From memory: "Come, come now Col. Dacks--you really are an idealist!"
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 March 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
Douglas' sputtering Kirk Douglas Monologue aimed at Menjou is unconvincing -- it's paced like a scene beloved of Oscar voters -- but I guess the film needed to let some air out.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 March 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
Paths of Glory was my favourite Kubrick film for the longest time, until, within the past 10 years, it was pushed aside by Barry Lyndon--which, it occurs to me, might be the perfect thing to watch tonight in terms of tone and trying to get some perspective on all of this.
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 March 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
I have been meaning to get around to watching Barry Lyndon for 20+ years, still the only Kubrick I've never seen lol
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 March 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
the Humphrey Cobb novel of Paths ends with the execution, but I think Kubrick and Harris both agreed the audience had to get *some* moral relief (eg Gen Mireau punished in some form for his shoot-our-troops order).
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 March 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
It's amusing to see Emile Meyer, who played the crooked cop in Sweet Smell of Success ("Sidney, come over here so I can chastise you!"), play the priest.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 March 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
Barry Lyndon is great, everyone talks about how beautiful and painterly it is (it is) but until I saw it again relatively recent I forgot about all the zooms in the movie. it felt like a comedy in a theater
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link
Spartacus seems like a classic 1960s spectacle film
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link
I like it better than I tend to like these things.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link
complete with an overture and intermission!
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
The Brits (Olivier, Ustinov, Laughton) are having great fun, and in life they loathed each other.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
yes, mastah
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
I did like seeing the men’s bodies in the baths
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
the oysters vs snails interlude made me chuckle
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
it's even funnier when you revel in the Anthony Hopkins dubbing of Olivier
(that scene was restored in the '90s)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
I know Kubrick distanced himself from it, and as much of a 60s hollywood production as it was, I liked it. want to see Paths of Glory again
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 April 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
Never managed to get through it myself.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
Kubrick knew how to handle Roman maniples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgywD3XJaWU
Shame he never teamed up with Bondarchuk's Red Army for his Napoleon biopic.
― speaking moistly (Sanpaku), Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
dud
― fuck it (Left), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
show your working
― imago, Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
no i’m good thanks
― fuck it (Left), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
That Spartacus battle scene was one of the "And a Cast of Thousands!" kind of scenes, where it cost so freaking much to get it onto film that they were never going to reduce it to a fast-paced fifteen seconds of action.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
yes, and that clip is just the beginning of the battle sequence
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 April 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
fartacus
― fuck it (Left), Friday, 1 May 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
sorry ignore
― fuck it (Left), Friday, 1 May 2020 00:30 (three years ago) link
I also recite da classics
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 May 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
have been rewatching Kubrick’s films in order. The Killing, Paths of Glory, Spartacus and Lolita are all so different
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 May 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
love the edgelord first post on this topic
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 16 May 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
Did you catch the first two? Killer's Kiss is very good imo.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Saturday, 16 May 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
don’t see killer’s kiss on any of my subscriptions but fear and desire is on kanopy, I will watch it
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 May 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link
It's not great apart from the sense of unreality and detachment, cool to see this in embryonic form. I love that he borrowed money from his uncle to make it and expected it to make his investment back as a Saturday afternoon feature.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 16 May 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
edgelord first post right not wrong
― mark s, Saturday, 16 May 2020 12:26 (three years ago) link
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 May 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link
yes, through the SF library. when I signed up they were giving access to 8 films a month, but they have increased the number over time, it’s now 15/month
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 May 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
Wow!
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 May 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
watched Fear and Desire, it was ok. Paul Mazursky's first film role!
― Dan S, Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
can see the humor in Lolita but struggle to be amused by Dr. Strangelove, I think it is the wrong time to rewatch this movie, it’s hard to see it as comedy at this moment
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 June 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
That’s what makes it great? Human being’s survival isn’t a factor in the humor.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
I do think it is great, watched it again today trying to ignore the present moment, appreciated it more
― Dan S, Saturday, 6 June 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
I watched "Strangelove" with my older kid recently, and it really hit me, for the first time, just *how* black it is as a black comedy. Like, it goes so far in that direction that it's barely a comedy. George C. Scott is brilliantly broad, and the bits with him and the Russian ambassador are slapstick funny, sure, but so much of the rest of it is so bone-dry in its delivery. The humor is in the absurdity and mounting doom of the scenario, not in the jokes, per se.
I bet Kubrick was a big fan of "Airplane!", though.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 June 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
Sellers' reactions during the bodily fluids discussion are gold
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 6 June 2020 04:23 (three years ago) link
Filmworker is on film 4 on Wednesday night (at 01:50)
― koogs, Saturday, 6 June 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
rewatched A Clockwork Orange in a dysphoric state of mind. The vision, concepts, imagery were great but I didn't enjoy it. I appreciated Kubrick's dystopian films when I felt more secure and safe myself, but not now
― Dan S, Saturday, 4 July 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
watching it now I just want the comfort of Singing in the Rain
― Dan S, Saturday, 4 July 2020 01:41 (three years ago) link
An ugly film I managed to get through twice; no desire to revisit.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 July 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
I think it stands at the top of the heap as an aesthetic achievement, but yes, it’s ugly. It has to be ugly.
― circa1916, Saturday, 4 July 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
I did think about that after I posted--it can't be anything else, so I'd really have to organize my thoughts and provide a lot more explanation than just that.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 July 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
Understand. I will say for such a deeply stylized and attractively art directed film, the violence in it has always struck me as uniquely disturbing. There’s nothing cool or sexy about any of it.
― circa1916, Saturday, 4 July 2020 04:01 (three years ago) link
It’s his most puerile, which for him must have been some kind of achievement.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 July 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
It has to be ugly.
It doesn't have to be uglier, more puerile and more vulgar than the book, which it is.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link