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In the “hot takes” section of the 2002 Village Voice film critics poll, Jim Ridley stated of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, “with its vast model-train environments that swarm with massed pixels, I couldn’t wait for the next establishing shot—something I don’t think I’ve done since Barry Lyndon.” I mention that perhaps hyperbolic testament less as a confirmation of the enlarged reputation of Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 costume drama and more of a quick means of demystifying a film that to this day feels singularly impenetrable, even alongside the likes of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Eyes Wide Shut.

Received with condescension or maybe toleration upon its release, Barry Lyndon has seen its reputation boast a trajectory that matches that of its central figure, the caddish Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal). The film climbed the ranks from being the stubborn black sheep in the director...

Inside The Making Of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon(Photo Credit –Amazon Prime Video)

Stanley Kubrick didn’t make ordinary films, and Barry Lyndon was no exception. While most directors would’ve passed on a period drama centered on a fairly unremarkable man, Kubrick turned it into a technical milestone.

He used custom-built lenses originally developed by NASA, not for style but because he wanted to shoot scenes lit entirely by candlelight. There was no artificial lighting or shortcuts, and truth be told, that’s the kind of obsession that shaped his work.

Stanley Kubrick Shot Barry Lyndon Across Europe Over Eight Months

The Eyes Wide Shut director never chased a spectacle while filming this movie. The story follows Redmond Barry, a man fumbling his way through high society, and is desperate to fit in. Kubrick mocked the absurd rituals of aristocracy through a man too average to truly belong,...

On what would’ve been Stanley Kubrick’s 96th birthday, his estate’s afforded us a gift: streaming for free is Shine On – The Forgotten Shining Location, a Paul King-directed and Michael Sheen-narrated documentary that looks at the final surviving set from his horror landmark and features interviews with Jan Harlan, Katharina Kubrick, and art director Les Tompkins.

With that stated, promotion time: we’re screening a 35mm print of Eyes Wide Shut at the Roxy Cinema between August 3—6 with our friends from Chapo Trap House‘s Movie Mindset, and a discounted $12 ticket offered with mention of our program at the box office. To celebrate, watch an extended talk with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Harlan circa the film’s release, along with a documentary about the film’s making.

Here’s a synopsis for Shine On: “Relive the story of how Stanley Kubrick took over Elstree Studios...

Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location explores an area of The Shining that hasn’t been covered before, here’s the trailer.

This month, we lost Shelly Duvall. Among her myriad acting roles, not least one of the most perfect pieces of accurate comic book casting ever as Olive Oyl in Robert Altman’s Popeye, she is perhaps best remembered for her incredible performance opposite Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The tales of tyranny from the set are legendary, with stories of endless takes and Duvall suffering from nervous exhaustion.

Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location examines an area of the film not previously covered in documentaries like Rodney Ascher’s 2012 film Room 237.

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Almost 50 years after its release, all the Overlook Hotel’s sets are thought to have been destroyed, but one last filming site remains. “There have been so many...

Few movie sets in Hollywood history have generated more interest than the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.” The fictional Colorado hotel provides the backdrop for Jack Torrance’s (Jack Nicholson) descent into madness, and Kubrick devotees have spent countless hours analyzing symbolism in the production design and the disorienting effects created by the hotel’s impossible floor plan. The hotel sets, hailed by many as some of the defining craftsmanship of Kubrick’s filmmaking career, now get their moment in the spotlight in a new documentary set to be released on the late director’s birthday.

Produced in partnership with the Stanley Kubrick Film Archive and the director’s estate, “Shine On — The Forgotten ‘Shining’ Location” dives into Kubrick’s process of scouting locations for the film and working with his design team to bring his vision to life. Narrated by Martin Sheen and directed by Paul King,...

"Nearly half a century since the movie's release... a forgotten filming location has been discovered." Whoa! There is a surprise new Stanley Kubrick documentary debuting next week on YouTube. It's called Shine On - The Forgotten Shining Location, directed by Paul King, an official film from Elstree Studios. It's being released on "Kubrick Day", celebrating Stanley's birthday. The doc is about the discovery of a filming location for Kubrick's masterpiece The Shining that is still intact. All the other fabricated locations & sets for the 1980 horror movie have since been destroyed (or lost). This one is an office building where they shot the kitchen scenes and a few other interiors of the Overlook Hotel. "The production of The Shining has been well documented & analyzed, but this is a story which has never been told. Pivotal scenes from the film took place in these areas, so going back to them felt...

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining gets explored from a fresh angle in Shine On – The Forgotten Shining Location, Indiewire reports today. The upcoming documentary, “certified by the Stanley Kubrick Film Archive and family estate,” is said to “capture the location scouting and making of the art direction for the Overlook Hotel at Elstree Studios.”

The documentary’s trailer will make its way online this Friday while the documentary itself will premiere on the Stanley Kubrick YouTube channel on Friday, July 26 at 2pm Est.

Indiewire’s report details, “Michael Sheen narrates Shine On, which includes interviews with The Shining executive producer Jan Harlan, art director Les Tomkins, and Kubrick’s daughter Katharina Kubrick, who worked as a location researcher on the film.” They will share memories of the production while also revisiting the iconic studio locations.

“There have been so many rumors about some of the sets from The Shining still existing at Elstree Studios,...

The Overlook Hotel is being revisited in a new “The Shining” documentary, certified by the Stanley Kubrick Film Archive and family estate.

The just-announced documentary, titled “Shine On – The Forgotten ‘Shining’ Location,” will premiere on the official Stanley Kubrick YouTube channel on Friday, July 26 at 11 a.m. Pst/2 p.m. Est to commemorate the late filmmaker’s birthday. The feature captures the location scouting and making of the art direction for the Overlook Hotel at Elstree Studios.

Michael Sheen narrates “Shine On,” which includes interviews with “The Shining” executive producer Jan Harlan, art director Les Tomkins, and Kubrick’s daughter Katharina Kubrick, who worked as a location researcher on the film. The interviewees will “revisit the studio locations and share their memories about a film frequently voted the best horror film of all time,” per the official synopsis.

Almost 50 years after the film’s release, all the Overlook Hotel’s...

Update: Nicole Kidman has given a new interview to the LA Times on the occasion of Eyes Wide Shut‘s 25th anniversary, providing new details on the film’s creation (among them surprising notice of where her own input made the final cut). Read the original story below.

Stanley Kubrick’s final film opened 25 years ago today to largely befuddled disinterest. Even in more recent years its champions (Martin Scorsese most notable among them) seemed quixotic claiming it would someday receive appreciation à la 2001, Barry Lyndon, or The Shining. 25 years hence, Eyes Wide Shut seems nearly incontestable as one of the director’s supreme achievements––something that still feels unresolved and irreconcilable, every viewing the opportunity to glance at incomprehensible horrors among your community and within yourself.

The movie is also terrifically entertaining, and to celebrate Eyes Wide Shut‘s 25th anniversary we’ll be screening, alongside our friends at Movie Mindset,...

Napoleon biopics have a history of struggling commercially and critically, with Ridley Scott's recent attempt following suit. Stanley Kubrick's canceled epic Napoleon project hinted at the challenges of capturing the emperor's life on film. Spielberg's upcoming HBO series based on Kubrick's original concept might finally bring the ambitious vision to life.

Ridley Scott's Napoleon failed to meet expectations either critically or commercially, but the movie's performance was foreseen by legendary director Stanley Kubrick long before its release. Made on an estimated budget of $130-200 million, Napoleon made just $220 million at the global box office and scored a middling 58% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, highlighting its mixed reception. However, while the film itself had problems, its overall performance was predicted long before production began.

Despite being one of the most compelling figures in modern history, Napoleon biopics have always proved problematic. Perhaps the most successful is Abel Gance's 1927 silent film which,...

Julian Senior, the veteran Warner Bros. marketing and publicity executive in Europe who enjoyed close relationships with filmmakers including Oscar winners Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood, David Puttnam and Neil Jordan, has died. He was 85.

Senior died Jan. 1 of pneumonia and heart failure in a hospital near his home in Borehamwood, England, Conor Nolan, his friend and onetime Warner Bros. colleague, told The Hollywood Reporter.

A native of South Africa, Senior joined Warner Bros. in 1970 after an eight-year run at MGM, where he was an advertising and publicity consultant in its European Regional Office, and he stuck with the studio through 2000.

At the start, Senior helped mastermind the advertising and publicity campaign for the landmark Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange (1971), and he also worked with the famed director on The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

“He taught me how publicity, advertising and marketing operates,” Senior once said of Kubrick.

Julian Senior, a veteran international marketing executive for Warners and MGM who enjoyed a long working relationship with Stanley Kubrick and many other notable filmmakers, died Jan. 1. He was 85.

His death was announced by former Warners executive Conor Nolan.

Born in South Africa, Senior was at MGM for eight years before joining Warners in 1970 as an advertising and publicity consultant in Europe, and soon after was appointed VP of European advertising and publicity.

He became senior VP of European regional advertising and publicity in 1993, and oversaw dozens of Warner Bros. film campaigns. Senior retired in 2000 and handed over the marketing and publicity reins to Con Gornell and Nolan.

His friendship with Kubrick began in 1970 when the director finished “A Clockwork Orange.” Senior oversaw the advertising and publicity campaigns for “The Shining,” “Full Metal Jacket” and Kubrick’s final film, “Eyes Wide Shut” with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Senior once...

Even if you haven’t seen The Shining, you know about its iconic “Here’s Johnny!” scene, which is why it’s all the more enlightening to discover that it appears to be based on Victor Sjöström’s 1921 silent era masterpiece The Phantom Carriage. Just one look at this handy shot-by-shot comparison of the two respective sequences confirms it, and given that Kubrick’s brother-in-law Jan Harlan lists it among the legendary director’s 93 favorite films, it’s safe to say that Kubrick took some righteous inspiration from this milestone in horror filmmaking. Though it’s difficult and even painful to argue against the originality of one of the most notable horror set pieces of all time, this homage is not dissimilar from, say, all of the B-movie and foreign film classics that Quentin Tarantino paid tribute to in Kill Bill, or even David Fincher’s open reverence for Le...

Executive producer Jan Harlan remembers asking director Stanley Kubrick to explain the finer points of The Shining to the crew. Per the New York Daily News, he quoted Kubrick as saying, "I never explain anything, I don't understand it myself. It's a ghost film!" But The Shining is more than just a ghost film. In many ways, it is the ultimate scary movie with all the cinematic brilliance of a drama. It incorporates all manner of horror: a liminal space, a lunatic with an ax, suspense, disquietude, and the paranormal. It can also serve as a treatise on mental health, imperialism, and addiction.

Steven Spielberg is retooling Stanley Kubrick's unproduced Napoleon movie into a limited series for HBO, marking the second time Spielberg has brought an unmade Kubrick project to fruition. Spielberg previously finished Kubrick's A.I. Artificial Intelligence film after Kubrick's death, which was a great success at the box office and even garnered Academy Award nominations. Spielberg's previous success with A.I. suggests that his adaptation of Kubrick's Napoleon has the potential to be just as great, given Spielberg's talent and Kubrick's extensive research on the project.

Steven Spielberg is hard at work retooling Stanley Kubrick’s famously unproduced Napoleon movie into a limited series for HBO, and it’s not the first time that Spielberg has revived a Kubrick project. Spielberg has been working for a decade to reimagine Kubrick’s unmade Napoleon Bonaparte biopic as a seven-part miniseries for HBO (via Deadline). The Schindler’s List director has...

Stanley Kubrick felt his last movie would turn out to be his best, but this wasn't ultimately the case. For a filmmaker who had such an impact on the medium, Kubrick didn't make that many movies. Later in his career, he also became famous for the lengthy gaps between projects. For instance, it took 12 years for him to follow up Full Metal Jacket with Eyes Wide Shut. Of course, Stanley Kubrick's movie CV is a case of quality over quantity, with many of his films being considered the best of their respective genres.

2001: A Space Odyssey had a seismic impact on the sci-fi genre, and critics and viewers continue to puzzle over it. With The Shining, Kubrick set out to make one of the best horror movies of all time, and while author Stephen King would disagree, he certainly achieved that goal. Kubrick's final project turned out to be Eyes Wide Shut,...

At the Berlin Film Festival, Steven Spielberg announced that he is developing a miniseries on Napoleon Bonaparte. The series, still in the works, is based on a script from none other than Stanley Kubrick. The director is "mounting a large production" for a major premium cable channel (speculated to be HBO) in cooperation with Kubrick's former producing partner Jan Harlan and his widow Christiane Kubrick. For cinephiles, this is certainly noteworthy and exciting news. Kubrick was taken from the world too young, and any chance to experience his magic on screen, even if adapted second-hand, is worthy of attention. This announcement should also warrant caution, as Kubrick has numerous unrealized projects, ranging from basic concepts and ideas to completed screenplays, that other filmmakers have attempted to complete in the wake of his death. Considering how treacherous it is to fully enact his vision, the failure to get these projects off the ground floor is understandable.

Hot off of the awards recognition of his semi-autobiography, The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg had recently received the Golden Bear Lifetime Achievement at the Berlin Film Festival. According to Variety, the director said in a rousing speech, “I also feel a little alarmed to be told I’ve lived a lifetime because I’m not finished, I want to keep working. I want to keep learning and discovering and scaring the shit out of myself and sometimes the shit out of you. I gotta get back to some of those earlier scarier movies, but that’s another story for later on. As long as there’s joy in it for me, and as long as my audience can find joy and other human values in my films, I’m reluctant to ever say that’s a wrap.”

Spielberg, who had directed the heavy drama, Schindler’s List, and felt changed by that production,...

Steven Spielberg confirmed that he is involved in turning Stanley Kubrick's greatest unrealized project, Napoleon, into an HBO limited series. Napoleon will not be Spielberg's first attempt at reviving a Kubrick project. Spielberg also directed A.I. Artificial Intelligence in 2001, which Kubrick was unable to realize because of limited CGI technology at the time. Eventually, Kubrick handed the project off to Spielberg in 1995, with Spielberg staying close to Ian Watson and Kubrick's original story treatment.

Speaking at the Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Spielberg, who was there doing the rounds for his semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans, spoke about the upcoming Napoleon series and what they're planning to do with the Kubrick project (via Deadline). Check out what Spielberg said in the tweet below:

Steven Spielberg told #Berlinale2023 that he's adapting Stanley Kubrick's lost film 'Napoleon' into a limited series for HBO pic.twitter.com/PBqHzPQNkt — Deadline Hollywood...

One of the greatest movies to never see the big screen may finally become a reality through Steven Spielberg and HBO. During the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival, Spielberg announced in a speech that he was "mounting a large production" at the premium network to turn Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon into a seven-part limited series. Spielberg is producing the series in co-operation with Christiane Kubrick and Jan Harlan.

If you cast your mind back to 2013, you might recall that Steven Spielberg was looking to bring another of Stanley Kubrick's unmade projects to screens following his work on A.I.. In this case, it was the deceased filmmaker's passion project Napoleon. Spielberg was envisioning a miniseries for HBO rather than a movie, and it appears that it's finally moving forward.

Napoleon is quite possibly the most famous unfinished film in Kubrick’s archive. He wrote the script in 1961 after ploughing months into research and gathering thousands upon thousands of location photos, slides and pages of notes about the idea.

But MGM and United Artists, which were to have produced the eventual film, refused due to the high cost and fears that big period war epics failed to make their budgets back. Kubrick held on to the idea, writing further drafts, but never managed to get it made. Alison Castle...

Stanley Kubrick left behind several incomplete projects when he died in 1999, with "Napoléon" arguably being his most infamous one. After devoting much of his life to studying the life of French army general Napoléon Bonaparte, several issues arose while he was attempting to get it off the ground. He eventually never returned to it, but his script is far from dead. That's because Steven Spielberg, who worked with Kubrick on "A.I. Artificial Intelligence," confirmed that he was still working on adapting his lengthy script as an HBO limited series.

"We are mounting a big production with the cooperation of [widow] Christiane Kubrick and [producer] Jan Harlan for HBO based on Stanley's original script, 'Napoléon,'" the "Fablemans" director said,

Spielberg delivered these remarks during a conference at the Berlinale Film Festival. It's not likely that he will direct the miniseries, as he also said during the conference that he has not...

At the festival to receive a lifetime achievement award, the director reflects on his career.

Steven Spielberg admitted at a Berlinale press conference today that he has yet to settle on his next movie project as a director.

Spielberg said that he had just emerged from a busy period making two films back-to-back, having started writing The Fabelmans with Tony Kushner while he was still in post for West Side Story. “Those two films overlapped. Because that was such a time drain, I never had a chance to think about what I am going to do when these two movies are over.

Steven Spielberg says he’s at a loss about his next film after experiencing back-to-back productions from West Side Story and The Fabelmans.

“I wish, I wish,” Spielberg said to a crowd during a Berlin Festival press conference. “I was so involved with two films back-to-back… I never had a chance to think about what am I going to do when these two movies are over. And I sit here in front of all of you saying, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do next. I have no idea.”

While most filmmakers plan their calendars by the year, Spielberg has been so busy making West Side Story and The Fabelmans that he opted not to think beyond the finish line for those projects. There’s nothing wrong with taking time off to contemplate your next steps. In Spielberg’s line of work, each film sacrifices time, effort,...

One of Stanley Kubrick’s lost projects, a large-scale biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, has been in the works for HBO for the last seven years.

Steven Spielberg, who has been involved for at least ten years, now says he is “mounting a big production” and the project will become a seven-part series for the premium cable network.

It’s not clear whether the project is still in the development stages or has a series order.

Speaking at the Berlin Film Festival, The Fabelmans director said, “With the co-operation of Christiane Kubrick and Jan Harlan, we’re mounting a large production for HBO on based on Stanley’s original script Napoloeon. We are working on Napoleon as a seven-part limited series,” he said.

Kubrick had originally planned the film after the success of 2001 and did extensive research on the French Revolutionary leader. He had planned to film the movie across Europe,...

Later this year, Ridley Scott will release his David Scarpa-scripted, Joaquin Phoenix-led take on Napoleon Bonaparte for Apple TV+, but he’s not the only major filmmaker mounting a cinematic take on the French military commander’s life and pursuits. After being in development for some time, it looks like an adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s unproduced Napoleon script is finally moving ahead in the hands of Steven Spielberg.

As revealed at a Berlinale press conference today, The Fabelmans director said the project is in active development with the backing of Stanley Kubrick’s widow Christiane Kubrick and his long-time producer and brother-in-law Jan Harlan. The “large production” will take the form of a seven-part limited series for HBO.

Back when Kubrick was developing it, the meticulously researched war epic was courting Audrey Hepburn and Jack Nicholson, the latter of whom would go on to lead The Shining,...

Steven Spielberg told a Berlin Film Festival press conference on Tuesday that he has yet to set his next movie in the wake of back-to-back productions West Side Story and The Fabelmans.

“I wish, I wish,” the director said when quizzed on what was coming up next.

“I was so involved with two films back-to-back… I never had a chance to think about what am I going to do when these two movies are over. And I sit here in front of all of you saying, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do next. I have no idea.”

“It’s kind of a nice feeling. And it’s also a horrible feeling. It’s nice that I can actually have control of my life again and makes my own choices in my real life. But I need to work and I love to work and that’s...

With another day at the (virtual) 56th Chicago International Film Festival comes another batch to sift through. It was a lighter batch too, not just in numbers but also in runtimes. Day three consisted of two short documentaries and another scripted feature, but did the quality make up for quantity? Not quite, but at least they all had their moments.

Making its Midwest premiere at the festival is Gregory Monro’s Kubrick by Kubrick (Grade: C), a 72-minute documentary about Stanley Kubrick’s work. Here, Monro zips us from the filmmaker’s childhood to death, touching on a majority of his offerings in between. Yet it’s not so much Monro doing it: It’s Kubrick himself through interviews and recordings. The idea of making a documentary about the man isn’t inherently flawed, but this one’s approach is, lacking the insight or visuals to make it feel like...

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced today that Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick's acclaimed 1987 Vietnam War masterpiece, will be released on Ultra HD Blu-ray and Digital on September 22. Based on Gustav Hasford's 1979 novel "The Short-Timers," Full Metal Jacket was produced and directed by Kubrick from a screenplay by Kubrick, Michael Herr and Hasford.

The film stars Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard (Alien Nation), and Ed O'Ross (Dick Tracy). Jan Harlan served as Executive Producer and Philip Hobbs served as Co-Producer.

Full Metal Jacket was nominated for an Oscar&#174 at the 60th Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay for Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford.

Recognized as one of the most accomplished, innovative, and influential directors in film history, Stanley Kubrick was a perfectionist who maintained complete artistic control and privacy during the shooting, and even the subsequent marketing of his movies.

“Weird,” as a presumptive aesthetic and assumed attitude, has been plundered to the point of signifying almost nothing. Thus it was a little system shock bearing witness to Lech Majewski’s truly, madly, unfathomably weird Valley of the Gods at last year’s EnergaCAMERIMAGE, only knowing it concerned Native American mythology, John Malkovich as a reclusive trillionaire, and Josh Hartnett as his biographer “whose imagination has the power to alter reality.” That is not selling even one-third of it, which, if forced to compress to an elevator pitch, I would describe as somewhere between the existential concerns of The Tree of Life, Southland Tales‘ sci-fi satire, and the charming gaudiness of a late Alain Resnais picture. (It’s also produced by Kubrick compatriot Jan Harlan and features Keir Dullea in a supporting role; draw your conclusions as to its other allusions.)

So: precisely the kind of film one sees at...

Well Go USA has acquired the North American rights to Lech Majewski’s Valley of the Gods. The company is set to release the surrealist drama starring Josh Hartnett and John Malkovich in theaters and on digital platforms on August 11.

Known for pushing the envelope when it comes to dreamlike visuals and fantasy, Majewski’s Valley of the Gods contrasts opposing social extremes — namely abundance and poverty – through three separate storylines. The story follows a middle-class writer, an eccentric trillionaire and members of a struggling nearby Navajo community. After a difficult divorce, copywriter John Ecas (Harnett) takes on the biography of the richest man on earth (John Malkovich), who is both his boss and the man behind a plan to mine sacred Navajo lands for uranium. Things take a turn when modern advancement runs afoul of the...

Valley of the Gods

Polish director Lech Majewski’s long gestating art-house sci-fi film Valley of the Gods should finally pop up somewhere in 2018. Majewki produced his most ambitious project to date alongside Filip Jan Rymsza, with co-producers Jan Harlan, Alyssa Swanzey Natalia Safran and Carla Rosen-Vacher. Majewski resumes working with his Field of Dogs (2014) Dp Pawel Tybora, and amassed a noted international cast included Josh Hartnett, Charlotte Rampling, John Malkovich, Keri Dullea and John Rhys-Davies. Majewski’s handsome 2011 title The Mill & the Cross premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and 2004’s The Garden of Earthly Delights bowed at the Rome Film Festival.…...

“Burning Secret,” the long lost Stanley Kubrick script that was discovered over the summer, is being auctioned off later this month at Bonhams New York, Deadline reports. The original manuscript is expected to sell in the $20,000 region, so now the question remains whether or not anyone in the film industry will jump at the chance to buy the script and turn it into a feature film.

As reported earlier this year, “Burning Secret” is an adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s novella of the same name. Kubrick co-wrote the script with Calder Willingham in 1956, shortly before making “Paths of Glory.” The script was discovered by Bangor University film professor Nathan Abrams, and while many would assume studios would jump at the chance to make the film (Netflix just released Orson Welles’ long-delayed “The Other Side of the Wind”), the film’s subject matter is controversial.

Abrams has described “Burning Secret” as “the inverse of ‘Lolita,...

Long-lost Stanley Kubrick script Burning Secret is up for auction at Bonhams New York on 20 November. The original manuscript is expected to fetch in the region of $20,000.

The script, which has been certified by Kubrick experts, is said to be virtually complete, begging the question, would a film or TV company take it on today? We’ve just had a semi-complete Orson Welles movie pieced together, after all.

Entitled Burning Secret, the script is an adaptation of the 1913 novella by the acclaimed and often-adapted Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. In Kubrick’s adaptation of the story, a suave insurance salesman befriends a 10-year-old boy at a spa resort so he is able seduce the child’s married mother. In Zweig’s original, the story is set in Austria but Kubrick’s script transfers the story to America of the 1950s with American characters.

The visionary filmmaker wrote it in 1956 with American...

Stanley Kubrick had a dedicated assistant, and not one who simply held the master’s cinematic paintbrushes. He staffed research, production, post-production and marketing departments all on his own. Tony Zierra’s brisk documentary teaches us much about a genius director, the assistant that devoted himself entirely to the director’s mission, and the nature of work and ambition.

Filmworker

DVD

Kino Lorber

2018 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 93 min. / Stanley Kubrick’s Unsung Assistant / Street Date September 11, 2018 / 29.95

Starring: Leon Vitali

Produced by Elizabeth Yoffe, Tony Zierra

Cinematography,

Film Editor,

Director Tony Zierra

The cult of Stanley Kubrick is holding firm, and definitely widening as we learn more about his ultra meticulous lifestyle, habits and dedication to his art. He didn’t turn out many features but his filmography contains an impressive number of masterpieces. Although war themes figure strongly in almost half of his films, Kubrick moved between genres, scoring with crime thrillers,...

Strand to focus on ‘major challenges of visual productions in the fantasy genre’.

Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) will focus on ‘major challenges of visual productions in the fantasy genre’ for the Nifff Extended programme at its 18th edition this summer (July 6-14).

Newly-announced speakers at the symposium will include Jan Harlan, executive producer for Stanley Kubrick, writer-directors Timur Bekmambetov and Olga Kharina and YouTube creator François Theurel (who goes under the name Le Fossoyeur de films).

Special events include ‘Focus On Avengers: Infinity War’ featuring the film’s VFX supervisors, and ‘Bazelevs: From Film to Screen Movies’, in which...

Leon Vitali‬ with Anne-Katrin Titze on Stanley Kubrick and the casting of Danny Lloyd for The Shining: "I could make that boy [David Morley in Barry Lyndon] focus." Photo: David Ninh

Tony Zierra's exhaustive Filmworker, which had its world première in last year's Cannes Film Festival (Christopher Nolan will present 2001: A Space Odyssey on a remastered 70mm print this year), tackles the volatile and loving relationship of the most indispensable person in Stanley Kubrick's world. Through interviews that include Matthew Modine, R Lee Ermey, and Tim Colceri on Full Metal Jacket, Marie Richardson and Lisa Leone on Eyes Wide Shut, Ryan O'Neal on Barry Lyndon, Danny Lloyd on The Shining, and executive producer Jan Harlan (nephew of Veit Harlan and brother of Christiane Kubrick) we learn about the all-encompassing role Leon Vitali ended up playing in the life of the demanding film director.

Leon Vitali as Lord Bullingdon: "As an actor,...

As Cannes director Thierry Fremaux sought to bolster his auteur lineup this year, he brought in Martin Scorsese to open the festival with his “The Aviator” star, Cannes jury president Cate Blanchett. The New York filmmaker also introduced his Film Foundation-restored 1946 Cannes Classics entry “Enamorada,” Emilio Fernández’s Mexican revolution romance starring icon María Félix, who became a favorite of Jean Renoir and Luis Buñuel. “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler showed his blockbuster at the Cannes outdoor cinema on the beach, and submitted to over 90 minutes of friendly grilling from American buddy Elvis Mitchell.

But the biggest crowd showed up for “Dunkirk” writer-director Christopher Nolan, who made his first foray to Cannes for a lengthy public conversation and a screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

Nolan will introduce a Sunday 70mm Cannes showing of a new print of Stanley Kubrick’s movie with the director’s daughter Katharina, her uncle...

As Cannes director Thierry Fremaux sought to bolster his auteur lineup this year, he brought in Martin Scorsese to open the festival with his “The Aviator” star, Cannes jury president Cate Blanchett. The New York filmmaker also introduced his Film Foundation-restored 1946 Cannes Classics entry “Enamorada,” Emilio Fernández’s Mexican revolution romance starring icon María Félix, who became a favorite of Jean Renoir and Luis Buñuel. “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler showed his blockbuster at the Cannes outdoor cinema on the beach, and submitted to over 90 minutes of friendly grilling from American buddy Elvis Mitchell.

But the biggest crowd showed up for “Dunkirk” writer-director Christopher Nolan, who made his first foray to Cannes for a lengthy public conversation and a screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

Nolan will introduce a Sunday 70mm Cannes showing of a new print of Stanley Kubrick’s movie with the director’s daughter Katharina, her uncle...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Warner Bros. Pictures will debut an ‘unrestored’ 70mm print of the director’s groundbreaking science fiction epic at the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival. Widely considered among the greatest films of the 20th century, “2001: A Space Odyssey” will return to select U.S. theatres in 70mm beginning May 18, 2018.

Set for Saturday, May 12, the world premiere will be held during the Cannes Classics section of the Festival, featuring an introduction by award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan. The screening will also be attended by members of Stanley Kubrick’s family, including his daughter, Katharina Kubrick, and longstanding producing partner and brother-in-law, Jan Harlan.

For the first time since the original release, this 70mm print was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative. This is a true photochemical film recreation. There are no digital tricks, remastered effects,...

Also includes Jane Fonda, Alice Guy-Blaché doc, 2001: A Space Odyssey screening.

The line-up for Cannes Classics section of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival (May 8-19) includes documentaries about Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman and Jane Fonda.

Mark Cousins will present his video essay The Eyes of Orson Welles, which examines the pictorial world of the Citizen Kane director.

Margarethe von Trotta’s Searching For Ingmar Bergman is one of three films to celebrate the centenary of the Swedish master at Cannes, alongside Jane Magnusson’s Bergman – A Year in a Life and a screening of The Seventh Seal.

Jane Fonda will...

Due to the childish spat between Cannes and Netflix, it means we won’t be seeing the most monumental release of 2018, Orson Welles’ posthumous film The Other Side of the Wind, premiere at the French film festival. However, even if the streaming giant won’t be bringing the film (nor Morgan Neville’s Welles documentary on its making), Cannes will hold the premiere of another Welles-related project.

Announced today as part of the Cannes Classics lineup, Mark Cousins’ The Eyes of Orson Welles, which explores the drawings, paintings, and early works of the Citizen Kane director, will premiere during the festival. Also amongst the lineup is two Ingmar Bergman documentaries tied to his centenary, as well as the previously-announced 70mm unrestored version of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Check out the full lineup below, which also includes new restorations of films by Jacques Rivette, Djibril Diop Mambety, Agnès Varda, Vittorio De Sica,...

Fifty years later, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” remains one of the most essential theater experiences a cinephile can have in his or her lifetime. Warner Bros. is gearing up to debut an unrestored 70mm print of the science-fiction landmark at Cannes next month, and the official trailer has premiered the jaw-dropping first footage. The unrestored print has the backing of none other than Christopher Nolan.

“For the first time since the original release, this 70mm print was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative,” Nolan explains. “This is a true photochemical film recreation. There are no digital tricks, remastered effects, or revisionist edits. This is the unrestored film – that recreates the cinematic event that audiences experienced fifty years ago.”

The trailer begins with the iconic image of Hal’s red eye and includes a montage of so many of Kubrick’s iconic shots...

The Cannes Film Festival will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” with the world premiere of an unrestored 70mm print, introduced by Christopher Nolan.

The event is set for May 12 as part of the Cannes Classics program. The screening will also be attended by members of Kubrick’s family, including his daughter Katharina Kubrick and his longtime producing partner and brother-in-law Jan Harlan.

Nolan, who will be attending the festival for the first time, will also participate in a Cannes masterclass on May 13, during which he will discuss his filmography and his passion for Kubrick’s work.

For the first time since the original release, this 70mm print was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative. Nolan worked closely with the team at Warner Bros. Pictures throughout the mastering process.

Christiane Kubrick said, “I’m delighted that ‘2001: A Space...

Unrestored print will play to mark the film’s 50th anniversary.

This year’s Cannes Classics programme will screen an unrestored 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film.

The event on May 12 will be preceded by an introduction from Christopher Nolan, who has been a regular advocate of using film prints over digital. Nolan worked with the Warner Bros. Pictures team on the mastering process.

The print that will be used for the screening was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative, a photochemical film...

Christopher Nolan is finally heading to the Cannes Film Festival. The director has never hit the Croisette with one of his movies, but the world premiere of a new print of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” will bring the auteur favorite to the 2018 edition of the fest. The festival’s Cannes Classics section has announced an unrestored 70mm cut of Kubrick’s magnum opus will debut on May 12. Nolan will introduce the screening, which will be attended by Kubrick’s daughter, Katharina, and his longtime producing partner and brother-in-law, Jan Harlan.

In addition to presenting “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Nolan will stick around the 2018 Cannes Film Festival to participate in a Cannes Masterclass on May 13. The discussion will find the “Dunkirk” filmmaker looking back at his own career and talking about his love of Kubrick. The event marks the 50th anniversary of the movie.

“One of my earliest...

Christopher Nolan will be heading to Cannes for the first time this year, but not with a film of his own.

The director will be on the Croisette to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, introducing the world premiere of an unrestored 70mm print edition of the film.

The screening will take place May 12 and is set to be attended by Kubrick's family, including his daughter Katharina Kubrick and longtime producing partner Jan Harlan.

"One of my earliest memories of cinema is seeing Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, in 70mm,...

Here’s an event to make classic movie buffs drool. Christopher Nolan will present the world premiere of a mastered 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 classic 2001: A Space Odyssey at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The 50th anniversary screening of the movie on Saturday May 12 will sit within the festival’s Cannes Classics strand. Nolan, who will somewhat incredibly be attending Cannes for the very first time (it’s quite a surprise that a cinephile such as Nolan hasn’t worshipped at the high altar of cinema before), will introduce the movie. The screening is also due to be attended by members of Kubrick’s family including his daughter Katharina Kubrick and the filmmaker’s long time producing partner and brother-in-law Jan Harlan.

Dunkirk director Nolan will then participate in a Cannes Masterclass, set for the Sunday, during which he will discuss his career and Kubrick’s influence on his work.

Christopher Nolan will be heading to Cannes for the first time this year, but not with a film of his own.

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The screening will take place May 12 and is set to be attended by Kubrick's family, including his daughter Katharina Kubrick and longtime producing partner Jan Harlan.

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“The Beauty Of Irony”

By Raymond Benson

Leave it to The Criterion Collection to present a jaw-dropping, eye-popping Blu-ray release of Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 masterpiece that many critics have called one of the most beautiful films ever made. While the picture received many accolades upon its initial release, including Oscar nominations for Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay—and wins for Cinematography, Production Design, Costumes, and Adapted Score—it was again one those Kubrick films that was controversial and misunderstood at first. It was not a financial success in the U.S., and yet today it’s considered one of the auteur’s greatest works.

After such titles as Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, it may have seemed to be an odd choice for Kubrick to make a picture such as Barry Lyndon. One must look back to the period between 2001 and Clockwork to understand it. Kubrick...