No.4294
I swear this is the only good board left, all the other boards on here are so culturally devoid of intelligence. In the past month I've gotten a new found love for French films, as well as classic silent films. I'm a filmmaker in my spare time and some of the stuff you guys have posted has seriously inspired me to get off my fucking ass and actually film something.
Also general Kubrick thread, is his stuff before Dr. Strangelove and 2001 worth watching?
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No.4295
Everything he made is interesting in its own way, in part to see how an iconic filmmaker operates under very different circumstances. Fear and Desire resembles a great student film. Killer's Kiss is more of a proper independent film, taking place in the big city of New York. The Killing is a top-notch heist noir. Paths of Glory was his first major success. Spartacus is a studio gargantuan that he could not fully control. Lolita is his return to a scaled back, autonomous style of filmmaking with a better sense of his own style.
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No.4300
Does the pope shit in a funny hat?
The Killing and Paths of Glory were some of his best imo. I don't know what to throw at it, 'timeless' maybe.
Don't deny yourself the pleasure of watching them any longer.
I didn't care much for Lolita, since the book was much better, but I guess it's watchable.
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No.4330
>>4294Yes. Watch everything he did including the documentary for the Navy.
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No.4376
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
Jon Ronson sifts through the director's huge personal archive after his death
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No.4436
>>4376Thanks for posting this.
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No.9925
>>4294
anybody got a GIF of the opening shot?
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No.9942
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No.9971
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Bill Butler, the editor of A Clockwork Orange, just died. This line from his obit stuck out to me:
>He was introduced to Kubruck by “The Shining” editor Ray Lovejoy, and cut “A Clockwork Orange” in Kubrick’s garage. His son recounted that he worked alongside Kubrick 14 hours a day, seven days a week, for nearly a year.
First off that is craziness - those numbers would mean nearly 100 hour of work per week. It's closely related to the fact that Kubrick liked to do take after take after take of a scene. You may assume he was trying to get the "perfect" take. But I don't think he always knew what he wanted at the time of filming. Instead I think he wanted a lot of footage of each scene because that gave him a lot of options for editing. Since these many options had to pass through Kubrick's obsessive perfectionism, it's no surprise to hear about such a grueling editing process.
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No.9991
>>4330
Read 2001 also.
>>9971
I'm sure many people here have at least tried to read A Clockwork Orange, it was hard for me to get into, but the foreward/intro or whatever I remembered as saying that the American version of the book did not have the final chapter in it and Kubrick had based the film off of the American version of the book.
Basically Alex ended up trying to go back to his old life but is rather fed up with it and just goes about his life normally as if nothing had ever happened. Where as in the movie when you see him flash that crooked smile again you're left thinking he just ends up back at his old tricks again for good.
>>4294
I've seen the Killing, Spartacus, and Lolita. The Killing and Spartacus are very well done but typical films of that era. Lolita you really start to see Kubrick push the envelope in my opinion.
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No.9992
Strangelove is my favorite. Went completely dark in and never in my life did I expect such a hilarious comedy.
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