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Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: "Paths of Glory" is due to start on TCM
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darth_frared
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4/30/07 4:18am
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "Barry Lyndon" (1974)
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yes, when you changed the thread title.
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Zaz
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4/30/07 7:21am
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "Barry Lyndon" (1974)
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*Sigh* I have chronology problems at times.
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darth_frared
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4/30/07 7:46am
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "Barry Lyndon" (1975)
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don't worry. i'm sure no one minds. if people have seen this thing anyway.
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Zaz
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5/10/07 9:14pm
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "Barry Lyndon" (1975)
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It's a chilly film. Thackeray is difficult to adapt, because this particular problem is built right into the material.
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darth_frared
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5/11/07 2:04am
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "Barry Lyndon" (1975)
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never read thackeray and i doubt i will after nearly sleeping through this film. and seeing as people have flocked here to defend its merits, i might just update soon 
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Zaz
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5/20/07 2:18pm
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "Barry Lyndon" (1975)
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Lots of people have defended this film to me on the basis that it's beautiful. And...sure. But plot's more important to me than filming by candlelight, thanks.
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Erk
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5/21/07 1:51am
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "Barry Lyndon" (1975)
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Well the plot's there. It's jsut that it lacks any emotional content. It's a very strange story about a very unlikeable man who on sheer luck gets to travel all of europe and climb the ladder of success. In his films Kubrick could be a big humanist (w. strangelove and path of glory) but more often that of an extreme nihlist (ACO, eyes wide shut, FMJ, Barry) where no one is neither good nor bad but caught not under destiny but under the world's rationality.
After all he came from still photography where you get no explaination to the work, and kinda transferred that to moving pictures; 2001 is about nothing, Barry Lyndon is about nothing, etc.
It's art for art, and just as I appretiate a 18th century painting I appretiate Barry Lyndon. In fact BL is even better cause it has chopin in the background.
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Zaz
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5/21/07 8:46am
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "Barry Lyndon" (1975)
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You can look a slide shows of great Art with Chopin in the background. It comes to the same thing.
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Erk
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5/21/07 3:15pm
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Man, that I gotta do! To the art museum!
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darth_frared
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5/22/07 4:07am
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "Barry Lyndon" (1975)
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no making fun of the master in this thread 
on to another movie, tho, one that is far more inspirational while being horrific at the same time.
THE SHINING
cue creepy noises.
part of me can't watch this stuff so i'll just say that i've only seen it once and that it's pretty much unbearable. there is, however, a lighter bunny version available.
so there.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY.
(on a side note: i like how for kubrick the germans are actually going through the trouble of translating the written stuff along with the spoken which in this film led to: WAS DU HEUTE KANNST BESORGEN DAS VERSCHIEBE NICHT AUF MORGEN. meaning: don't postpone things which you can do rightaway. i find that equally creepy.)
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MariahJade2
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5/22/07 4:50am
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "Barry Lyndon" (1975)
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Barry Lyndon was about as much fun as watching grass grow. The Shining was a different story. If I hadn't read the book first I might have liked it, but knowing what was left out and changed just made me annoyed and disappointed. It took years for me to appreciate this for what it was and separate it from the book. Shelly Duval will always be bad casting for me though.
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5/22/07 8:56am
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "The Shining"
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i think somebody mentioned this film in the beginning of this thread. color me kubrick has come out now.
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Erk
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5/22/07 3:39pm
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The only problem Ive got with this one is that nicholson seems outright insane from the very beginning. Kubrick again strips the story from any kind of dept there might have been from the beginning. But then reading King for any kind of dept in your life is like reading Dan Brown. It's the visuals that counts.
Jack Nicholson would have made a good Homer Simpson BTW.
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Zaz
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5/23/07 7:40am
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "The Shining"
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"The Shining" is a deeply weird movie, and no, I'm not talking about the ghosts. The couple is supposed to be extremely ordinary, so of course Kubrick casts Shelly Duvall and Jack Nicholson, which throws the film out of whack at once. It's not about ghosts, it's about Kubrick's deep contempt for--or fear of--ordinary family life.
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Erk
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5/24/07 2:40am
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"it's about Kubrick's deep contempt for--or fear of--ordinary family life."
And how can one not respect a man who feels that way about that bourgoise institution.
The kid is normal though, unlike that cleft lipped kid in the stephen king okayed miniseries.
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