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...he alive today, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick would have been 82 years old. To celebrate, let's look at his life...in Youtube-sized segments ... after the jump. Footage of Kubrick at the New York premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey: Stephen King discusses working...
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Luke Frenette spoke to Mew’s guitarist Bo Madsen as the band soundchecked prior to their show at Toronto’s The Mod Club last weekend to discuss the new album and how their music is like Stanley Kubrick’s films.
Q: U2’s Bono called Mew “world-class”.
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Stanley Kubrick spent two years researching his Napoleon project before it was killed off by the Hollywood studios. Photograph: PA
A boxed book landed on my doorstep the other day, too big to go down a rubbish chute let alone through any conceivable
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Guardian Unlimited
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Beginning as early as 1967, even as he was still in post on "2001: A Space Odyssey," Stanley Kubrick spent the better part of the next three years meticulously, comprehensively, obsessively researching the life of Napoleon, a project that would
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Before 2009 comes to a close, I'm dipping into my archives to consider ten years of Eyes Wide Shut. One of Stanley Kubrick's most underrated pictures, and a movie that in terms of love, sex, death, fuck, fear and tr채ume remains timeless. It's also a
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The great directors who never won a directing Oscar -- Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks -- all made the kinds of movies that traditionally get overlooked for best picture. Add them to the helmers who've never even
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It’s impossible to tell you what I’m going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made, Stanley Kubrick wrote to an associate in October 1971. Wily chess master that he was, the director rarely resorted to bombast. But in his
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Stephenie Meyer's teen angst-fest sucks all the fun out of vampire mythology. The film may not be high art, but it knows how to entertain. Just look at Robert Pattinson's facial expressions.
Stephen King has been public about his distaste for Stanley
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It should have been an epic endeavour that would have dwarfed his other films
in both scale and ambition: Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon was the
great obsession of the director’s career. A three-hour portrait of the
emperor and the man, Napoleon was
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Hy Peskin Stanley Kubrick, reflected in a mirror, photographing a showgirl, Rosemary Williams, in 1949.
Stanley Kubrick wanted the grit. Still in his teens, the future director photographed New York City’s underbelly in the 1940s and ’50s, shooting
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Poster for Taming Light, a group exhibition featuring painting, photography and illustration inspired by the films
of Stanley Kubrick. The show is presented at the Light House Cinema in Smithfield, Dublin during October '09.
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Few horror movies are packed with as many iconic scenes and memorable lines as Stanley Kubrick’s , a gorgeously shot and chilling tale of one man’s descent into madness adapted from one of Stephen King’s best sellers.
Jack Nicholson plays Jack
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In Hollywood, the word "complicated" has two general meanings. The first refers to someone as "difficult" -- a pain-in-the-prat. The other refers to someone whose working process is intricate enough to try everyone's patience, but in the end
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In the Men who Stare at Goats, George Clooney stars as Lyn Cassady, one of the men who participates in the US government's psychic experiments. Courtesy Overture Films
A voice-over by the reporter Bob Wilson (Ewan McGregor) runs throughout this comedy.
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The director of Lolita, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining and 2001: A Space Odyssey planned to make the three hour epic film Napoleon budgeted at $5.2 million ($100 million today) before turning to Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange
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There’s a story Stanley Kubrick’s friends like to tell. On the set of Eyes
Wide Shut, the renowned perfectionist had outdone himself.
In a scene where Sydney Pollack’s wealthy socialite addresses Tom Cruise’s
doctor, the actors had been requested to
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Brazilian rocker Momo plays tomorrow at the North Star with Rachael Cantu and the indie girl group Post Post.
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A complete guide to events in the region over the coming weekend will appear in the Weekend section in Friday's Inquirer. Send notices
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There’s a story Stanley Kubrick’s friends like to tell. On the set of Eyes
Wide Shut, the renowned perfectionist had outdone himself. In a scene where
Sydney Pollack’s wealthy socialite addresses Tom Cruise’s doctor, the actors
had been requested to
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I adore movies because they encompass the whole world and allow you to titillate a myriad of interests without having to hone in on just one. (Same with writing -- why pick one slice of life when you can write about them all!?) But there's a side-love -
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The continuing significance of Stanley Kubrick as an iconic image-maker will be reflected in an intriguing exhibition set to open in Dublin’s Light House Cinema next Thursday. John Maguire, film critic with the
Sunday Business Post and Today FM, has
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Irish Times
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2009/0925/1224255182918.html
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The Egyptian Theater begins a retrospective of Stanley Kubrick films tonight. On the big screen at 7:30 pm is a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Watch this morality tale on technology as supercomputer HAL attempts to eliminate the
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Jack Nicholson is served a drink by eerie barman Lloyd, played by Joe Turkel, in a scene from Warner Brothers' "The Shining," directed by Stanley Kubrick.
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play
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Jack Nicholson is served a drink by eerie barman Lloyd, played by Joe Turkel, in a scene from Warner Brothers' "The Shining," directed by Stanley Kubrick.
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play
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And starring, as our short French hero... Jack Nicholson!?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about Stanley Kubrick. The man holds a rarefied position in film history that he managed to secure after only four or five films, two of which he
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Stanley Kubrick may have been a true film auteur, even one of the greats, but if he had a failing, it was the beer goggles he often wore when casting his movies (on his death bed, he gave them to Clint Eastwood. “You wear them now,” he said, weakly).
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"You are free to speculate, as you wish, about the philosophical and allegorical meanings of 2001."
- Stanley Kubrick
What should film be? What should a good film accomplish? Kubrick challenged our very notion of those concepts in 1968 with perhaps
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Stanley Kubrick may have been a true film auteur, even one of the greats, but if he had a failing, it was the beer goggles he often wore when casting his movies (on his death bed, he gave them to Clint Eastwood. “You wear them now,” he said, weakly).
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Editor’s note: TV critic Aaron Barnhart is in Pasadena, Calif., for the annual Television Critics Association fall tour.When the cast of “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” took their seats on stage, the press in the hotel
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KansasCity.com
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Veteran Hollywood industry figure who has served triple duty as a producer, director, and screenwriter. Harris' most notable contribution to American cinema was producing several seminal early films directed by Stanley Kubrick. The Harris-Kubrick
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And starring, as our short French hero... Jack Nicholson!?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about Stanley Kubrick. The man holds a rarefied position in film history that’s unlike almost any other filmmaker. And he managed to reach said
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So smirks Matthew Modine’s Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick’s great Vietnam film — and the movie that, more than any other (at least, in its combat-centered second half), casts a stylistic shadow over the hair-trigger
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When thinking of Stanley Kubrick's substantial oeuvre, a word that doesn't come to mind often is "funny." This is a mistake of course, as even his bleakest movies have at least a
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At this stage of his career, Thomas Pynchon resembles Stanley Kubrick more
than he does any living novelist. Like Kubrick, Pynchon is a maverick
visionary, a creator of iconic, sometimes inaccessible works of art;
famously reclusive and yet the
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Times Online
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Release date: June 16th, 2009
MSRP: $38.96
Theatrical release date: Jan 29. 1964
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George (Screenplay), Peter George (book: Red Alert)
Stars:
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A year before Neil Armstrong first stepped from the lunar lander in 1968, Stanley Kubrick released the groundbreaking film 2001: A Space Odyssey . It promised not a few tentative steps in space, but a routine passenger flight set to a waltz. Sure, it
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NPR
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With his first film release since 1987's Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick returned to American cinemas with Eye's Wide Shut on July 16. 1999 . Initial reports of the film were based on rumors and secrecy. Finally in theaters the controversy surrounded
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Daring Fireball
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Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain, Frank A. Miller, Bill Weston, Ed Bishop, Vivian Kubrick, Glenn Beck, Alan Gifford, and Ann Gillis.
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Just how subversive is this 1964 black comedy about nuclear Armageddon? Nearly 50 years after its release, now that mutual nuclear annihilation between the Soviet Union and the United States doesn't feel like a constant if lunatic possibility, the
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Baltimore City Paper
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Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange is a hardcore film full of violence, rape and murder. Therefore some people might find it difficult to understand why someone would want a scene or image from the film as a permanent tattoo.
Leaving the film aside
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Trend Hunter
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If you think the Internet came out of Silicon Valley, that NASA planned the first satellite to orbit Earth, or that IBM created the modern computer—think again. Each one of these breakthroughs was conceived at RAND, a shadowy think tank in Santa Monica,
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Mental Floss
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If you are the type of person who believes what you are told, then the release of James Gray's Two Lovers is probably your last chance to see Joaquin Phoenix 'the actor' before he takes the hip-hop world by storm -- but that's only if you believe what
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“Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures,” 7 p.m., TCM. This 2001 documentary salutes the director with reminiscences from stars of his most memorable films, including Tom Cruise (“Eyes Wide Shut”), who narrates.
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/1267153.html
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Another name for "Moon" might be, and I mean this only slightly facetiously, "2009: A Space (Spacey?) Odyssey," as it's virtually impossible not to be reminded of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece between Kevin Spacey's soothing ministrations as a computer
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Los Angeles Times
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Steven Berkoff worked with Stanley Kubrick (above) on A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Barry Lyndon (1975)
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British actor, playwright and director Steven Berkoff is coming to Bulgaria in early June to attend productions of his
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Jack Nicholson is served a drink by eerie barman Lloyd, played by Joe Turkel, in a scene from Warner Brothers' "The Shining," directed by Stanley Kubrick. See more ghost pictures.
"All work and no play
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In 1962, Stanley Kubrick travelled to England to shoot Lolita, an adaptation of the infamous Vladimir Nabokov novel. Among the film's stars was Peter Sellers, who was then unable to leave Britain due to other work commitments, and this was the
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I think I have learned more about making records from than from anyone else. I remember my sense of astonishment and recognition when I saw a documentary about him filming 'The Shining'. He must have thought about this movie intensely, obsessively, for
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The Telegraph
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Any road in post-1960s science fiction that doesn't lead back to the inspiring humanism of "Star Trek" begins instead with the ironic, indelible chill of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Actor Gary Lockwood has traveled both roads. The ex-stuntman, now 72 and
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