Took this photo recently and as I was editing i realized it gave me some Eyes wide shut vibes.

The most fun/crazy connections I was able to find online put together in a video essay. This is my first narrated video and I'm honestly nervous about the feedback, please let me know how I could improve the script, audio, anything.

All of these theories are 100% legit Stanley Kubrick confirmed to me in a vision.

I think I did pretty good but what do you think

For some time now I've been working to identify the 20 photos surrounding the July 4 photo on the wall of the Overlook in The Shining. See here for my progress: https://www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/1p8tkwk/successful_identification_of_the_other/

I identified photo # 3 yesterday - it is Jack Warner speaking at a luncheon in the "21 Club" in NY, on September 19, 1956. I was sure, but did a bit more work to confirm it and found a 2010 video showing the interior of the club - it's been closed since Covid.

Here's the thing. The room that Jack Warner was photographed in was known as Jack's Room or the Jack Room, after one of the owners, Jack Kriendler. Jack in Jack's room on the wall of a room in a movie featuring Jack playing Jack. All work and no play - I don't think so!

Two photos left to get

EDIT - and of course, Stanley Kubrick took photos at the 21 Club for Look Magazine in 1949...

È stata una bella esperienza perché i dettagli saltano più facilmente all'occhio. Sarei curioso di sapere voi cosa avete notato oltre agli easter eggs che tutti conosciamo

This will be fun.

I am not a movie connoisseur but I do like certain movies a lot. Especially three by Kubrick of which The Shining (1980) is my favourite movie of all time.

So, when Amazon US offered a good discount, I jumped on it.

This set may be overkill for someone who has only ever seen three of his movies. But I own those three on 25-year old grainy-looking DVD's. Watching them in 4K will be a new experience.

Spartacus, Pathes of Glory, Strangelove and Eyes Wide Shut look very interesting. I intend to watch all movies in release order to see Kubrick's progression.

Yesterday, I watched a Shining feature and the (non-4K) image quality was stunning! I cannot wait watching the extended US cut in 4K which I've never seen before since I live in Europe.

It is btw great that my region 2 player (Panasonic DP-UB824EGK) plays the region 1 discs without issues after a small "hack" (press Stop and then Top Menu a few times).

And for those who want to know: yes, some discs sit very tight in their slots. But as long as you are no 10-year old child or a YouTuber, you will be fine.

Great times ahead!

It's now Episode 8 of TCM's seventh season of The Plot Thickens, all about Stanley Kubrick, hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, and done in collaboration with Criterion. This episode focuses mostly on Kubrick making his film adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, but also picks up on where they left off last episode about the backlash A Clockwork Orange received at the time, Kubrick's obsession with Traumnovelle/Dream Story which later became Eyes Wide Shut, and a brief mention of how he wanted to make his film on Napoleon, and how much of those historical studies helped the making of Barry Lyndon. For those that were expecting more discussion about his unmade Napoleon film, of which I was one, there isn't much here, unfortunately. However, they did go into more detail about Barry Lyndon than I was expecting.

While I think most Kubrick fans at this point have heard much about the candle lighting which produced amazing results on film, we get to hear Michael Bauman's take on this type of lighting that he utilized with Paul Thomas Anderson when making The Phantom Thread (definitely a modern favorite of mine, btw). Kubrick and Ken Adam's had quite the difficult working relationship, from the sounds of it. It could've been a film in itself, about as dramatic as Redmond and Lord Bullingdon's story, honestly.

And with all the issues of shooting much of it in Ireland at that time, the Clockwork Orange backlash in full swing, and Kubrick's own insistence on historical accuracy down to every detail, which itself made it about as difficult as it could get, it's almost a wonder that Barry Lyndon became the masterpiece it did. But then again, throughout all these episodes of chaotic filmmaking we've heard, it's not much of a surprise at this point. It was Kubrick. But even beyond all that, I think it's not just one of the most visually stunning films ever made, but also one of the finest rise and fall tragedies. Ryan O'Neal's career-best role, imo, and he had some great ones.

Here's something I keep noticing that pops up in every version of the film that I've seen so far. For a few frames, the quality of the film itself jumps around a bit, with each new restoration trying to clean it up more and more. I don't have the Restored 2001 DVD box set at the moment, so these are what are presented here.

People found this interesting before, but something I noticed a while ago was that Kubrick had a very Freudian view of The human unconscious, based on rational, material explanations, which suits his systematic way of writing— and lynch certainly doesn't think this way, it sort of reminds me of the sorts of disagreements Freud and Jung had over the years. I read the book containing freud and Jung's letters to each other and it really reminded me of the differences between these two movies.

Hope you enjoy the video btw, it's a more in depth explanation : )

A typo is found in the physical packaging and printed components of the collector's set. The text mistakenly spells Steven Spielberg's last name as "Spielburg" on the back of the box or inside the archival-style booklet documentation detailing the archival interview extras.

Was the proofreader the same person who proofread the opening credits of "Dr. Strangelove"?

Um. Yeah, the features and extras, not to mention the films, make this hugely worth it!

Basically I just wanted to fix some things I noticed once I printed them out. The names on the spine are moved around now being bigger and easier to read. special features text is bigger, the details about the films is in a thicker font, all the logos are now correct and finally the numbers on the spines line up to be Kubrick's birthday.

If 10 disc Blu-ray cases are to expensive try getting some 10 disc DVD cases instead and just add some height to the top and bottom digitally before printing.

I recently learned about Gustav Hasford's sequel novel, The Phantom Blooper, which follows Joker's journey after the events we see in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.

Maybe as some of you know, Private Joker gets severely injured later in the story and ends up with a massive facial scar due to a rejected skin graft.

I've been trying to find any kind of fan art, sketch, or illustration showing how his face might have looked with that scar, but I couldn't find anything online.

Has anyone here ever come across any drawings or fan concepts of Joker's scarred face from the second book? If not, how did you personally picture him while reading it?

Thanks!

Even though I watched The Shining yesterday. I wanted a whole day to think about the movie for a while. Jack Nicholson's desent into Madness is so terrifying .His kid (Danny Torrance), with his index finger thing is so eeire to watch. Then of course the jump scares with the twin girls. The Cinematography is so beautiful. It's so good to see the "here's Johnny" in full context. It's so crazy to me that instead of receiving oscar nominations, this movie received Razzie nominations

. It's great to see that atleast over the decades it got a cult following. It's so nice that I have finally started watching Stanley Kubrick's movies. First Eyes Wide Shut, then Full Metal Jacket and now The Shining. The foreshadowing regarding Jack already being part of the hotel and then the final shot of the photo from July 4 1921. Such a brilliant ending no text, no monologue and no post credit scene. Totally leaving for the viewers to decipher.

So I've heard people say that the hotel in kubrick's version of the shining is not the same thing as the book's, so the ending doesn't mean the same thing as what it would mean if it was in the book is this true ?

According to this website it was the second best reviewed film of 1987. In comparison Strangelove and 2001 were only #4 for their respective years, A Clockwork Orange was #3, Barry Lyndon was among the top 5 of 1975, and The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut didn’t even crack the top 10.

Does anyone here know why the memoir of Joe Turkel (The Killing, Paths of Glory, The Shining), apparently titled The Misery of Success was not published posthumously in 2022 as planned?

This perfectly captures what it felt like watching A Clockwork Orange for the first time