kubrick birdmad Something i noticed while watching a few movies over the weekend Kubrick had this thing for long narrow corridors and other such things the hallway of the Overlook in "The Shining" the barracks, the view of the rows of bunks receding into the distance in "Full Metal Jacket" various spaceship interior shots from "2001" The hospital/morgue corridor from "eyes wide shut" the protagonists in his material were always, in one form or another, trapped 010325 ... frAnk excellent observations. kubrick was a genius and we are fortunate to have his filmography to appreciate and find inspiration. may he rest in peace. 010326 ... j_blue agreement 010327 ... COLDandBLUEkitty stanley kubrick equals .yum.yum.yum. 010429 ... silentbob betsy is doing a report on him. originally she wanted to do John Lennon, but nikole stole him from her. Then she wanted to do Cameron Crowe, but he just hadn't influenced enough people, Mrs. Williams said. So she went with Kubrick. i couldn't be prouder. 010429 ... Bird 9000 i'm afraid, dave 010430 ... silentbob i need to get the shining and a clockwork orange and 2001 and spartacus and eyes wide shut and lolita and full metal jacket on dvd 020416 ... pilgrim Eyes wide shut was a real Disappointment, Maybe the uncensored European version would be better, But only to pander to my Voyueristic self. Dr. Strangelove (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb) Now there is one of my all time Favorite Kubrick films. That and 2001 a Space Odessey But that one tends to make reality a bit of a Disappointment for me now. When it was Produced, THAT was my vision of the Future, I really believed We were going somewhere. Instead we are locked in the gravity pit Getting ready to slug it out over the last can of beans. Too bad. 020416 ... Cicero kubrick was a photographer before he was a filmmaker. I believe that directors with a strong grasp of photography, or a good relationship with the cinematographer, are more capable of achieving their vision. Kubrick was his own such relationship. 030116 ... no reason i think i would have liked a.i. a lot better if he had finished it instead of spielberg. 030116 ... e_o_i In dreams, the substance of a "Stanley Kubrick retrospective" is seven posters. There are supposed to be eight movies; Dr. Strangelove is missing. I'm not sure my waking mind can remember eight Stanley Kubrick movies without Google... Quite sure, like the dream said, there were two war movies, older Paths of Glory and newer Full Metal Jacket. The Shining, which I've never seen and everyone else has. Dr. Strangelove, as mentioned above, which I've seen twice. Oh, and A Clockwork Orange. Seen. Of course 2001: A Space Odyssey! Seen. Didn't he make a movie of Lolita? Haven't seen, though I remember a cover with heart-shaped glasses like Taylor Swift wore in "22." Spartacus, a long time ago, or was that Quo Vadis? Nah, too Christian. Spartacus it is. Whew. Quota filled, and I can also think of Eyes Wide Shut. Haven't seen. 150109 ... epitome of incomprehensibility IMDB gives him 12 feature-length films, plus four short early ones. I was rather distracted by his picture: he was quite beautiful, looking like Franz Kafka when young and Salman Rushdie when older. I can't believe I left out Barry Lyndon, which I think is my favourite, because unexpected. The mix of romanticism/sensuality and "classicism" and cynicism (and I can't noun-ism) wasn't quite like anything I'd seen before, without being very strange in itself. 150109 ... raze "the shining" grows on me more every time i see it. not that i didn't like it before, but now i have a deeper appreciation for the way it takes its time. some people find it kind of boring. and i get that. but "horror" films that hammer you over the head with gory deaths and screaming victims and gross-outs and fake-outs and deafening sounds every few minutes do nothin' for me. i mean, in this one, you know jack's crazy from the outset, the eyes give it away, but for a long time you don't know how deep the crazy goes. having so much penderecki on the soundtrack doesn't hurt, either. 150109 ... e_o_i Penderecki! I didn't know that. That's pretty cool, even though I'm not always happy with the perception that weirder (usually newer) classical stuff = scary music. I kind of understand it, though. People are used to a certain type of music so other things seem strange, and strange things seem scary. Besides, there's been a history of unexpected chords/sound effects to indicate scary things in movies... e.g. the mM7/augmented arpeggios in Vertigo and the "knife" sounds in Psycho. The ghost of Kubrick is hovering over my shoulder now, telling me this thread is about HIM, not that populist hack Alfred Hitchcock. All right, Stanistan. I'll see your movie! (Maybe tomorrow, if I've time/inclination?) Also, I've happily danced around to Thomas Adès's Asyla and Messaien's Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor pour le fin du temps)... as well as Taylor Swift's "22." Don't judge me! 150109 ... raze hey, you're talking to someone who, a week or two ago, recorded a late-night demo of "i knew you were trouble" as a folky acoustic thing, played completely straight. no judging here! 150109 what's it to you? who go blather from