Stanley Kubrick
-
The Playlist2 commentslike0tweet0
Watch: 55-Minute Oral History Of Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'
Just how enduring has the legacy of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" been? More than thirty years after it was made, we're still talking about, and it's not just because of Rodney Ascher's excellent documentary "Room 237." In the past while, we've seen: a prequel start developing at Warner Bros.; ano...
Read More » -
The Playlist5 commentslike0tweet0
M. Night Shyamalan Loves 'The Last Picture Show,' Says His Film Taste Is More Antonioni & Kubrick Than You Might Expect
M. Night Shyamalan has had one of the more -- interesting? controversial? -- trajectories of any filmmaker in recent memory. While no one remembers his first two movies ("Wide Awake," "Praying With Anger"), it was 1999's "The Sixth Sense" that made him a sensation, with many calling him the next Alf...
Read More » -
Press Play13 commentslike0tweet0
Sell Out the Hallway—Room 237 and the Stakes of Found Footage
"Room 237" bears a strong anti-intellectual impulse, more geared towards ramping up the spectacular weirdness of its interviewees than towards taking their ideas seriously.
Read More » -
Press Play1 commentlike0tweet0
ROOM 237 and the Attack of the Id Critic
"Room 237" is the first great comedy about film criticism. Or maybe it’s the first great horror-comedy. Or maybe I’m reading too much into it.
Read More » -
The Playlist3 commentslike0tweet0
Watch: Already Visited 'Room 237'? Dive Deep Into The Apollo 11 Theory With Doc 'The Shining Code 2.0'
Today, Rodney Ascher's "Room 237" arrives in theaters (review here), and it deliver an outrageous serving of theories around Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" that position the masterpiece as anything but a horror film. With the Holocaust, the treatment of Native Americans and sexual abuse among the m...
Read More » -
The Playlist9 commentslike10tweet17
Stanley Kubrick Pal Dismisses 'Room 237' Theories, Armond White Says Film Is "End Of Cinephilia"
Some details from within a film production serve to heighten the project's legend overall: the genius of “Jaws” only increased when the film's original gameplan -- a fully functional shark -- failed to manifest itself for Steven Spielberg and co. But the opposite has been true with Stanley Kubrick's...
Read More » -
Thompson on Hollywood2 commentslike1tweet4
'Room 237' Review: Why I Hated, Then Admired 'Shining' Doc
A funny thing happened on the way to reviewing “Room 237.” When I first watched Rodney Ascher’s documentary about fanatical theories on Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” I found it so patience-testing and angering that I had to turn it off at the halfway point. When I watched it a second time, obliga...
Read More » -
Caryn James0 commentslike3tweet3
'Room 237,' Kubrick Fanatics And a Bonus Recommendation
The rapturous responses to Room 237 that came out of the Sundance Film festival seem wildly overstated, but understandable. This modest, entertaining, and at times visually clever documentary about The Shining -- in which a handful of obsessives decode the signposts to supposedly "true" m...
Read More » -
The Playlist16 commentslike119tweet36
23.7 Facts About Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'
You know that a film is a lasting classic when it can sustain another entire film being made about it. Be it "Citizen Kane," "Psycho" or "Apocalypse Now," many of the great movies have themselves been the subject of films (sometimes successfully, sometimes less so), and the latest to get the treatme...
Read More » -
Thompson on Hollywood2 commentslike0tweet12
LACMA Kubrick Sidebar Goes 'Beyond the Infinite' with Director's Cut of Mike Hodges' 'The Terminal Man'
As a footnote to its ongoing Stanley Kubrick exhibit, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is currently hosting a series entitled "Beyond the Infinite: Science Fiction After Stanley Kubrick." The program gathers ten films that followed the seminal work of the genre, Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"...
Read More »
fresh from the blogs
-
VODetails: 'A Band Called Death'Criticwire
-
Watch: Awesome Trailer For Sundance & Cannes Hit 'Ain't ...The Playlist
-
BAM FilmAfrica Series May 24th – May 27th (Cinematic ...Shadow and Act
-
Immersed in Movies: Craft-Talking David Fincher's Emmy-Contender ...Thompson on Hollywood
-
Julianne Moore on Women and Aging in HollywoodWomen and Hollywood
-
CANNES 2013: Nicholas Winding Refn's ONLY GOD FORG ...Press Play
-
Good Night, Lost Boy(s)The Lost Boys
-
The Hangover Part IIILeonard Maltin
on 
