (eight years ago) link
do you have the SLIGHTEST I-DEA what a MORAL OR ETHICAL PRINCIPLE IS? DO YOU?
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 30 October 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
then: a gesture to the diffuse snowy light above him, an expression of terrible pain at the thought of disappointing the hotel
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 30 October 2015 00:02 (eight years ago) link
http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbp28blMzK1qi4nyc.png
lol
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 30 October 2015 00:04 (eight years ago) link
one of my favorite Polish movie posters:
http://150597036.r.cdn77.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/shining41.jpg
― 빨간 럼 ఎరుపు రమ్ רום אדום (Eisbaer), Monday, 25 January 2016 05:27 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/P38VKsz.jpgthank you
― rip van wanko, Monday, 25 January 2016 05:41 (eight years ago) link
this is.... something:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i17pORf_iE4
― Darin, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 01:41 (eight years ago) link
A production electrician speaks:
One time Jack said he had done his back in and needed a few days off. That’s a lot of time when you’re shooting a big film, but Stanley said okay. The next day we were in the sparks room watching Wimbledon when Stanley walks in. He asks what we’re up to and as he turns to look at the telly, there he is: Jack Nicholson sat in the crowd with a girl on either side. Stanley went mad....
It was a small crew and he used us for bit parts. Because they rarely shoot leading artists when you can’t see their face, he said to me: “You look like Jack – put on the jeans and boots.” In the film, when a semi-conscious Jack is dragged into the food store, those are my legs on screen. He asked me to be the guy in a bear suit with his arse hanging out and his head in a man’s lap at the end. But I said: “No, mate, I ain’t having that.” Could you imagine? Everyone at home saying: “That’s Bobby Tanswell.” Nope, sorry.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/24/a-brush-with-jack-nicholson-stanley-kubrick-the-shining-1979
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 April 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link
I'd never seen this, but it's clever/cute:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jBgaX0ErGU
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
Was visiting my parents over the weekend and recognized the Overlook carpet pattern in their doormat.
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/20160430_130323_zpsnypwgquc.jpg
They've had the mat for years, but I just never made the connection. It definitely predates the patterns recent baconing.
― how girl's (how's life), Monday, 2 May 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
I'm sorry to defer with you sir. But you are the caretaker.
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 01:13 (seven years ago) link
It always throws me off when Grady uses the word 'nigger.' What the place has male, white racist ghosts? This doesn't support the "built on an indian burial ground" reference.
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link
Unless the ghosts are all figments of Jack's imagination - as is implied when Wendy disrupts Jack's drunken holiday with Lloyd at the empty bar.
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 01:18 (seven years ago) link
Or perhaps the ghosts are real, as is supported by the unlocking of the storeroom to free Jack, and they just take the form of whatever has been in Jack's experience, his understanding of the world, and his desires.
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 01:20 (seven years ago) link
Those desires being alcohol, sex, and violence
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
...embodied by Lloyd, the woman in room 237, and Grady
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
What the place has male, white racist ghosts? This doesn't support the "built on an indian burial ground" reference.
the force haunting the hotel isn't the force that resides in indian burial grounds. it's the force that builds things on top of them.
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 04:34 (seven years ago) link
all the best people.
me on this subject years upthread:
jack's a blue-collar white guy with cultured aspirations who's feeling humiliated economically (SHOVELING OUT DRIVEWAYS, WORK IN A CAR WASH -- ANY OF THAT APPEAL TO YOU?), and furthermore resents that what he at least hopes was an accident with his son's arm a few years ago has made it necessary for him to stop drinking and be really contrite and feel further unmanned, and is seduced on one level by an Evil Supernatural Power, in the form of a bunch of well-dressed whites having a perpetual power-drenched cocktail party in a luxury hotel built on a conquered graveyard (nice touch: "i believe they actually had to fend off a few indian attacks while they were building it!"); and on another level just by the ability, up there in the snow, to show his family who's boss. he gets drunk on this nasty fantasy of privilege that's built on bones, and when the hotel needs to spur him on it suggests to him that he's not Man enough to do his job and that his son feels safer around an n-word than around his father.
also wanna repost this description, from an essay eric h posted, of nicholson's repetition of the word, in
a tone that suggests he is not used to considering negritude an offense, is on the verge of disbelieving laughter, and yet is also fascinated by the new ripple of self-congratulating possibility here.
later, throwing himself into the possibility, he murders scatman crothers with an axe and unless i'm mistaken it's at this moment and no earlier that the ambient demonic whispery chanting kicks in on the soundtrack. then: the chilling climax, as jack casts his vote for trump.
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 04:52 (seven years ago) link
and yes: are the ghosts real? are they hallucinations? are they metaphors?whichever is most plausible to you the fundamental explanation is always the same: sometimes, when something happens, it leaves a trace of itself behind. i think a lot of things happened right here, in this very hotel/household/country, over the years. and not all of em was good.
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 05:21 (seven years ago) link
so on sundays, i work as a projectionist for both a matinee and an evening show, between which the 90-year-old movie theater is cleared and locked and the rest of the staff leaves and i hang out, alone, for a couple hours in the empty theater before the night staff arrives, with the projector and the sound system and the ah blu-ray player still online because i've been told not to shut them down until we close for the night, and, uh, don't tell anyone, but today, i
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 23 May 2016 04:03 (seven years ago) link
rip
― circa1916, Monday, 23 May 2016 04:07 (seven years ago) link
dad? do you like this hotel?
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 23 May 2016 04:09 (seven years ago) link
difficult listening hour on this subject years upthread otm
― da vinci beaver testicles (contenderizer), Monday, 23 May 2016 06:38 (seven years ago) link
ran a local movie this morning for some middle schoolers on a field trip, about an arrogant haole-boy champion surfer who wipes out during a competition in waikiki and warps to 1911, where he's rescued by and befriends duke kahanamoku and in becoming one of duke's crew (under the name "ghost") learns the true meaning of surfing. at the end, back in the present against his will, he visits the waikiki restaurant duke's, where his pov gives the movie its final shot: a slow dolly in on a framed b&w photograph of duke and buddies standing with monogrammed surfboards, GHOST gazing out alongside them. haha
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 26 May 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
this is insanehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AupAFblRwgYdrag your mouse to move
― ulysses, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
Is this something I should watch using one of those virtual reality headgear things?
― calstars, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
i didn't! i also didn't watch for more than five minutes but skip around!
― ulysses, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
whoa
― circa1916, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
Just found this on the street!
http://i.imgur.com/UtURBFW.jpg
― calstars, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Didn't like Room 237 quite as much the second time. There was one guy--his theory was vaguer than the others, and he had a habit of pausing and then laughing at his own commentary (the guy with a son who was out of work)--who started to get on my nerves. The most compelling theory to me is the Native American one, which I notice is proposed in this thread's very first post.
― clemenza, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
native american thing is compelling cuz it's just a theme in the movie like any other theme in any other movie. i don't think it's the center but it's there and it harmonizes w other themes. the other theories are occult+totalizing and (at least in the case of the moon landing) seem to involve the movie Actually being about something that has nothing to do w what it's pretending to be about, which is a less impressive concept to me than, yknow, a successful piece of art.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Just found this on the street!🗻
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― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
i passed Garrett Brown, inventor of the Steadicam, on his way into the Linc Ctr cinema last night. (ie he ran behind Danny in the maze)
no one tell clemenza
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 December 2016 03:45 (seven years ago) link
(ie he ran behind Danny in the maze)
wearing, never forget, danny-shoes
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 19 December 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link
you can still see The Shining in 35mm on NYE in NYC.
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/going-steadi-40-years-of-steadicam/#films
It is, of course, almost the worst film in that series.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 December 2016 03:52 (seven years ago) link
Xanadu must be much better than I've been led to believe.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 19 December 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
Didn't like Room 237 quite as much the second time. There was one guy--his theory was vaguer than the others, and he had a habit of pausing and then laughing at his own commentary (the guy with a son who was out of work)--who started to get on my nerves.― clemenza, Sunday, December 18, 2016 12:45 PM (eight hours ago)
― clemenza, Sunday, December 18, 2016 12:45 PM (eight hours ago)
Nah, that guy is awesome. His theories on the syncs, the wipes, the dissolves, and the forwards and backwards theory was incredibly compelling. Plus the Playgirl mag.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 December 2016 05:24 (seven years ago) link
The one who annoyed me was the architect (?) who claimed to have been mind-blown by the layout of the Overlook the first time she saw the film. Not because she didn't have something interesting to say, but rather because I sincerely doubt that even someone who is fascinated by architecture would notice a minor structural oddity on a first viewing.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 19 December 2016 05:27 (seven years ago) link
The masterstroke in this is when the babe in the bathtub becomes sick grandma. Nothing is more frightening to the male psyche than the realization that all flesh is mortal.
― calstars, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=434928
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
? I thought that might have been the professor in the film, but it's not...The course he teaches is Bio137!
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
it's the kid in The Shining
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link