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Amazing Kubrick promo (The editblog)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:05:59 GMT

Holy crap this is amazing. Things Best Said pointed to a promo for the UK’s Channel 4 special Stanley Kubrick programming. When promotions go right!

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Boxes + Clutter (imran.ali)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:20:38 GMT

This morning I serendepitously came across a review of Peter Walsh's book on decluttering, It's All To Much and got the chance to catch More4's documentary on Stanley Kubrick's Boxes - each work ostensibly a stark counterpoint of the other....

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The Greatest SciFi Movies Never Made Contest! (MoviesOnline!)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:18:03 GMT

Time for another contest this go around you can win a copy of the fantastic book The Greatest SciFi Movies Never Made! Steven Spielberg’s Night Skies, Stanley Kubrick’s Childhood’s End, Philip Kaufman’s Star Trek: Planet of the Titans, Kevin Smith’s Six Million Dollar M...

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Movie Playlist: Brad Anderson (/Film)

orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:07:07 GMT

... It runs the gamut, in no particular order and no particular preference, I just caught, anything by Stanley Kubrick , I can watch those movies again and again I don’t know why, but just something about what he invests in his films and the meticulous level of detail, and choreography that I just find as a filmmaker craft of film making is so apparent in his movies that every time you...

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Why Line Up at Midnight for a Movie? (Time)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:06:50 GMT

... history Pictures at a Revolution. Harris recalls standing in the summer heat for hours to see Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and witnessing fellow line jockeys "literally fainting. A couple of people threw up and there was a fist fight."

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Why Do Moviegoers Line Up at Midnight? (Time)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:06:41 GMT

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A defense of Jack Torrance (Pro Cynic)

noreply@blogger.com (ProCynic) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Last week I watched my DVD copy of one of my favorite movies, Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining , featuring one of my favorite actors, Jack Nicholson, playing the role of Jack Torrance. Yes, I know it is not exactly faithful to the Stephen King novel of the same name; King himself commissioned his own miniseries version of The Shining in 1997, and a very nicely done miniseries...

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Winter Nights Films—Make Your Choice (I Choose Indy!)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:23:58 GMT

... 1927, 75 mins, B & W) with live accompaniment by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. Lolita (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1962, 152 mins, B & W) BUT THAT’S NOT ALL FOLKS! Back by popular demand - the IMA’s Film Poll. We want to know what you want to see. Polls close soon, and at that time the movie that has the most votes in each one of the categories below will be chosen for the 2009 Winter...

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The Letters of Stanley Kubrick (LinkMachineGo)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:05:35 GMT

[movies] The letters of Stanley Kubrick … Kubrick on Full Metal Jacket: ‘My intention was not to relish violence for its own sake but to emphasise the reality of both the training process undergone by the recruits and the war situation in which they found themselves. A crucial aspect of this process is the use [...]

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Mutual Assured Destruction is Funny Too (Stoneman's Corner)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:05 GMT

In connection with the current brouhaha over the New Yorker’s Barrack and Michelle Obama cover, The Reliable Source of yesterday’s Washington Post reports that the satire in “Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” went right over the newspaper’s metaphorical head when it first appeared. The Post’s Feb. 21, 1964 review of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece was...

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We’ll Meet Again, Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When (Extreme Mortman)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:43:02 GMT

... Forty-four years ago, it was The Washington Post that didn’t get the joke. The subject was Stanley Kubrick’s movie “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” A scolding article (”Film With A-War Theme Creates New World Problems for U.S.,” Feb. 21, 1964) ripped “anti-American” themes and scaremongering that could “cause the United States as much harm as...

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Another clean-up job for Pixar (The Herald )

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:02:02 GMT

... terrain. With minimal dialogue and a multi-layered story this is a film that's more at home on Stanley Kubrick Avenue than Sesame Street. It may take a while to settle into, and Stanton's tale might sometimes overreach itself, but a trip to WALL.E's world is one all ages should be able to marvel over.Stanton sets the edgy tone in the opening minutes with, of all things, a jaunty tune...

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"I'm a doctor!"; Yes, of course you are, Dr. Harford (Movie City Indie)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:22:54 GMT

From the Telegraph's Stanley Kubrick: a props odyssey . All drawn from the Kubrick Archive . Make an appointment today!

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Stanley Kubrick’s Letters (The mental_floss Blogs)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:18:21 GMT

The Telegraph has posted a series of letters and telegrams from Stanley Kubrick’s archive. They are at turns bizarre, amusing, and revealing — often showing his frank interactions with actors and studio representatives. Here’s a sample of the correspondence related to 2001: A Space Odyssey: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, 1968 The process of collaboration [...]

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Stanley Kubrick: a props odyssey (The Telegraph)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:20:27 GMT

War-ravaged weapons from 'Full Metal Jacket', eerie papers from 'The Shining', Tom Cruise's driving licence from 'Eyes Wide Shut' … As the Stanley Kubrick archive - all 900 boxes of it - is opened up for the first time, Chris Hastings provides a guide to some of the objects that made movie history.

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Stanley Kubrick (World A-Team Cricket Forum)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:16:50 GMT

There is season of Kubrick films starting this week on British TV. Just by chance a few weeks ago I bought a book Kubrick: Inside a film artist's maze by Thomas Allen Nelson. I watched all the films ( cheap CD's) and read the book which totally opens up a new slant what the films about. I recommend unreservedly. It covers mainly his later film.

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Sci-fi film: The apes weren't cuddly (LA Times)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:11 GMT

... initiated into a cultural dialogue that was, after all, about our future.The movie, of course, was Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," and many critics and much of the public instantly recognized it as a landmark. It was, wrote L.A. Times film critic Charles Champlin, "the picture that science-fiction fans of every age and in every corner of the world have prayed (sometimes...

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Kubrick Tracking Shot of The Shining Set (MilkandCookies.com)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:28:55 GMT

Channel 4 has painstakingly recreated the set of Stanley Kubrick horror film The Shining, complete with look-a-likes of the crew and cast members including Shelley Duvall, for a TV ad to promote a More 4 season of the director's films. The 65-second promotional spot has been filmed as a one-take tracking shot through the recreation of The Shining. Viewers get Kubrick's point of view as...

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Retro TV W/C 11th July 2008 (Retro To Go)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:05:44 GMT

... recent Alan Yentob Imagine... documentary. Also this week, journalist John Ronson trawls through Stanley Kubrick's vast archives in True Stories: Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (More4. Tues 15th, 10pm) to reveal the perfectionist film-makers life through the hundreds of carefully catalogued artefacts in his estate. And for those wanting a slightly more low-brow evenings viewing,...

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All Work And No Play Makes For A Pretty Awesome Kubrick Ad [Short Ends] (Gossip Thug - GossipThug.com)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:30:54 GMT

newVideoPlayer("/chan4_def.flv", 506, 423,""); · If you love The Shining —and who doesn't—we're pretty sure you'll love this commercial plugging a Stanley Kubrick retrospective on UK TV. [ thighswideshut.org , Channel 4 ] · The "Straight Dave" referred to in that Arkansas gay wrestling prank is rumored to be another character Sacha Baron Cohen is playing in Bruno : "A gay man trying...

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