Stanley Kubrick: Classic or Dud?

it definitely benefits from that brutalist architecture and design

also Stan was at least 10x the filmmaker Derek Jarman was

watched The Shining again, seeing it again after all of these years reminded me that it’s hard to remove one's self from the original experience

it’s hard to remove one's self from the original experience

Wait.. Dan... Danny?

:)

went with my older sister to see it, she let me choose the film, it scared her so much that she never quite forgave me for the decision

So the guy who directed "Dr. Strangelove" also directed a movie called "Barry Lyndon" and not once mentioned the Daisy ad.

Not explicitly, no, but if you take into account the title and the fact that he also directed 2001 (“Daisy, Daisy”)... it’s up to you to connect the dots

holy crap, it's all been right there on the screen the entire time.

What’s the daisy ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7SW5aOX2_I

I don't know which is scarier, nuclear war or white people using sour cream as a dip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riDypP1KfOU

Is anyone else confused about this thread revive?

At my first Zoom synchronous lecture about an hour ago, several of my film students named Kubrick films and admitted to loving them -- dude, always dudes.

these dude are in the 18-24 range.

Is anyone else confused about this thread revive?

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I was, but looked it up earlier, and it turns out "the Daisy ad" went out (one) in Sept 1964, 9 months after Dr Strangelove went on general release, so if anything the direction of influence is that way round.
Im guessing the revive post was a gag though, so

D'oh I've just realised the Barry Lyndon/LBJ part of the gag.

To spell it out, Lyndon's opponent in '64 was a guy named Barry.

ZOMG

Ha holy shit

yeah, i got that part (Goldwater/Lyndon). I thought the main gag was that Dr Strangelove might have been influenced by an ad that came after it was made

the first part of Full Metal Jacket seemed a lot funnier than I remember it being when I first watched it

saw Eyes Wide Shut again after many years, I was reminded that behind the erotic thriller it is about a relationship in trouble

there were a lot of really enigmatic moments though, that were hard to incorporate into the story and which made me wonder what else was going on

Two friends and I covered Kubrick's whole career in these monthly Zooms we've been doing. This one's split into eight parts, the kind of thing you can pick up wherever. Generally speaking, I'm a fan, Steven (for the most part) isn't, Scott's somewhere in between, I think we got a little tired the farther we got into it. I followed up by reading Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece--obsessively detailed, made me want to watch it again (I'm an arm's-length admirer), but wow, a lot of the descriptions of what they were up to were so abstract for me. I just didn't understand a lot of the technical stuff.

Fear and Desire - Spartacus
Lolita - Strangelove
2001
Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut

nice! looking forward to watching at least some of these.

Thanks, J.D. For all my befuddlement, recommend that book, too. I'm at least clearer on some of the film's most basic plot points.

inspired by Blank Check podcast’s Kubrick series, watching Spartacus for the first time

not to state the obvious but goddamn what a great movie. I love this epic stuff.

Fascinated to read this about STRANGELOVE:
https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/my-coffee-with-stanley-kubrick.html

So the people behind the Filmworker documentary have completed another Kubrick-related documentary called SK-13, and some interesting information about Eyes Wide Shut being edited even after his death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZE_IfSz1qI

I thought that it was known from the beginning that the film wasn’t entirely finished when he died