Stanley Kubrick

[sexy-girl]

what do you think of stanley kubrick ... ive been watching a documentry on him the past 2 nights on BBC2 (for people in uk) was he overated ? what was your fav film by him ? ... i personally think he was probably the best director ever who changed film making and infact is still beyond film makers of today

my fav film of his was dr strangelove

 

[nasty]

Hewas DEFINETELY 1 of the best directors EVER!!!!! My favorite film of his is "The Shining." I just get chills everytime I see Jack Nicolson staring out at his family as their having a snowball fight. The guy is just INSANE!!!!! Insanely AWESOME!!!!!!!!

 

[lavender]

 

[nasty]

Hewas DEFINETELY 1 of the best directors EVER!!!!! My favorite film of his is "The Shining." I just get chills everytime I see Jack Nicolson staring out at his family as their having a snowball fight. The guy is just INSANE!!!!! Insanely AWESOME!!!!!!!!

OH. I forget, when he says, "I wish we could stay here forever, and ever, and ever," right after the scene with the twins. MAN!!!!!!!

 

[p_p_man]

He was one of the best...

Watched "Clockwork Orange" the other night on cable. It still had the same impact on me as it did when I saw it before it was banned.

 

[sexy-girl]

ive never seen clock work orange i really want too even though its meant to be quite disturbing ... kubrick "banned" it from the uk himself because it was getting very negetive press about causing murders and such


its unbanned now though but i havent got round to seeing it yet

 

[shadowsource]

A total master!

Most of his movies are among the best ever made. He basically created Peter Sellers in LOLITA. SPARTACUS is one of the greatest war flicks ever. PATHS OF GLORY is one of the best antiwar movies. STRANGELOVE is perfect. 2001 awesome. I don't much like the tail end of CLOCKWORK, but the first 2/3rds are fierce, almost perfect. Nicholson in THE SHINING is one of the best angry, demented father perfromances in the history of movies. I didn't like BARRY LYNDON when I first saw it, but it now seems an incredible moving painting, a Gainsborough in motion; the duel scene with the stepson is incredible. EYES WIDE was a bit lame, yeah.

 

[sexy-girl]

i agree completely shadowsource except he didnt create peter sellers


the "go ons" did hehe wonders if you know what i mean

 

[nasty]

I gotta disagree about Eyes Wide Shut. That movie is SO underrated. The scene were Tom notices the mask on his pillow was AWESOME!!!!!!! And that music with only those few notes? DISTURBING!!!!!!! OK, so maybe that was a bad chose of words. It was freaky, though.

 

[shadowsource]

Sorry, I meant in the US market -

i agree completely shadowsource except he didnt create peter sellers


the "go ons" did hehe wonders if you know what i mean

Are you talking about the "Carry On" movies. The Goon Squad? I know he was big in the UK, but I believe Kubrick gave him his first dramatic role for LOLITA, and also changed the story a lot to make his Clare Quilty character far more significant. I like this movie a lot, with James Mason and an excellent Shelley Winters.

I was disappointed with EYES WIDE SHUT, so cold, so unaffecting. As always, lots of things in the movie were brilliant, including that weird, grainy look. And the sound.

 

[nasty]

OH. I thought it was affecting. When Tom cries at the end, and babbles, "I'll tell you everything. I'll tell you everthing." Makes you wonder how many mischievous secrets are being kept locked inside EVERY married couple. It's best just to be honest with people. Take me, for example. Although, I admit, you guys are the few who know my little secret.

 

[sexy-girl]

the goons ... peter sellers, harry secombe, spike milligan and michael bentine ... was a radio show started in the 50's and was where peter sellers came from very funny even now it influenced both sides of the pond so maybe your point is mute about kubrick creating sellers ... either side of the pond (sorry) ... without the go ons then would probably never had monty python its that sort of style

they called the go ons because a very early review called them that instead of the goons ... the name is sarcastically still used now

 

[nasty]

Just wondering, did you watch the documentary on Sellers on AMC? I caught a snippet of it. That's the only reason I know what your talking about.

 

[sexy-girl]

nope i didnt ... i never remember where i remember my useless bits of information from

 

[nasty]

YEAH!!! I have SO much useless info., I can't keep track of it.

 

[vlvtelvis]

Dr. Strangelove predicted George W. to a tee. Can't you just see him in a cowboy hat riding a bomb?

Eyes Wide Shut could have been better, and he left a lot of stuff out of The Shining. I'll gladly sit through either of them again though.

I can't help but wonder what AI would have been like if speilburg hadn't gotten his fuzzy hands on it.

 

[HARDKOREBJ]

S K

CLOCKWORKORANGE IS MY FAVORITE

 

[nasty]

Your right, of course. Kubrick left ALOT out of "The Shining." Althoiugh, I was gald he left out the ending with the shrubs. The maze ending was MUCH scarier. If you want to see a version closer to the novel, watch the mini-series. I thought it sucked, but that's me.

 

[Lost Soul]

I am glad that Paths of Glory was mentioned. He made many great flims in B&W in his early days, one I can not remember the title right now but it was about robbing a race track and how everything goes wrong after careful planing.

 

[nasty]

I know the one you mean. I only saw about 20 mins. of it. "The Killing."

 

[shadowsource]

THE KILLING -

I am glad that Paths of Glory was mentioned. He made many great flims in B&W in his early days, one I can not remember the title right now but it was about robbing a race track and how everything goes wrong after careful planing.

His third movie was THE KILLING, whose time scheme is way more meaningful and compelling than Tarantino's fartful PULP FICTION. It stars Sterling Hayden, though, who was a stick figure actor who supported the McCarthy blacklist. But it's a very good movie, and the one that got SK PATHS OF GLORY (Kirk Douglas was behind that and SPARTACUS, both very politically risky).
He sued Film Forum in NYC a few years ago to prevent them from showing his first movie, which is supposed to eb avery weird mess. He lost, but I missed it. He qualifies as a genius.

 

[Lost Soul]

Thanks, that is the title. TCM shows it every few months.

 

[nasty]

Now, would any woman like a bit of the old, "In, out?" A REALLY cool thing about Strangelove,(apart from the movie,)is watching a young James Earl Jones.

 

[shadowsource]

yes -

THE KILLING was Kubrick's third film (he unsuccessfuly sued Film Forum in NYC to stop them a few years ago from showing his first, a weirdness I never saw). THE KILLING starred Stirling Hayden, a stickman actor who supported the blacklist in the 50s, but it's a very good film with an innovative and compelling time structure that way outclasses Tarantino's fartful PULP FICTION, and it came almost 40 years earlier.

 

[shadowsource]

sorry -

I thought the earlier one hadn't posted....