Watch: Ikea Spoofs 'The Shining' In New Ad Plus Watch 3 Early Short Documentaries By Stanley Kubrick
It’s been fifteen years since his death, but we can’t seem to stop talking about Stanley Kubrick. Just yesterday we saw a brand new trailer cut for the forthcoming U.K. theatrical re-release of his landmark “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and now we have an entirely different sort of tribute to the iconic director. In honor of Halloween, the Singapore division of Swedish furniture chain Ikea has released a minute and a half long commercial-cum-tribute (via Reddit) to Kubrick’s peerless horror classic “The Shining.” It’s a cute little recreation of the famous scene of Danny riding his tricycle throughout the Overlook Hotel, but with a new twist, of course. If you need more of a Kubrick fix, you can check out the director’s earliest films, a trio of short documentaries (via Open Culture). His first film was “Day of the Fight,” a twelve-minute long doc...
- 10/22/2014
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
(Stanley Kubrick, 1953, Eureka!, 12)
Virtually unseen since its limited initial showing in New York, and at last available in a carefully restored print from the Library of Congress, Stanley Kubrick's first feature film, the 62-minute Fear and Desire, completes the availability of one of cinema's greatest oeuvres. Made by the 24-year-old Kubrick when he'd established himself as a photojournalist on Look, and financed on a shoestring by his wealthy uncle, Fear and Desire is an anti-war allegory set in an unnamed country, where a young lieutenant, a battle-hardened sergeant, a tough GI and a nervous young recruit find themselves stranded in enemy territory after a plane crash. An old schoolfriend (future Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Howard Sackler) wrote the somewhat pretentious, poetic script for a film Kubrick directed, edited and photographed using a silent camera in a forest outside Los Angeles. The sound was added in New York with considerable complication,...
Virtually unseen since its limited initial showing in New York, and at last available in a carefully restored print from the Library of Congress, Stanley Kubrick's first feature film, the 62-minute Fear and Desire, completes the availability of one of cinema's greatest oeuvres. Made by the 24-year-old Kubrick when he'd established himself as a photojournalist on Look, and financed on a shoestring by his wealthy uncle, Fear and Desire is an anti-war allegory set in an unnamed country, where a young lieutenant, a battle-hardened sergeant, a tough GI and a nervous young recruit find themselves stranded in enemy territory after a plane crash. An old schoolfriend (future Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Howard Sackler) wrote the somewhat pretentious, poetic script for a film Kubrick directed, edited and photographed using a silent camera in a forest outside Los Angeles. The sound was added in New York with considerable complication,...
- 2/3/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The beauty of being a director is that you can get killer screen time without the hassle of actually knowing how to act. Being a good director, however, is knowing not to haphazardly stick yourself in your films – at least not unless you’re Spike Lee or Woody Allen. Really it’s all about identifying your limitations. So here are some neat ways that a director opted to show up in their film without taking the spotlight at the same time. These are creative little cameos that you might never notice in a million years of watching. 10. Stanley Kubrick Voices Murphy in Full Metal Jacket This one appears to be a topic of debate. Even the IMDb trivia page only says this is probably true – which is pretty amazing coming from one of the least substantial sources of movie trivia. It does sound like Kubrick though – not that I’m an expert or anything. Here...
- 1/31/2013
- by David Christopher Bell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Coming to DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in the UK on 28 January 2013, Stanley Kubrick's 1953 debut feature, Fear And Desire, is a gut-wrenching tale of survival, as four stranded soldiers attempt to escape from behind enemy lines during an unspecified conflict. Master of Cinema are givng the film a full work over, including a new restoration, and Kubrick's three short films, Day of the Fight, Flying Padre & The Seafarers. The release will also include an exclusive new video introduction from Kubrick scholar, critic and Cahiers du Cinéma American correspondent Bill Krohn, shot in Los Angeles in November 2012. MoC has also released a clip from the film to whet our appetites ahead of this release. From the press release:Independently financed with contributions from Stanley...
- 11/23/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Academy) are pleased to co-present the first U.S. retrospective of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, developed in collaboration with the Kubrick Estate and the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt. The exhibition (November 1, 2012.June 30, 2013) provides access to the director.s extraordinary vision and working methods while illuminating the network of influences and conditions that came together to make his films universally regarded as modern masterpieces. The Los Angeles presentation is made possible by a generous gift from Steve Tisch.
.By featuring this legendary filmmaker and his oeuvre in his first retrospective within the context of an art museum, Stanley Kubrick will reevaluate how we define the artist in the twenty-first century, and simultaneously expand upon Lacma.s commitment to exploring the intersection of art and film,. said Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of Lacma.
.By featuring this legendary filmmaker and his oeuvre in his first retrospective within the context of an art museum, Stanley Kubrick will reevaluate how we define the artist in the twenty-first century, and simultaneously expand upon Lacma.s commitment to exploring the intersection of art and film,. said Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of Lacma.
- 8/16/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Stanley Kubrick’s first feature film, 1953's "Fear and Desire", is more famous for its rarity than its actual content.
The military action/adventure follows a group of soldiers behind enemy lines who make their way down river to rejoin the unit. Kubrick, then 24, shot the film for just $50,000.
It has since earned a reputation as being a work Kubrick himself was not a fan of at all, and purportedly he tried to remove the film from circulation however he could. As a result for much of the past five decades the only way to see it has been through terrible quality home video bootlegs or the occasional theatrical screening.
Now, Kino Lorber have announced they're releasing a newly restored edition of the film from the Library Of Congress on DVD and Blu-ray on October 23rd. The company is also planning to release Kubrick's three early documentary short films - "Day of the Fight,...
The military action/adventure follows a group of soldiers behind enemy lines who make their way down river to rejoin the unit. Kubrick, then 24, shot the film for just $50,000.
It has since earned a reputation as being a work Kubrick himself was not a fan of at all, and purportedly he tried to remove the film from circulation however he could. As a result for much of the past five decades the only way to see it has been through terrible quality home video bootlegs or the occasional theatrical screening.
Now, Kino Lorber have announced they're releasing a newly restored edition of the film from the Library Of Congress on DVD and Blu-ray on October 23rd. The company is also planning to release Kubrick's three early documentary short films - "Day of the Fight,...
- 8/7/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
What was Stanley Kubrick's first film? Knowing how meticulous the director was — and what an absolute packrat he could be (see: documentary Stanley Kubrick's Boxes for more info on that) — we like to imagine that the filmmaker might have an undiscovered first movie still lurking somewhere in one of his many archives. However, IMDb chronicles the filmmaker's first directorial effort was a 1951 Rko pictures doc called Flying Padre, about a priest who delivers the word of God by monoplane across the world. That same year, though, Kubrick's Day of the Fight was made. After he left Look magazine — where he was employed as a staff photographer throughout the 1940s — the iconic moviemaker wanted to bring his images to life and decided to point...
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- 4/23/2012
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
On this Check This... is Stanley Kubrick's first film the short documentary 'Day of the Fight.'
Based on Kubrick's pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled "Prizefighter," "Day Of The Fight" tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier, particularly the day of his bout with black middleweight Bobby James.
This 16-minute short opens with a short (about 4 minutes) study of boxing's history, narrated by veteran newscaster Douglas Edwards in a no-nonsense, noir tone of voice. After this, we follow Walter (and his twin brother Vincent) through his day as he prepares for his 10:00 P.M. bout.
After eating breakfast, going to early mass and eating lunch, he starts arranging his things for the fight at 4:00 P.M. By 8:00, he is waiting in his dressing room, where he undergoes a mental transformation, turning into the fighting machine the crowd clamors for.
Based on Kubrick's pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled "Prizefighter," "Day Of The Fight" tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier, particularly the day of his bout with black middleweight Bobby James.
This 16-minute short opens with a short (about 4 minutes) study of boxing's history, narrated by veteran newscaster Douglas Edwards in a no-nonsense, noir tone of voice. After this, we follow Walter (and his twin brother Vincent) through his day as he prepares for his 10:00 P.M. bout.
After eating breakfast, going to early mass and eating lunch, he starts arranging his things for the fight at 4:00 P.M. By 8:00, he is waiting in his dressing room, where he undergoes a mental transformation, turning into the fighting machine the crowd clamors for.
- 4/12/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)
- FlicksNews.net
Who are the great American film directors? More to the point, who do we think are the great American film directors? Well, there’s Ford, of course, the Zeus of the American pantheon, by turns comic, epic, maudlin and humane. Then there’s Welles, the ill-fated genius, abused by producers but beloved of critics. Spielberg, even in his seventh decade, is still the boy wonder; Scorsese the mad scientist. Griffith is the wise forefather, deeply flawed but idolized nonetheless, while Hawks is ageless, just as sly and self-assured as he was at the time of “The Big Sleep” (1946).
Kubrick, however, beats them all.
Is there anyone more respected or, with the possible exception of Hitchcock, recognizable? Turn on any Stanley Kubrick movie and you should know instantly, whether you’ve seen it before or not, who the film’s director is. The peerless, pristine images; the long, empty corridors; the upturned,...
Kubrick, however, beats them all.
Is there anyone more respected or, with the possible exception of Hitchcock, recognizable? Turn on any Stanley Kubrick movie and you should know instantly, whether you’ve seen it before or not, who the film’s director is. The peerless, pristine images; the long, empty corridors; the upturned,...
- 4/9/2012
- by Graham Daseler
- The Moving Arts Journal
As part of the Guardian and Observer Film Season, we settled down for an afternoon matinee of John Wayne romance The Quiet Man, as voted for by you. What happened when Andrew Pulver turned on Channel 4 at 12:05pm?
11.42am: Last night Michael Hann roughed it out with Daniel Craig in gangster thriller Layer Cake. The night before, Steve Rose and David Thomson tried to decipher David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
Today, we're going for a change of pace, as Guardian film editor Andrew Pulver watches The Quiet Man, in which John Wayne plays a retired boxer who romances Maureen O'Hara in Ireland.
11.46am: But we need your help. Let us know what you reckon to the film. Does the Duke convince? Is this one of John Ford's finest? Post a comment at the bottom of the thread, tweet @guardianfilm or email Andrew Pulver.
11.49am: Hello everyone. Never...
11.42am: Last night Michael Hann roughed it out with Daniel Craig in gangster thriller Layer Cake. The night before, Steve Rose and David Thomson tried to decipher David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
Today, we're going for a change of pace, as Guardian film editor Andrew Pulver watches The Quiet Man, in which John Wayne plays a retired boxer who romances Maureen O'Hara in Ireland.
11.46am: But we need your help. Let us know what you reckon to the film. Does the Duke convince? Is this one of John Ford's finest? Post a comment at the bottom of the thread, tweet @guardianfilm or email Andrew Pulver.
11.49am: Hello everyone. Never...
- 10/5/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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