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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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Erk
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RE: Dr Kubrick: Or How I Learned To Direct Cult Cinema: Now Disc: "2001: A Space Oydessey"
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Yeah, that what I meant, unlike most other directors who like to switch the focal point from left to right. Splitting the screen in two equal parts make the composition centered around the split. alas in the middle.
Interesting that he wanted to work in the old aspects, I didn't know this. I know Tarkovsky also wanted to do that. And they are by far the best "widescreen" directors I know. While I think someone like Kurosawa or Bergman works better in like 3:4.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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Nah, the big screen is overrated. I saw 2001 on the big screen in 2001. (actually on 9/11, so I'll never forget that viewing) and it was just as good as on my 20" tv-set (like 16" letterboxed)
Since you never saw it on the type of screens that were prevalent in the 60s and early 70s that Kubrick designed the movie for, you don't know what you missed. I speak from experience.
As far as the big screen being overrated, you don't speak for me.
Where exactly was the "supposed" big screen 9/11 screening of 2001?
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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2/17/07 5:27pm
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Great movie; Kubrick's emotional distance continues, but he has a brilliant eye and a brilliant ear. His usage of music is outstanding here and Douglas Rains wrings incredible pathos from HAL. HAL's 'death' scene is one of the most disturbing scenes of modern cinema.
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JediTrilobite
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2/17/07 9:08pm
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Wonderful film. I really like the starkness, something that a lot of modern films really don't do. I really need to get a copy of this.
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Erk
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"Since you never saw it on the type of screens that were prevalent in the 60s and early 70s that Kubrick designed the movie for, you don't know what you missed. I speak from experience.
As far as the big screen being overrated, you don't speak for me.
Where exactly was the "supposed" big screen 9/11 screening of 2001?"
I saw it in an old theater (built in 1956, showing regular movie-screenings until -95 and then turned into a cinematheque theater) with about 100 m2 of screencanvas in Göteborg (Sweden).
Of course I don't know if that screen were exactly the type of screen that were prevalent in the 60s and 70s and the type which Kubrick had in mind when he filmed it, so sure maybe I don't know what I've missed.
For more information about this wonderful cinema:
http://www1.tripnet.se/%7Eadler/draken/index.html
And remember: There is only one person that speaks for you and that person is you!
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waheennay
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Favorite joke in 2001: A Space Odyssey was the THOUSAND word instructions on how to use a bathroom in outer space!
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what's that music that plays at the beginning that is all epic sounding? i can never remember what it's called. that being said i really need to watch the whole movie. i've never gotten all the way through it
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss; or a minute and a half of it, anyway. 
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Kubrick has completely wrecked The Blue Danube for me
My fave bit is with HAL, man that computer is scary!
"What are you doing, Dave?"
The end is a little confusing though, I think I'll try and find the novel.
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JohnWesleyDowney posted:
The closest analogy I can think of today would be an IMAX screen.
That would be outstanding! Especially the ending when Bowman goes through the Monolith. 
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I just saw Sympathy for Lady Vengeance the final movie in Korean director Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance trilogy. I had seen the second, Oldboy but not the first, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. I definitely saw a Kubrick influence in his style. I looked up an interview of Chan-Wook and he did say Kubrick was one of his favorite directors. I think the two most influential directors were Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock. While both Hitchcock and Kubrick were both known as very visual filmmakers, Hitchcock was more about montage and juxtaposing images, while Kubrick's way was kind of to "present" the audience with one image after another. You can usually tell if a particularly visual young filmmake is either influenced by one or the other or both.
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Kubrick is brilliant. Preferred A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon to 200 though.
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the more geeky amongst you might have guessed what comes next already:
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 1971
a film that got banned in england or i think kubrick himself banned it from screens in an interesting act of self-censorship, but then i'm sure one of you can tell that story better than i just did.
i was very intrigued when watching, by the use of russian vocabulary, by the choreography, by the scariness of it. it's a brutal film, a friend of mine couldn't watch the rape in it and personally i think i just pushed that to the back of my head and very vividly remember the opening shot of alex and his friends in the milk bar or whatever it was.
i'm not sure i'd want to see it again, like most of his films, it's quite the intense experience and unsettling as well.
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Zaz
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Cold, brilliant, and very unlikable.
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darth_frared
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it's the old controversy, isn't it. about how 'nice' has art got to be.
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