Kubrick | Classic | Vanity Fair: While we’re on the topic of must-read Vanity Fair pieces about famous directors, here’s another one: a classic piece about Stanley Kubrick by Michael Herr, Kubrick’s friend and co-writer of Full Metal Jacket. An amazing piece on an amazing director. I’ve read it four or five times since I found it, and every time it’s completely engrossing and wonderful.
Douglas Trumball is working on a documentary on the making of the greatest movie ever made. Second one down, under “All Videos”.
Can’t wait to see this one. Thanks to Daring Fireball and Coudal Partners for the link.
Paths of Glory (1957) - The Criterion Collection - October 26.
A sometimes-enlightening discussion of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. The film historian is an average scholarly bore at best, and the production values of this program leave something to be desired, but McDowell and Burgess are great. (via Google Video)
A 75-minute interview with Stanley Kubrick from 1966. Candid and insightful look at how he got started in photography and filmmaking.
Stanley Kubrick on Stardust (featuring rare footage) : Choice quote from about five minutes in:
So then we talked for a long time about several things. At one time, he asked me if I cutted (translator probably meant “edited”) the old way or if I did that digitally, to which I replied I did it the old-fashioned way. After that, he literally spent several hours trying to talk me into doing it digitally from then on!
Kubrick was one of cinema’s most technically talented and intellectually gifted directors. That he would jump on the idea of digital film editing a la Final Cut doesn’t surprise me in the least. He and Peter Sellers carried on correspondence for years about the latest cameras they were shooting with for fun, what qualities they had, what was a good lens, so on. Kubrick was a camera geek!
Here’s a companion version with a commentary track by Vivian herself.
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There are some movies that are so bad that they feel like a vacuum of everything that’s right in the world, or they’re so lifeless and cliched that...
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Polaroids by Andrei Tarkovsky taken in Italy and Russia between 1979 and 1984.
that awkward moment when you realise you might not be the coolest dude in the room
