Stanley Kubrick

[ie]

I couldn't really think of how to respond. Seems like we've beat the A Clockwork Orange arguments down enough, but I did want to bring up that Neon Genesis Evangelion (episode 12) was able to boil down this whole argument into two lines:

"Yet, this is a world that has been purified and purged of the original sin."
"I'd rather live in a world with people, no matter how stained with sin."


I still don't care for The Kubrick, but I think that's alright. We don't all enjoy the same movies, and I think that's perfectly acceptable. Just as long as you're careful with saying what is crap and what is just unenjoyable for you.

[criterionmaster]

www.nytimes.com/2006/10/31/movies/31scri.html?ei=5065&en=9c51090f28c5f5d2&ex=1163048400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

New Kubrick film?? Please read.

[captainofbeef]

criterionmaster said:

Maybe one of you could go more in-depth on what you found conventional about the film, since I really have seen nothing like that film before.

I felt that overall, most of the action, like trying to get past a sniper, had been done in flms before. Same thing with some of the main characters that you have grown to love being shot down by the sniper. Overall, after such a fantastic beginning, the ending is such a let down.

[kiddo]

Conventional? No way. In my mind.

It's not that much about what happens, it's how it happens. The sniper part thing could be put right into a horror film. The music, the camera work (zoom-ins anyone?) and all the other tricks Kubrick uses and puts into the film, makes this into some kind of a nightmare. I can, of course, only speak for myself, but I feel that in many war films, this whole sequence with the sniper would have put one of the soldiers, or the whole platoon, as big heroes trying to fight the sniper, describing the sniper as the devil himself/herself. (SPOILER WARNING) What Kubrick does in the film, and maybe espesially this sniper sequence, is that he first let us feel completely with these soldiers, and we, the viewer, wants revenge just as much as they do, when Cowboy has been shot. In the end, we, or at least I, feel for this sniper laying there on the ground, apparantly in great pain. There's so much thing about this sequence that just tells me 'unconventional', 'genious', 'nightmarish', and 'absorbing'.

[criterionmaster]

1. A Clockwork Orange (1971, R)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, G)
3. Eyes Wide Shut (1999, R)
4. Full Metal Jacket (1987, R)
5. Barry Lyndon (1975, PG)
6. Lolita (1962, Unrated)
7. The Shining (1980, R)
8. Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, PG)
9. Day of the Fight
10. Flying Padre

[blackmoses]

Who the FUCK deleted my post???

[criterionmaster]

My bad, you can just re-post what you had.

[kiddo]

You haven't seen Paths, cm?

I saw it a few days ago, for the very first time, and it was very impressive. The combat scene(s) was amazing to watch; maybe even more impressive than those in saving Private Ryan!


Updated list:

A Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket - higher up (was beneath Barry Lyndon last time)
Paths of Glory - new entry
2001: A Space Odyssey
Eyes Wide Shut
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
Lolita

[criterionmaster]

kiddo said:

You haven't seen Paths, cm?

I saw it a few days ago, for the very first time, and it was very impressive. The combat scene(s) was amazing to watch; maybe even more impressive than those in saving Private Ryan!

No, but I really want to and I plan to borrow it from ptahole. It looks outstanding.

[timbox129]

Hey! Remember Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange? More Info Here:

www.filmsite.org/cloc.html

www.filmsite.org/cloc2.html

www.filmsite.org/cloc3.html

Well, In 2000, A uncut and uncensored version of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is re-released to British Screens and will have its North American DVD debut in 2013 from Tim Box Home Entertainment and The Criterion Collection under the title, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange: Unrated, Uncut, and Uncensored. The 4-Disc Criterion Collection DVD Set will feature the uncut and uncensored version of the film reissued on British Screens in 2000 and in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, plus Dolby EX 5.1 and DTS ES 6.1 Enhanced Home Theater Mixes supervised by Sound Designers Christopher Boyes and Randy Thom, an isolated 5.1 EX music-only score also featuring the complete music score of A Clockwork Orange done by Wendy Carlos, a isolated 5.1 EX sound-effects only track supervised by Sound Designers Randy Thom and Christopher Boyes, and 3 discs of extensive supplemental materials, including an interactive, all-acess, multi-part, full-length documentary about not only the development, making and release of the film, but also the skirmishes surrounding the 1971 film. The digipak packaging will be LOTR-worthy, and highly-collectible, and will also feature a collector's booklet. Price Tag for A Clockwork Orange: Unrated, Uncut and Uncensored: The Criterion Collection: $35.98. The Street Date: October 22, 2013. So what will you think of that?

[criterionmaster]

Magnolia Home Entertainment has announced Color Me Kubrick which stars John Malkovich as conman Alan Conway, who successfully passed himself off as the famed director Stanley Kubrick. The disc will be available to own from the 27th March, and should retail at around $26.98. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. Extras will include an audio commentary (participants to be confirmed), some deleted scenes, and a making of featurette.


The film sounds fantastic to me, I really look forward to seeing it.

[criterionmaster]

i am getting a chance to see paths of glory in the theater on the 26th, with a film critic there who will do a q and a. anyone seen the film? what do you think of it?

[criterionmaster]

criterionmaster said:

i am getting a chance to see paths of glory in the theater on the 26th, with a film critic there who will do a q and a. anyone seen the film? what do you think of it?

fuck, i am going to have to miss paths of glory.

[criterionmaster]

www.amazon.com/dp/B000UJ48SG/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-20&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=B000UJ48SG&creative=373489&camp=211189



www.amazon.com/Shining-Two-Disc-Special-Jack-Nicholson/dp/B000UJCALI/ref=pd_bxgy_d_text_b/102-0003948-4492134



www.amazon.com/Clockwork-Orange-Two-Disc-Special/dp/B000UJ48T0/ref=pd_bxgy_d_text_b/102-0003948-4492134

new kubrick set i think?:

www.amazon.com/dp/B000UJCAKO/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-20&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=B000UJCAKO&creative=373489&camp=211189


wow, this is so good. who is fucking siked about this?!

[criterionmaster]

what the fuck, is no one excited about these?!!?!

source: hollywood saloon



I saw this at Hollywood Elsewhere...

Warner Home Video will release a nine-disc "Director Series: Stanley Kubrick Collection" on 10.23.07. New two-disc special editions of 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut and The Shining as well as a "deluxe edition" of Full Metal Jacket (which would be...?). Also included: the doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures. The whole kit 'n' kaboodle with set you back $79.92, but titles will also be sold individually for $26.99 a throw.

From Digital Bits...

The 2-disc 2001: A Space Odyssey - Special Edition will include audio commentary with stars Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, an audio-only interview with Kubrick, the Channel 4 documentary 2001: The Making of a Myth, 5 featurettes (Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001, Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001, 2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future, 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork and Look: Stanley Kubrick!) and the film's theatrical trailer.

The 2-disc A Clockwork Orange: Special Edition will include audio commentary by Malcolm McDowell and historian Nick Redman, the Channel 4 documentary Still Tickin’: The Return of Clockwork Orange, the Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making A Clockwork Orange and O Lucky Malcolm! featurettes, and the film's theatrical trailer.

The 2-disc Eyes Wide Shut: Special Edition will feature both the R and Unrated versions of the film, along with scene specific audio commentary by Sydney Pollack and historian Peter Loewenberg, the Channel 4 documentary The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut, the Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick featurette, Kubrick's 1998 DGA D.W. Griffith Award acceptance speech, an interview gallery featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg, the film's theatrical trailer and TV spots.

The 2-disc The Shining: Special Edition will offer audio commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter, The Making of the Shining documentary with optional commentary by Vivian Kubrick, 3 featurettes (View from the Overlook: Crafting the Shining, The Visions of Stanley Kubrick and Wendy Carlos, Composer) and the film's theatrical trailer.

Finally, the single-disc Full Metal Jacket: Deluxe Edition will include audio commentary by Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and Jay Cocks, the Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil featurette and the film's theatrical trailer. It's already available on both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD formats.

end of article.

[captainofbeef]

I just can't bring myself to shell out so much money for a new set. I think I just may buy the old one to save some dough.

[ie]

criterionmaster said:

what the fuck, is no one excited about these?!!?!

source: hollywood saloon

Dude, I am so fucking excited about these, I already pre-ordered fifty copies.

[dontdigonswine]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Dr. Strangelove; Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Eyes Wide Shut
6. The Shining

I currently only own Dr Strangelove, so I'm definitely going to be picking up a few of these. 2001 and Clockwork Orange especially, because those are the two movies of his that I really need to rewatch.

[criterionmaster]

well, the main problem is that all the films in the old set, aren't included in this set, so i might have to keep both! ugh. barry lyndon, lolita, and dr. strangelove aren't in this set.

ie said:

criterionmaster said:

what the fuck, is no one excited about these?!!?!

source: hollywood saloon

Dude, I am so fucking excited about these, I already pre-ordered fifty copies.

we all guessed you did, you are the kubrick master on the forum, so we knew you'd be getting tons of these sets!