Scraps from the loft

GEORGE CARLIN: DOIN’ IT AGAIN (1990) – Transcript

So you want to talk about it? Oh yeah. It all started in 1977. I mean, that's when I started doing it regularly. How many times have you done it? Six times. I've done it six times. Why do you do it? I don't know. It's like I can't help myself. What does your family think? Thank God my...

GEORGE ORWELL’S ‘1984’ – Introduction by Robert Harris

Introduction to the official 60th anniversary edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four

SUPERMAN (1978): THE PACKAGE – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael's review of 'Superman' (1978). Published in 'The New Yorker', January 1, 1979

PAULINE KAEL ON ‘STAR WARS’

Pauline Kael reviews George Lucas' Star Wars. Published in 'The New Yorker', September 26, 1977

RICKY GERVAIS: OUT OF ENGLAND 2 (2010) – Full Transcript

Full transcript of HBO stand-up special 'Ricky Gervais: Out of England 2'. Recorded before a live audience at the Chicago Theatre in Chicago

AMY SCHUMER: THE LEATHER SPECIAL (2017) – Full Transcript

Comic sensation Amy Schumer riffs on sex, dating and the absurdities of fame in a bold and uncensored stand-up set at Denver's Bellco Theater

CELEBRATING ‘INDEPENDENCE DAY’ (1996)

'Starlog' magazine correspondents report on the Independence Day War

JIM GAFFIGAN: CINCO (2017) – Full Transcript

Full transcript of Jim Gaffigan's fifth Netflix original stand up special Cinco. Recorded at the Palace Theater in Columbus, Ohio

PAUL SCHRADER ON ‘TAXI DRIVER’ – Interview by Richard Thompson

TAXI DRIVER'S SCREENWRITER Paul Schrader interviewed by Richard Thompson Richard Thompson is grateful to Jack Shafer for his help with this interview, which took place in L.A. on January 26 and 29, 1976. Paul Schrader, 30, is probably best known in Hollywood for selling his first screenplay, Yakuza, for $300,000. He is considered one of the new breed of screenwriters which includes...

JIM JEFFERIES: I SWEAR TO GOD (2009) – Full Transcript

In this HBO special, 'I Swear to God', Jim Jefferies discusses religion and racism, his own family and childhood, the idiocy of no-smoking signs, sluts vs. studs, drugs and alcohol, and tells a very embarrassing story about what happened to him after purchasing some adult entertainment material

«LA VERGOGNA DI BERGMAN»: DAL SILENZIO DI DIO AL MARE DEI MORTI

Ingmar Bergman ha definito il suo ultimo film, che ha per titolo Skammen (La vergogna) una storia di gente che non ha nessuna fede, nessuna convinzione politica, che non agisce secondo canoni e regole politiche

28 Days Later: An Interview with Danny Boyle (2003)

Director Danny Boyle's latest feature, 28 Days Later, spins contempo­rary paranoia regarding disease and viral infection into a frightening tale of post-apocalyptic horror, survival, and rampaging zombies.

ROBERT BRESSON, POSSIBLY – INTERVIEW BY PAUL SCHRADER (1976)

In 1972 Robert Bresson, in response to my recently pub­lished book, Transcendental Style in Film, wrote me, “I have always been very surprised not to recognize myself in the image formed by those who are really interested in me" It's equally a shock for a critic to meet a director whom he has respected from a distance and whose...

2001: FUORI NELLO SPAZIO MA DENTRO LA VITA

2001: IL FILM DI STANLEY KUBRICK Il viaggio interplanetario è un viaggio biologico di Lino Curci Sono giorni di scienza, non di fantascienza. Per la prima volta, con l’«Apollo 8», ritorno ha varcato il confine che separa il campo gravitazionale della Terra dalla zona in cui agiscono le forze dì attrazione di un altro corpo celeste: il geo­centrismo, spodestato scientificamente da Galileo,...

LOUIS C.K.: HILARIOUS (2010) – Full Transcript

In this unique and dynamic live concert experience, Louis C.K.'s exploration of life after 40 destroys politically correct images of modern life with thoughts we have all had...but would rarely admit to

PORCILE O NO tiriamo le somme su PASOLINI

Piero Sanavìo intervista Pier Paolo Pasolini per la rivista 'Il Dramma', Settembre 1969

IN MARGINE AL FILM DI PASOLINI ‘MEDEA’

Che cosa è la Medea? È la rievocazione mitica, nostalgicamente ricomposta, del tempo della religione, cioè di «un rapporto di tipo religioso con la realtà, cioè considerare la realtà non naturale»

Il bel volo di PAPILLON da Mauriac a Polanski

Papillon: una farfalla che vola alto, come un’aquila. Il lungo romanzo autobiografico dell’ex-ergastolano Henri Charrière sta battendo il record assoluto dei best-sellers

LOUIS C.K.: SHAMELESS (2007) – Full Transcript

Please welcome Louis C.K.! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thanks, that's very nice. Hello, everybody. How are ya? Woo! Good, thanks for- thank you, oh, good. Thanks, thanks for coming, thanks for being here. Thanks for not dying before you got here. Which could've happened. - Thanks for getting through the traffic. I drove here, and...

GEORGE ORWELL: 1984 – Introduzione, antologia critica e bibliografia

Introduzione, antologia critica e bibliografia a cura di Aldo Chiaruttini Arnoldo Mondatori Editore, Oscar Mondatori, Dicembre 1983 George Orwell La vita e l'opera George Orwell è il nome che lo scrittore inglese adottò negli anni trenta, in occasione della pubblicazione delle sue prime opere. Nato nel 1903 a Motihari in India, quando quell'immenso paese era un possedimento dell'Inghilterra, il suo vero...

FUTURISTIC ‘BLADE RUNNER’ – Review by Janet Maslin

The view of the future offered by Ridley Scott's muddled yet mesmerizing 'Blade Runner' is as intricately detailed as anything a science-fiction film has yet envisioned

JUVENTUS-REAL MADRID: LE EUROSFIDE

CONDUCE 5-4 LA JUVE In Coppa dei Campioni/Champions League, Juve e Real si sono sfidate in 9 occasioni e la Juve ha potuto gioire 5 volte contro le 4 dei rivali. I blancos hanno però vinto l’unica finale, quella del 1998. In semifinale sempre bene i bianconeri (2-0), parità nei quarti (1-1), negli ottavi (1-1) e nella fase a gironi...

TAXI DRIVER: UNDERGROUND MAN – Review by Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael Taxi Driver is the fevered story of an outsider in New York—a man who can’t find any point of entry into human society. Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), the protagonist of Martin Scorsese’s new film, from a script by Paul Schrader, can’t find a life. He’s an ex-Marine from the Midwest who takes a job driving a...

BILL BURR: I’M SORRY YOU FEEL THAT WAY (2014) – Full Transcript

All right, thank you! Thank you very much! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How are you? What's going on? Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here in the greater Atlanta, Georgia, area, this oasis. It's nice to be here. I don't know why I came here in June. It's nice to be here. Wasn't thinking. Fucking...

BILL BURR: YOU PEOPLE ARE ALL THE SAME (2012) – Full Transcript

Ladies and gentlemen: Bill Burr! All right. Thank you! Thank you. Thank you, sir. How are ya? How's it going? All right. All right, all right, all right, all right. All right, everybody settle down. I wanna get a gun. I do. I really do. I never had that feeling before till I moved out to...

PERSONA (1966) – Review by Richard Corliss

Richard Corliss reviews Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" for Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Summer, 1967)

THE LEOPARD [IL GATTOPARDO, 1963] – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael reviews Luchino Visconti's 'The leopard' (Il Gattopardo). Published in The New Yorker, September 19, 1983

EXISTENTIAL ETHICS. WHERE THE PATHS OF GLORY LEAD

Stanley Kubrick's 'Paths of Glory' (1957) is much more than an antiwar film; it is as much about the necessary absurdity of the human condition as about the contingent horror of war

DAVE CHAPPELLE: FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH (2004) – Full Transcript

Chappelle lets loose on such topics as black celebrities, what it's like to have raunchy fans of his TV show approach him while he's trying to enjoy Disneyland with his kids, Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant and crackheads, of course

DAVE CHAPPELLE: KILLIN THEM SOFTLY (2000) – Full Transcript

Wooo! Ya'll gone make me lose my mind. Up in here! Up in here! Y'all gone make me throw her out. Up in here! Up in here! Y'all gone make me act a fool. Up in here! Up in here! Y'all gone make me lose my cool. Up in here! Up in here! From the historic Lincoln Theater in...

ORSON WELLES: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1967)

Our interviewer is England's eminent drama critic Kenneth Tynan, whom readers will remember as the author of previous Playboy Interviews with Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole, as well as several trenchant Playboy articles. Of this month's larger-than-life subject, Tynan writes: "The performing arts have now enjoyed the professional services of George Orson Welles for 35 years—ever since 1931, when he...

JUVENTUS-AMBURGO 0-1: FINE DI UN SOGNO

Dieci anni dopo la sfida di Belgrado con l’Ajax, la squadra bianconera ha sorprendentemente fallito la sua seconda finale nel più prestigioso torneo continentale - Un gol di Magath è bastato per assicurare ai tedeschi dell'Amburgo il trofeo

HEYSEL, 29 MAGGIO 1985 – JUVENTUS-LIVERPOOL: LE PAGINE DI ‘REPUBBLICA’

La tragedia dello stadio Heysel del 29 maggio 1985 raccontata nelle pagine del quotidiano la 'Repubblica'

MARTIN SCORSESE: HE HAS OFTEN WALKED ‘MEAN STREETS’

Martin Scorsese interview with Guy Flatley for 'The New York Times', December 1973

JUVENTUS-LIVERPOOL 1-0: OMAGGIO AI TIFOSI

Più degli inglesi, i bianconeri volevano la Coppa inseguita da sempre. L’hanno vinta in una serata crudele per dedicarla anche a chi non cera più

EDDIE GRIFFIN: YOU CAN TELL ‘EM I SAID IT! (2011) – Transcript

Ladies and gentlemen, The one and only, The emperor of comedy... Sir Eddie Griffin I want to fuck Michelle Obama. I need her on my team. I'm waiting on Obama to fuck up. That nigga slip up, I'ma slide right in. What's happening, Michelle? You like comedy? That's some fine chocolate motherfucker. You understand me? I didn't vote for Obama...

SCARFACE (1983) – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael reviews Brian De Palma's 'Scarface'

BLADE RUNNER AND SARTRE: THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) combines film noir and science fiction to tell a story that questions what it means to be human

ALIEN (1979) – Review by Brian McFarlane for ‘Cinema Papers’

Brian McFarlane reviews Ridley Scott's sci-fi movie 'Alien'. Published in 'Cinema Papers' magazine, December 1979 - January 1980 issue

H.R. GIGER: BEHIND THE ALIEN FORMS

Interview with Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger, designer of the monsters in Ridley Scott's sci-fi movie 'Alien'

8½: CONFESSIONS OF A MOVIE DIRECTOR – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael reviews Federico Fellini's '8½'

INGMAR BERGMAN: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1964)

A Candid Conversation with Sweden's One-man New Wave of Cinematic Sorcery

RIDLEY SCOTT: DIRECTING ‘ALIEN’ THROUGH AN ARTIST’S EYES

The Making of "Alien". Interview with director Ridley Scott. Published in 'Starlog' n. 26, September 1979

BILL BURR: WALK YOUR WAY OUT (2017) – Full Transcript

Netflix special filmed on October 21, 2016 at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville

HEYSEL, 29 MAGGIO 1985: LA PARTITA DELLA MORTE

di Marino Bartoletti BRUXELLES - Nel derby del dolore anche la Juventus ha ora le sue stimmate di sangue. Maggio 1949, Superga: il cielo si abbatte sul Grande Torino e lo rapisce ai suoi tifosi e al mondo. Maggio 1985, Bruxelles: la follia omicida di una barbara orda di inglesi e la criminale inefficienza della polizia belga macchiano coi colori...

ALIEN (1979): A GOTHIC SET IN SPACE – Review by Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby reviews Ridley Scott Si-Fi movie 'Alien' (1979). Published in The New York Times, May 25, 19

ALIEN (1979): INTERVIEW WITH SCREEWRITER DAN O’BANNON

by Bob Martin Vistas of unearthly beauty. . . A creature of inescapable terror. . . It’s SF cinema’s first outer space gothic thriller In some distant region of uncharted space, the battered starship Nostromo carries seven astronauts, five men and two women, on a commercial voyage. They are independent prospectors—traveling from planet to planet, extracting oil and precious minerals from...

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: WHIPPED – Review by Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael The marketing executives are the new high priests of the movie business. It's natural. They’re handling important sums of money. And they dispense the money dramatically, in big campaigns that flood out over the country. It’s not unusual for more to be spent on marketing a picture than on making it, and this could become commonplace. (Everybody...

RAGING BULL: RELIGIOUS PULP, OR THE INCREDIBLE HULK – Review by Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael As Jake la Motta, the former middleweight boxing champ, in Raging Bull, Robert De Niro wears scar tissue and a big, bent nose that deform his face. It’s a miracle that he didn't grow them—he grew' everything else. He developed a thick muscled neck and a fighter s body, and for the scenes of the broken, drunken...

HEYSEL, 29 MAGGIO 1985: OLOCAUSTO

Un gruppo di criminali di Liverpool ha tramutato in tragedia la finalissima fra i «reds» e la Juve bruciando decine di vite sull’altare dello sport

JUVENTUS-LIVERPOOL 1-0: UNA VITTORIA, UN INCUBO

Cabrini, Scirea e Tardelli sono i tre alfieri juventini che hanno vinto tutto ciò che c’era da vincere al mondo. Ma come gioirne oggi?

LOUIS C.K.: OH MY GOD (2013) – Full Transcript

'Oh My God' is the fifth comedy special performed by Louis C.K.. It premiered on HBO on April 13, 2013. Filmed in Phoenix, Arizona at the Celebrity Theatre

KILLING HITLER’S HANGMAN

Reinhard Heydrich's international ‘fame’ rose considerably as a result of his 1942 assassination which quickly became the subject of countless movies and books

LOUIS C.K.: LIVE AT THE COMEDY STORE (2015) – Transcript

The comic puts his trademark hilarious/thought-provoking spin on finding a bat in his kitchen, seeing rats having sex, Boston accents and dead pets.

APOCALYPSE NOW: A CLASH OF TWO CULTURES

Vittorio Storaro recalls the photographic challenges he confronted during the tumultuous production of Francis Ford Coppola's hallucinatory Vietnam War epic 'Apocalypse Now'

SPARTACUS AND THE SECOND PART OF THE SOUL

by Gordon Braden Roman History at the Movies At the end of Ridley Scott’s film Gladiator (2000), the mortally wounded Maximus (Russell Crowe), having killed the psychopathic emperor Commodus in gladiatorial combat in the Colosseum, speaks to the suddenly silent crowd: “There was a dream that was Rome. It shall be realized. These are the wishes of Marcus Aurelius.” Marcus was...

BILL HICKS: RELENTLESS (1992) – Transcript

Recorded in 1991 at the Centaur Theatre during the annual Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Canada

DANIEL TOSH: HAPPY THOUGHTS (2011) – Transcript

Daniel Tosh performs in front of a live San Francisco audience in this stand-up special for Comedy Central, and touches on topics ranging from sports and pop culture, to religion and politics

PATRICE O’NEAL: ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (2011) – Full Transcript

Full transcript of 'Elephant in the Room', stand up special by comedian Patrice O'Neal, released by Comedy Central. It premiered on February 19, 2011

KATT WILLIAMS: LIVE (2006) – Full Transcript

(POLICE SIREN BLARING) (POLICE RADIO CHATTERING) (CROWD CLAMORING) CHRIS: Thank you. 100.9 the Wiz. Blazing hip hop and R and B. Jamming in the building right now. Man, it's just an honor to have this guy just stop by just to say hi and say what's up to Cincinnati. My man Katt Williams in the house. Say, Katt, you...

RICHARD PRYOR: LIVE IN CONCERT (1979) – Full Transcript

Filmed in Long Beach, California on December 10, 1978 Richard Pryor: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, thank you. Thank you much. Good evening. Waiting for the people to get from the bathroom. People are in there pissing, wait, the shit done started. Damn. What's happening, blood. Right on....

RICHARD PRYOR: LIVE ON THE SUNSET STRIP (1982) – Full Transcript

Comedy legend Richard Pryor touches on all subjects, ranging from women to his trip to Africa, and even his scandalous past: the brothel run by his grandmother, his cocaine addiction, and the infamous incident in which he lit himself on fire.

TREVOR NOAH: AFRAID OF THE DARK (2017) – Full Transcript

- - Wow. Wow. Oh, wow. What's happening, New York? Yeah! Oh, this is amazing. Thank you for coming out. We're gonna have fun tonight. Welcome to it, people. This is us. Can I tell you for a second? This has been my dream since I started stand-up comedy, doing a special in New York City. This is it!...

STRANGE DAYS (1995) – Sight and Sound Review

Philip Strick reviews 'Strange Days', the 1995 science fiction thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Published in 'Sight and Sound', January 1996

JIM JEFFERIES: BARE (2014) – Full Transcript

Nothing is sacred in this show from Australian comic Jim Jefferies, whether it’s the mother of his child, auditioning disabled actors, or gun control.

THE WHITE BALLOON (BADKONAKE SEFID, 1995) – Sight and Sound Review

Sight and Sound review of 'The White Balloon', a 1995 Iranian film directed by Jafar Panahi, with a screenplay by Abbas Kiarostami

DAVE CHAPPELLE: DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS (2017) – Full Transcript

Chappelle gets real about racially charged run-ins, celebrity scandals and fatherly dilemmas in a searing stand-up set at Austin's Moody Theatre

TOM SEGURA: MOSTLY STORIES (2016) – Full Transcript

Comedian Tom Segura savors wondrous strip-club names, basks in foul-mouthed heckling and shares life's dirty truths in an irreverent stand-up special

BILL BURR: LET IT GO (2010) – Full transcript

Burr's special 'Let it Go', recorded at The Fillmore in San Francisco and premiered on Comedy Central on September 18, 2010

TWELVE MONKEYS: EXTREMITIES

Debris and nightmare, madness and time preoccupy director Terry Gilliam in 'Twelve Monkeys’, with a screenplay by the writer of 'Blade Runner’. David Morgan visited the set

SEVEN (1995): THE ALLURE OF DECAY

Revulsion against the body haunts the new film by David Fincher as it does so much current cinema. What makes ‘Seven' distinctive? Amy Taubin explains

SEVEN (1995) – Sight and Sound Review

by John Wrathall Homicide detective William Somerset is joined for his last seven days on the job by his replacement, David Mills, who has just moved to the city. When the discovery of a man who has apparently been forced to eat until he bursts (Gluttony) is followed by the bleeding to death of a rich lawyer, whose body is...

CASINO: MARTIN SCORSESE’S TESTAMENT

What has drawn Scorsese to mix a mafia story with a Biblical epic? The director explains

GEORGE CARLIN: JAMMING IN NEW YORK (1992) – Testo italiano completo

Ciao, grazie. Grazie. Grazie. Grazie molte. Grazie. Grazie a tutti. Grazie a tutti. Grazie e un saluto a New York. Ciao New York e grazie. Si'. Ok. E' passato un po' di tempo dall'ultima volta che sono stato qui... ...e nel frattempo sono successe un paio di cose. Volevo parlare un po' della guerra nel Golfo Persico. Grandi attività...

GEORGE CARLIN: YOU ARE ALL DISEASED (1999) – Testo italiano completo

Siete gentili, grazie! Grazie mille, lo apprezzo. Grazie mille, grazie a tutti, grazie! Lo apprezzo... Grazie, grazie... Allora, lasciate che vi chieda una cosa... ...lasciate che vi chieda, come state tutti stasera, eh? Ottimo, be', andate affanculo! Cerco solo di farvi sentire a casa vostra. Ora, sentite, sono stato qua fuori tutto questo tempo e non mi sono ancora...

GEORGE CARLIN: IT’S BAD FOR YA! (2008) – Testo italiano completo

Grazie, grazie, grazie! Mi piacerebbe iniziare... Mi piacerebbe... grazie, grazie! Mi piacerebbe iniziare dicendo: affanculo Lance Armstrong! Affanculo lui e le sue palle e le sue biciclette e i suoi steroidi e le sue maglie gialle... ...e la stupida espressione vuota sul suo volto, sono stanco di quello stronzo. E già che ci siamo, affanculo anche Tiger Woods! Un'altra...

JIM JEFFERIES: FREEDUMB (2016) – Full Transcript

Jim Jefferies talks about family life and challenges the idea of American freedom live on stage in Nashville, Tennessee

EDDIE MURPHY: DELIRIOUS (1983) – Full Transcript

Transcript of Eddie Murphy's 'Delirious', stand-up comedy HBO special released August 30, 1983.

DAVE CHAPPELLE: THE AGE OF SPIN (2017) – Full Transcript

This is Dave. He tells dirty jokes for a living. That stare is where most of his hard work happens. It signifies a profound train of thought, the alchemist's fire that transforms fear and tragedy into levity and livelihood. Dave calls that look "the trance." ♪ Play me ♪ ♪ Buy me ♪ ♪ Workinonit ♪ ♪ Tune up...

AMICI MIEI (1975) – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

Amici miei è un'opera crudelissima e scanzonata, cattiva come una beffa del Lasca e cupa come il racconto d'un filosofo pessimista

SEDOTTA E ABBANDONATA (1964) – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

di Giovanni Grazzini Con Sedotta e abbandonata gli affezionati spettatori di Divorzio all'italiana si ritrovano in una Sicilia dominata da un grottesco senso dell'onore, nuovamente si muovono in un clima cupo e afoso con bagliori terrificanti, in cui scoppiano feroci contrasti familiari, e per la seconda volta s'imbattono in una Stefania Sandrelli concupita da un focoso isolano. Simile la cornice,...

GEORGE CARLIN: BACK IN TOWN (1996) – Full transcript

Back in Town is George Carlin's 15th album and ninth HBO special. It was also released on CD on September 17, 1996. This was also his first of many performances at the Beacon Theater in New York City "Abortion" Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck...

LOUIS C.K.: 2017 – Full transcript

Louis C.K. muses on abortion, religion, eternal love, giving dogs drugs, email fights, teachers and more in a live performance from Washington, D.C.

GEORGE CARLIN: JAMMING IN NEW YORK (1992) – Full Transcript

Jammin' in New York is George Carlin's 14th album and eighth HBO special, recorded on April 24 and 25, 1992, at the Paramount Theater, on the grounds of Madison Square Garden in New York City. "Rockets and Penises in the Persian Gulf" Thank you and hello New York! Okay, it’s been a little while, it’s been a little while since I’ve...

GEORGE CARLIN: YOU ARE ALL DISEASED (1999) – Full Transcript

You Are All Diseased is the 16th album and 11th HBO live broadcast stand-up special by comedian George Carlin, recorded on February 6, 1999 at the Beacon Theater in New York City

FULL METAL JACKET: RECENSIONE DI FERNALDO DI GIAMMATTEO

Saggio critico di Fernaldo Di Giammatteo su "Full Metal Jacket", pubblicato nel numero monografico su Stanley Kubrick della collana Il Castoro Cinema

JIM JEFFERIES ON GUN CONTROL [FULL TRANSCRIPT]

Comedian Jim Jefferies breaks down the absurdity of America's obsession with guns in his Netflix special 'Bare'

ARANCIA MECCANICA – Analisi di Enrico Ghezzi, Il Castoro Cinema

Saggio critico di Enrico Ghezzi su "Arancia Meccanica", pubblicato nel numero monografico su Stanley Kubrick della collana Il Castoro Cinema

GEORGE CARLIN: COMPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCES (2001) Full Transcript

Full transcript of Complaints and Grievances, HBO comedy special by stand-up comedian George Carlin. It was recorded on November 17, 2001.

PHOTOGRAPHING STANLEY KUBRICK’S BARRY LYNDON

Interview with Director of Photography John Alcott Among all the film-makers of the world, there is no one quite like Stanley Kubrick. To be more accurate, there is no one even remotely like him. An early dropout from formal education, largely self-taught, but possessed of a razor-sharp intelligence and a voracious curiosity, he has, since the late 1950s steadily risen toward the...

KUBRICK’S SHINING – REVIEW BY RICHARD T. JAMESON FOR “FILM COMMENT”

by Richard T. Jameson Camera comes in low over an immense Western lake, its destination apparently a small island at the center that seems to consist of nothing but treetops. Draw nearer, then sweep over and pass the island, skewing slightly now in search of a central focus at the juncture of lake surface and the surrounding escarpment, glowing in...

LOLITA (1962): REVIEW BY ROBERT HATCH FOR ‘THE NATION’

Sue Lyon makes Lolita a mirror of the popular culture and as alarming a harbinger of Western civilization's imminent collapse as I can remember.

IL BUONO, IL BRUTTO, IL CATTIVO di Marcello Garofalo

di Marcello Garofalo Una località isolata battuta dal vento. Due uomini scendono da cavallo avanzando verso un terzo, loro complice: insieme entrano in un saloon sparando all’impazzata, quando dalla finestra sbuca un messicano, Tuco, tenendo in una mano un cosciotto di bue e nell’altra la pistola. Fermo immagine con la didascalia «il brutto». L’uomo fugge a cavallo, lasciando i sicari...

HISTORICISM IN “THE SHINING” by Fredric Jameson

Kubrick’s adaptation of King's novel, while it maintains elements necessary to cue the genre of the horror film, expands King’s work of popular entertainment into a thoroughly postmodern work of art.

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS FORGOTTEN: THE SHINING

by Thomas Allen Nelson After Barry Lyndon, his least commercially successful but one of his most artistically satisfying films, Stanley Kubrick turned to a contemporary American horror novel by Stephen King. As interesting a potboiler in its own right as Thackeray’s obscure nineteenth-century picaresque adventure, King’s The Shining (1977) represented for Ku­brick something more than just a ready commercial property...

FAMILY LIFE AND LEISURE CULTURE IN “THE SHINING”

A recent variation in the horror movie genre has been a series of films about middle class life in America in which the source of potential hazard is middle class life.

GENRE THEORY AND “THE SHINING”

Toward a Post-structural Influence in Film Genre Study: Intertextuality and The Shining. Essay by Walter Metz

1984: ORWELL, O DELL’ENERGIA VISIONARIA – Saggio di Umberto Eco

Il terribile libro di Orwell ha segnato il nostro tempo, gli ha fornito una immagine ossessiva, la minaccia di un millennio assai prossimo, e dicendo "quel giorno verrà..." ci ha impegnato tutti nell'attesa di quel giorno

EYES WIDE SHUT: WHAT THE CRITICS FAILED TO SEE IN KUBRICK’S LAST FILM

Not a single critic, not even those few who claimed to like Eyes Wide Shut, made any attempt to understand the film on its own artistic terms. Instead, the critics denounced the film for not living up to the claims its publicists had made for it.

SCORSESE’S GANGS OF NEW YORK: WHY MYTH MATTERS

by Timothy J. Gilfoyle MARTIN SCORSESE, et al., Gangs of New York: Making the Movie. New York: Miramax Books, 2002, pp. 228, illustrations, $24.95 paper. HERBERT ASBURY, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. New York: Knopf, 1928, pp. xvii, 400; reprint, New York: Old Town Books, 1989; reprint, New York: Paragon House, 1990; reprint, New York:...

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: UN MARXISTA A NEW YORK

È a New York da dieci giorni, è venuto per il festival cinematografico, vi davano due dei suoi film. Sono proprio cu­riosa di saper se l’America piace a questo marxista con­vinto, a questo cristiano arrabbiato, insomma a Pasolini.

THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) – Review by Dilys Powell

by Dilys Powell The Grapes of Wrath is not just a film, not just a tragedy, not just a social indictment even; it is an experience; it is history unfolding like a terrible fungus; it is America. Not the cinema America; no lovely silk legs, no Civil War; not the vicious-naive underworld America of the gangster film either. This is...

THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940): THEMATIC EMPHASIS THROUGH VISUAL STYLE

by Vivian C. Sobchack Since its release in 1940, the film version of The Grapes of  Wrath has attracted enormous and enduring critical and popular attention.1 Yet, in some ways it has also remained a neglected film, a film obscured by the shadow of its illustrious parentage (John Ford out of John Steinbeck) and by its generic absorption into that...

APOCALYPSE NOW (1979): JOSEPH CONRAD AND THE TELEVISION WAR

"The most important thing I wanted to do in the making of Apocalypse Now was to create a film experience that would give its audience a sense of the horror, the madness, the sensuousness, and the moral dilemma of the Vietnam war. "

SEX AND DR. STRANGELOVE

This study will point out how Dr. Strangelove is a sex allegory: from foreplay to explosion in the mechanized world.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1964)

Few authors of this generation have sparked more controversy with a single book than a former Cornell University professor with the resoundingly Russian name of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

L’ANNO DEL DRAGONE – Recensione di Gualtiero De Marinis per “Cineforum”

C'è un patto di non aggressione tra la polizia e gli «anziani» della comunità cinese di Chinatown. Ma quando al posto dell'opimo William McKenna arriva l'agile Stanley White le cose cambiano.

FUORI ORARIO (1986) – Recensione di Franco La Polla per “Cineforum”

«Cambiano le regole. Quando si fanno le ore piccole è zona franca», dice il simpatico barista a Marcy e Paul, offrendo loro la consumazione, per divenire di lì a poco il burbero, inesorabile proprietario che impone al giovane l’ordinazione.

PAULINE KAEL ON OLIVER STONE’S PLATOON

Pauline Kael reviews Oliver Stone's "Platoon". Published in "The New Yorker", January 12, 1987

RISORGIMENTO RIVOLUZIONARIO

Dal 1831 al 1860 i rivoluzionari italiani tentarono una serie di insurrezioni spedizioni militari nella convinzione di suscitare una guerra di popolo: per lo più quei tentativi furono male organizzati e spesso si conclusero in tragedia; a volte ebbero invece un clamoroso successo che superò qualunque logica.

BEHIND THE SCENES OF “THE SHINING” WITH SCATMAN CROTHERS

"I wanted to play the part of Dick Halloran before I even knew that they were going to make the movie," says Scatman Crothers

LA RABBIA E L’ORGOGLIO

Articolo di Oriana Fallaci, apparso sul quotidiano Il Corriere della Sera il 29 settembre 2001 in seguito all'attacco alle Torri Gemelle dell'11 settembre 2001

25 LUGLIO 1943: MONTANELLI RACCONTA LA FINE DEL DUCE

Nel luglio 1943 la caduta di Mussolini e il crollo del regime che aveva tenuto in pugno l'Italia per 21 anni rappresentarono per molti italiani la fine di un incubo. Per altri, cresciuti nel mito dell'Impero e del «genio italico», fu una tragedia.

MARTIN SCORSESE: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1991)

Martin Scorsese interviewed by David Rensin for Playboy magazine, April 1991

THE THREE FACES OF LOLITA, OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE ADAPTATION

Lolita’s path from novel to the Stanley Kubrick's and Adrian Lyne's film adaptations. Essay by Rebecca Bell-Metereau

FROM ‘TRAUMNOVELLE’ (1927) TO SCRIPT TO SCREEN—’EYES WIDE SHUT’ (1999)

Stanley Kubrick came very late in life to the screen adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s novella, though he had read it and been intrigued by it some thirty years earlier.

ARMY OF SHADOWS: PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE

Pierre Lhomme, recalls his work on "Army of Shadows", Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 masterpiece about the French Resistance

ARANCIA MECCANICA – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

Giovanni Grazzini recensisce "Arancia Meccanica" di Stanley Kubrick. Corriere della Sera, 24 agosto 1972

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – CATCHER IN THE MILKY-WAY

Paul Schrader reviews Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey". Published in 'Spectacle', September 13, 1968

MATTATOIO N. 5 – Introduzione di Vincenzo Mantovani

Introduzione di Vincenzo Mantovani alla versione italiana Mondadori del romanzo di Kurt Vonnegut Jr. "Mattatoio N.5"

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE: DREAD AND DESIRE

Aching desire and repression and guilt collide in Scorsese’s version of Edith Wharton’s 'The Age of Innocence'

CUORE DI TENEBRA: INTRODUZIONE DI ROBERT HAMPSON

Introduzione di Robert Hampson all'edizione Mondadori del romanzo di Joseph Conrad "Cuore di tenebra" (Heart of Darkness)

FURORE: IL TEMPO, LA SOCIETÀ

Introduzione alla versione italiana del romanzo "Furore" (The Grapes of Wrath) di John Steinbeck, pubblicato da Bompiani nel 1940

SENTINEL OF ETERNITY (1951) by Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Sentinel of Eternity", published in 1951 , which was used as a starting point for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey

MAO 1966-1996: IL VERO VOLTO DELLA RIVOLUZIONE CULTURALE CHE ILLUSE UNA GENERAZIONE

Uno sconvolgente dossier-verità sulla rivoluzione culturale, sul mito del maoismo e sulle illusioni di una generazione

THE ARTFUL PROPAGANDA OF FORD’S “THE GRAPES OF WRATH”

Athough audiences still want to see John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), it has been belittled by critics since the emergence of scholarly interest in American film in the 1960s.

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1975)

American director Francis Ford Coppola interviewed by William Murray for Playboy magazine, July 1975 issue

PATHS OF GLORY – Review by Bosley Crowther

To a certain extent, this forthright picture has the impact of hard reality, mainly because its frank avowal of agonizing, uncompensated injustice is pursued to the bitter, tragic end.

PATHS OF GLORY – Review by Dilys Powell

Paths of Glory is the work of a brilliant young professional who is easing himself into the more difficult teaches of his job.

KUBRICK: LA GUERRA E LA STORIA

Il film di Kubrick "Paths of Glory" visto nel contesto della cinematografia più critica verso la Grande Guerra

COBB AND KUBRICK: AUTHOR AND AUTEUR: (PATHS OF GLORY AS NOVEL AND FILM)

Not the least of the virtues of Stanley Kubrick’s movie version of Paths of Glory is that it has been a chief help in rescuing Humphrey Cobb’s 1935 novel— now appearing, as they say, on your neighborhood book-stand.

1848: LA RIVOLUZIONE MANCATA

Gianluca Formichi racconta il biennio della rivoluzione nazionale italiana conclusosi il 25 agosto 1849 con la resa di Venezia, ultimo baluardo della rivoluzione. Pubblicato su "Storia e Dossier", luglio-agosto 1995

DR. STRANGELOVE: NIGHTMARE COMEDY AND THE IDEOLOGY OF LIBERAL CONSENSUS

by Charles Maland DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) is one of the most fascinating and important American films of the 1960s. As a sensitive artistic response to its age, the film presents a moral protest of revulsion against the dominant cultural paradigm in America—what Geoffrey Hodgson has termed...

EYES WIDE SHUT: STANLEY, TOM AND NICOLE—THREE OF A KIND

Tom and Nicole tell how they succumbed to Stanley Kubrick's obsession—and his charm

EYES WIDE SHUT: ALL EYES ON THEM – Review by Richard Schickel

The theme is sexual obsession. The stars are Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The director is Stanley Kubrick. Who could look anywhere else?

ARANCIA MECCANICA: ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN

E se "Arancia meccanica" fosse il primo metafilm di tutto il cinema postmoderno? Saggio di Marcello Walter Bruno

ARANCIA MECCANICA E LOLITA: KUBRICK REPLAY

Le riedizioni di Lolita e di Arancia Meccanica: il cinema come "magnifica ossessione", la componente ludica della violenza in una messa in scena "assoluta" delle nostre pulsioni e illusioni culturali.

DR. STRANGELOVE – Review by Bosley Crowther

Stanley Kubrick's new film, called Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across.

FULL METAL KUBRICK – UN DOSSIER PROVVISORIO di Paolo Cherchi Usai

Full Metal Jacket (1987) di Stanley Kubrick. Recensione di Paolo Cherchi Usai, in "Segnocinema", n. 31, 1988

FULL METAL JACKET: KUBRICK’S ULTERIOR WAR

Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" review published in Film Comment, September/October 1998. By Robert Castle and Stephen Donatelli

EYES WIDE SHUT: KUBRICK CASTS A RIVETING SPELL

Unquestionably one of the most highly anticipated films of modern times due to its high-powered talent combo, protracted and secrecy-enshrouded shoot, rumored racy content

FULL METAL JACKET: PONDEROSO – Review by Pauline Kael

Chances are that when Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket is at midpoint a lot of moviegoers will be asking themselves what it’s going to be about, and when it’s over they still won’t know.

I CANCELLI DEL CIELO: RECENSIONE DI “SEGNO CINEMA”

I cancelli del cielo si aprono sull’inferno. Il film è il crack economico più disastroso di tutti i tempi e gode di un efferato ostracismo critico indigeno

IL CACCIATORE – Recensione di Morando Morandini

Morando Morandini recensisce "Il cacciatore" di Michael Cimino

THE DEER HUNTER: “THE NEW YORK TIMES” REVIEW

Vincent Canby reviews Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter" for The New York Times, December 15, 1978

GANGS OF NEW YORK: AMERICA OF SCORSESE

Gangs of New York (2002) di M. Scorsese. Contributi critici di F. La Polla, F. Cattaneo, E. Morreale, A.G. Mancino e A. Piccardi. Cineforum 423, marzo 2003

IL PIANISTA (2002) – Recensione Cineforum

Contributi critici di Emanuela Martini e Francesco Cattaneo. In "Cineforum" 421, gennaio 2003

IL SIGNORE DEGLI ANELLI: LE DUE TORRI – IL CREPUSCOLO DEGLI EROI

Nella Terra di Mezzo, il Male sta dilagando; le sue schiere si rafforzano e si infittiscono, mentre il minuscolo esercito del Bene è disperso e confuso.

A.I. INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE: UN MONDO SENZA PIETÀ – Speciale Cineforum

"A.I." delinea l'immagine di un mondo (futuro?) in cui "nascere" robot aiuta forse a capire, ma non a sconfiggere il destino di solitudine e silenzio che incombe sulla specie umana

SREBRENICA DIECI ANNI DOPO

11 luglio 1995: i soldati serbobosniaci uccidono settemila uomini e ragazzi musulmani. La storia di Fatima e Damir. E di una fotografia che sconvolse il mondo

UOMINI CONTRO: RECENSIONI ITALIANE

Con contributi di Giovanni Grazzini (Il Corriere della Sera), Calisto Cosulich (ABC), Onorato Orsini (La Notte), Ugo Casiraghi (l’Unità)

RETAKE: THE FILMS OF ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Rereading articles in 'Positif' on Iranian cinema recalls opportunely that the appearance on the international scene of Abbas Kiarostami was not without precedence: the soil of Iran was already cinematographically fertile

FULL METAL JACKET: PAINT IT BLACK

Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987) presents a very different vision of the Vietnam War, one with enhanced perspective.

L’ANNO DEL DRAGONE: RECENSIONE DI ‘SEGNO CINEMA’

Cimino fa sollevare le comunità cinesi d’America per la sua ritrattistica di una mafia gialla che tesaurizza tutta l’iconografia hollywoodiana in materia, da Fu Manchu in poi

THE RIGHT PLACE: INTERVISTA A MICHAEL CIMINO

Intervista a Michael Cimino realizzata da Marc Chevrie, Jean Narboni e Vincent Ostria, Cahiers du Cinéma n. 377

ARANCIA MECCANICA (RIEDIZIONE, 1998) – Recensioni italiane

Raccolta di recensioni italiane pubblicate in occasione della riedizione del film di Stanley Kubrick 'Arancia meccanica' nel 1998

THE SHINING: Review by Robert Hatch for “The Nation”

I am not certain what it means to call Stanley Kubrick's The Shining "the first epic horror film," as the ads are quoting Jack Kroll of Newsweek, but surely it is one of the strangest of them.

FULL METAL JACKET: Review by Terrence Rafferty for “The Nation”

Full Metal Jacket certainly isn’t what we expect a Vietnam movie to be. Then again, it’s only secondarily a movie about the war. First and foremost, this is a Kubrick movie

ROBIN WILLIAMS: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1992)

In 1992, the actor-comedian revealed the wonderful agony of stand-up, the perils of a life in Hollywood, and manic temptations that came with his Oscar-nominated gifts

EYES WIDE SHUT: L’ULTIMA LUCCICANZA DI KUBRICK

Recensioni di 'Eyes Wide Shut' pubblicate sulla rivista Duel, n.74, Ottobre 1999. Contributi critici di Ezio Alberone, Gianni Canova e Mario Sesti

STANLEY KUBRICK RAPS

Interviewer Charlie Kohler met with Kubrick in an MGM conference room surrounded by posters and stills from 2001. Kubrick was eager to discuss his new film.

BODIES IN SPACE: FILM AS CARNAL KNOWLEDGE

Annette Michelson in her famous 1969 essay, Bodies in Space: Film as 'Carnal Knowledge' in which she explored the phenomenal impact of 2001: A Space Odyssey

BONNIE E CLYDE: DUE FIGLI DELL’AMERICA DEPRESSA

Bonnie e Clyde, la coppia di amanti-rapinatori come simbolo di atteggiamenti d'istintiva ribellione a una società di tipo convenzionale

TODD MCCARTHY ON ‘SERGEANT YORK’ (1941)

Todd McCarthy on Howard Hawk's movie "Sergeant York" (1941), the story of Alvin C. York, one of the most decorated soldiers in American history

2001: ODISSEA NELLO SPAZIO – Analisi di Enrico Ghezzi, Il Castoro Cinema

Il 1968 fu un anno memorabile. Il primo Giro vinto da Eddy Merckx, Beamon che a Città del Messico salta 8,90 in lungo, il Maggio, Praga. Inoltre, esce 2001: Odissea nello spazio

PAULINE KAEL ON ‘2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY’

Kubrick literally learned to stop worrying and love the bomb; he’s become his own butt—the Herman Kahn of extraterrestrial games theory

BONNIE AND CLYDE: REVIEW BY PAULINE KAEL

How do you make a good movie in this country without being jumped on? Bonnie and Clyde is the most excitingly American American movie since The Manchurian Candidate.

BEHIND THE CAMERAS ON “THE SHINING”

August 1980 issue of American Cinematographer magazine, including an interview with John Alcott and an article on the use of Garrett Brown’s invention, the steadicam, in The Shining.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE: REVIEW BY MICHAEL CRICHTON

In 1969, a then relatively unknown Michael Crichton reviewed Kurt Vonnegut's latest novel, "Slaughterhouse Five". In an ambivalent take, Crichton called it "hideous, ghastly, murderous—and calm."

FULL METAL JACKET: L’OSSESSIONE SENZA FINE DELLA GUERRA IN VIETNAM

Forse l'America ha trovato il sistema per esorcizzare una guerra dolorosamente perduta: basta continuare a combatterla al cinema, all'infinito.

FULL METAL JACKET: KUBRICK E I ‘MINISTRI DI MORTE’

Tullio Kezich recensisce il nuovo film di Stanley Kubrick "Full Metal Jacket". Pubblicato in La Repubblica, 10 ottobre 1987

EFFETTO “SHINING”: TECNICA ED ESPRESSIONE DELL’ULTIMO KUBRICK

Saggio di di Paolo Cherchi Usai. “Segnocinema”, 1981, n. 1

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA: AN OFFER HE COULDN’T REFUSE

Francis Ford Coppola on 'The Godfather Part III. Interview by Ana Maria Bahiana for CINEMA Papers

CALLIE KHOURI: SCRIPTING THELMA & LOUISE

Interview by Ana Maria Bahiana. In a town like LA, where everybody from your valet parker to your dentist seems to be writing a screenplay with dreams of wealth and glory on their minds, Callie Khouri is a strange, notable exception.

MARTIN SCORSESE: GANGSTER AND PRIEST

Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas: Interview by Ana Maria Bahiana and Afterword by Raffaele Caputo. From CINEMA Papers, December 1990

VIEW FLAWS DON’T DIM ‘THE SHINING’ by Janet Maslin

Stanley Kubrick, once again leaves his audiences asking a familiar question: How can anyone make a film so fastidiously beautiful and still leave so many loose ends?

THE SHINING: Review by Janet Maslin for the New York Times

The Shining, Stanley Kubrick's spellbinding foray into the realm of the horror film, is at its most gloriously diabolical as Jack and Wendy Torrance take the grand tour.

EYES WIDE SHUT E VERTIGO: EROTISMO, MORTE E METAFISICA IN KUBRICK E HITCHCOCK

Eyes Wide Shut (1999), capolavoro postumo di Stanley Kubrick, condivide con Vertigo (1958), di Alfred Hitchcock, non solo le linee tematiche di sviluppo, ma anche quelle linguistiche e strutturali.

EYES WIDE SHUT: KUBRICK SE NE VA LASCIANDOCI L’ENIGMA

Porteremo a lungo nella memoria l’enigma di questo film, che è come una dolce e vaga serata d’addio di un nostro misterioso amico settantunenne, che ci ha lasciato per sempre senza svelarci quasi nessuno dei suoi segreti.

2001: A PHILOSOPHICAL ODYSSEY

In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) we are invited by director Stanley Kubrick to experience a mesmerizing yet also alienating form of sensory liberation, as paradoxical as such an experience may at first sound.

BLADE RUNNER: RECENSIONE DI GIOVANNI GRAZZINI

Uno dei più clamorosi film di fantascienza che si siano visti negli ultimi anni, una delle più sgomentevoli profezie sull'imminente medioevo, uno dei frutti più maturi del cinema spettacolare.

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA: LEONE E LA MEMORIA – di Piera Detassis

L'operazione dei distributori americani di tagliare e rimontare cronologicamente il film di Sergio Leone, C’era una volta in America, è un atto di violenza che riduce in polvere, cancellandolo, il cuore narrativo stesso di questo film

GEORGE CARLIN: LIFE IS WORTH LOSING (2006) – Full transcript

George Carlin returns to the stage in Life is Worth Losing, his 13th live comedy stand-up special, performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for HBO

BLADE RUNNER: REVIEW BY PAULINE KAEL

Blade Runner doesn’t engage you directly; it forces passivity on you. It sets you down in this lopsided maze of a city, with its post-human feeling, and keeps you persuaded that something bad is about to happen.

MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI: THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1967)

As the creator of such meticulously crafted and psychologically penetrating films as L‘Avventura, Red Desert and Blow-Up, 55-year-old Michelangelo Antonioni has earned a lofty but controversial niche among cinematic chroniclers of the problems that beset modern man.

APOCALYPSE NOW: THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW

Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now lives up to its grand title, disclosing not only the various faces of war but also the contradictions between excitement and boredom, terror and pity, brutality and beauty.

UNA TENEBRA INCOMPIUTA: CONRAD RIPRODOTTO

Apocalypse Now come segno della divisione fra il moderno e il postmoderno. Saggio di Francesco Binni

THE CHAIN NEVER STOPS: A SPECIAL REPORT FROM INSIDE THE USA’S SLAUGHTERHOUSES

Thousands of meatpacking workers suffer crippling injuries each year. A special report from inside the nation's slaughterhouses.

CARNE DA MACELLO: INCHIESTA DI ERIC SCHLOSSER

Nei mattatoi degli Stati Uniti la produzione non si ferma mai. Inchiesta sul lavoro più pericoloso d’America

ROMA-LIVERPOOL, 30 MAGGIO 1984: LE PAGINE DI “REPUBBLICA”

Finale della Coppa dei Campioni 1984, Roma-Liverpool raccontata nelle pagine del quotidiano la Repubblica

CUORE DI TENEBRA: INTRODUZIONE DI FRANCESCO BINNI

Joseph Conrad, Cuore di tenebra, introduzione di Francesco Binni, traduzione di Luisa Saraval, Milano, Garzanti, 2002

DESERTO ROSSO: RECENSIONE DI GIOVANNI GRAZZINI

È il male del secolo, tutti ne siamo affetti. Matti incurabili, l'unico conforto ci viene dal tenere per mano un bambino e dall'avere coscienza della nostra condizione. La colpa di tutto? Innanzi tutto, della civiltà industriale.

CUORE DI TENEBRA: L’ANGELO NERO

Di Cuore di Tenebra la Linea d'ombra rappresenta idealmente l'antecedente immediato, anche se è stata scritta diciott'anni circa dopo l'altro racconto.

FRANCIS COPPOLA: THE ROLLING STONE INTERVIEW (1982)

The director discusses his new movie — One from the Heart — and his bold vision for the future of filmmaking

MARIO MONICELLI: «BASTA CON QUESTE BUFFONATE!»

Orio Caldiron intervista Mario Monicelli, l'inventore della commedia all'italiana, prima bistrattata e poi rivalutata

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA: REVIEW BY “CINEMA PAPERS”

Much of the confusion about "Once Upon a Time in America" stems from a certain critical inability to understand why the film is structured the way it is, and why Leone chooses to conclude the fiction with such a supposedly enigmatic scene.

ENNIO MORRICONE: INTERVIEW (1984)

Ennio Morricone has written some of the cinema's most- recognizable and best-loved film scores including the recent Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America". Here he is inter­viewed by Sue Adler.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA: THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW

A lazily hallucinatory epic that means to encapsulate approximately 50 years of American social history into a single film

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA: Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

Recensione del film di Sergio Leone "C'era una volta in America", a cura di Giovanni Grazzini, Il Corriere della Sera, 21 maggio 1984

L’ISOLA IN PRIMA LINEA

Durante la guerra di Spagna la Sardegna svolse un ruolo rilevante come base aerea e navale

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA: ODIOSO SUBLIME LEONE

Tullio Kezich recensisce dal Festival di Cannes il film di Sergio Leone "C'era una volta in America"

2001: ODISSEA NELLO SPAZIO – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

Non siamo soli nell'universo. Per convincercene, e umiliare il nostro orgoglio, Stanley Kubrick ha scritto e diretto il più clamoroso e agghiacciante film di fantascienza, o come lui dice, di "prescienza", che sinora sia apparso sugli schermi del sistema solare.

A SANGUE FREDDO

Quando Philip Seymour Hoffman sale sul palco del teatro Walter Reade, a Manhattan, sono appena passati i titoli di coda di Capote, il film che potrebbe valergli l’Oscar 2005 per il migliore interprete maschile.

TAKESHI KITANO: ARTISTA A DUE FACCE

È uno dei registi giapponesi più amati del mondo. Ma nel suo paese si fa chiamare Beat Takeshi ed è il re della tv spazzatura

IL CASTELLO ERRANTE DI HOWL: MIYAZAKI LIBERA TUTTI

Il 9 settembre esce in Italia Il castello errante di Howl del regista giapponese Hayao Miyazaki. Che anche questa volta assegna all’immaginazione dei bambini il compito di salvare il mondo

MEMORIE DI GUERRA

“Per tutto quel periodo non ho fatto che sognare le scarpe. Come ottenerle? Che fare per procurarmele?”. Sessantanni fa finiva la seconda guerra mondiale. Il ricordo di Ryszard Kapuscinski

HO VISTO L’INFERNO

Lo scrittore spagnolo Antonio Muñoz Molina era nel centro di New York l’11 settembre. Ecco la sua testimonianza sui primi istanti della tragedia

FULL METAL JACKET: CYNIC’S CHOICE

September 1987 issue of American Cinematographer, detailing the making of Stanley Kubrick's film 'Full Metal Jacket'.

PLATOON: Review by Terrence Rafferty for “The Nation”

Oliver Stone’s Platoon, about a group of American infantrymen in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968, is the first Hollywood film about this country’s Southeast Asian adventure that’s just a war movie

FIDEL CASTRO: Dagli archivi del “Corriere”

L'avventura politica di Fidel Castro raccontata nelle pagine del Corriere della Sera

FULL METAL JACKET: REMOTE CONTROL

Review of Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket", by Terrence Rafferty, in Sight and Sound, Autumn 1987

STANLEY KUBRICK: QUEST FOR PERFECTION

Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic collaborators recall the man and his very unique methods

EYES WIDE SHUT: A SWORD IN BED

Cinematographer Larry Smith helps Stanley Kubrick craft a unique look for Eyes Wide Shut, a dreamlike coda to the director’s brilliant career

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: THE OLD ULTRA-VIOLENCE

Director Stanley Kubrick lent a learned eye to A Clockwork Orange, enlisting lighting cameraman John Alcott, BSC to help create a bleak dystopian futurescape

FIDEL CASTRO SECONDO LE GRANDI FIRME DEL “CORRIERE DELLA SERA”

Raccolta di articoli su Fidel Castro pubblicati dalle grandi firme del Corriere della Sera

PAUL SCHRADER ON TAXI DRIVER

In this extract from Schrader on Schrader, a collection of interviews and essays, screenwriter Paul Schrader tells Kevin Jackson about the genesis of Travis Bickle, working with Martin Scorsese and the link between the Coppertone advert and Crime and Punishment

TERRORE DAL CIELO

Tra febbraio e settembre del 1943, molti piccoli centri sardi furono attaccati dall’aviazione alleata

VIDDY WELL, LITTLE BROTHER!

A Clockwork Orange by Tony Parsons A Clockwork Orange was like seeing your little life blown up and put on the big screen. It took all the consolations of being a teenager in Britain in the early 70s — the tribal identity, the comfort of friendship, the mindless intoxication — and made them mythic, monumental, glorious. When the film was released...

CAMPANE A MORTO

Dopo il dramma dei bombardamenti, l’avvocato cagliaritano Giuseppe Musio annunciò nel quotidiano sassarese “L’Isola” la definitiva scomparsa della sua città

GERTRUD DI CARL THEODOR DREYER

Giovanni Grazzini recensisce per il Corriere della Sera il film "Gertrud" di Carl Theodor Dreyer

LA PIÙ BELLA DEL MONDO

Nel trionfo degli azzurri al «Mundial 82» (il primo dell'era moderna) si mescolano varie componenti: atletiche, tecniche e tattiche, ma soprattutto una virtù di comportamento che ci ha reso la squadra più ammirata

IL VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO DI PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

A ogni altra considerazione sul film che Pasolini ha tratto dal Vangelo secondo Matteo bisogna avanzare una premessa: l'azzardo ha avuto già il suo premio nel coraggio, nella buona fede, nella rigorosa aderenza al testo sacro.

ELSA MORANTE E L’ISOLA DI ARTURO

Sergio Saviane incontra Elsa Morante

KUBRICK AND ‘THE SHINING’

P.L. Titterington discusses the evolution of Kubrick’s style and the language of his ideas.

IL SETTECENTO DI BARRY LYNDON E DI 2001: ODISSEA NELLO SPAZIO

Avvisaglie della fine impossibile di Francesco Cattaneo «...è l'individuo tale quale, elementare e tortuoso, vomitato dal Caos in piena Versailles". E.M. Cioran (1). «La luce è tenebra quando è solo luce» Franco Rella (2). Una delle immagini più vulgate del Settecento è sine dubio quella afferente alla formula kantiana secondo cui «l'Illumi­nismo è l'uscita dell'uomo dallo stato di minorità che egli deve imputare...

2001: ODISSEA NELLO SPAZIO: Recensione di Fernaldo di Giammatteo

Il caso di 2001: A Space Odyssey, film di enorme successo e di enorme sfortuna, è uno dei più clamorosi. Tanti furono i sofismi che ne accolsero l’uscita da indurre lo stesso Stanley Kubrick a fornire, un poco infastidito, la sua semplice spiegazione

A SKELETON KEY TO 2001

The young cult for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey now has its HolyWrit. The second 70 mm. release of the movie was accompanied by a collection entitled The Making of Kubrick's '2001' and edited, with the cooperation of the director, by Jerome Agel.

MARIO MONICELLI: IL MIO CINEMA FRA MUSSOLINI, SORDI E GORBACËV

E' stato uno dei più grandi registi italiani di tutti i tempi. Qui ripercorre la sua vita in un racconto intensissimo e divertente, amaro e surreale. Proprio come le sue commedie.

THE SHINING: RESIDENT PHANTOMS

Jonathan Romney looks for clues to Stanley Kubrick’s themes in The Shining’s Overlook Hotel (Sight and Sound, September 1999)

EYES WITHOUT A FACE

Eyes Wide Shut movie review by Charles Whitehouse, Sight and Sound, September 1999

IL PREZZO DELLA VITTORIA

Gli italiani alla guerra di Spagna. Di John F. Coverdale

ROBERT BRESSON: THE POETRY OF PRECISION

Robert Bresson interview with Michel Ciment for American Film, October 1983

SUSAN SONTAG: THE ROLLING STONE INTERVIEW

The writer reflects on her bout with cancer, the fundamentals of love, and her "desert childhood" by Jonathan Cott The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind,'' wrote the late political scientist Hannah Arendt, ''is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human...

TRUMAN CAPOTE – PLAYBOY INTERVIEW

“Wealthy Farmer, Three of Family Slain: H.W. Clutter, Wife and Two Children Are Found Shot in Kansas Home.” The UPI dispatch below this headline, buried in the back pages of the November 15, 1959, New York Times,had an electrifying effect on novelist Truman Capote.

‘2001’ IS UP, UP AND AWAY: KUBRICK’S ODYSSEY IN SPACE BEGINS RUN

2001: A Space Odyssey, a film in which infinite care, intelligence, patience, imagination and Cinerama have been devoted to what looks like the apotheosis of the fantasy of a precocious, early nineteen-fifties city boy.

LOLITA (1962) – Review by Dilys Powell

See the film twice within the space of five days: the test is severe, especially when the original from which the piece is drawn is already familiar...

QUEL GIORNO DA INFARTO A TORINO CON LA JUVE

Juventus - Cagliari, una partita drammatica ricostruita attraverso la testimonianza del medico sociale del Cagliari dello scudetto, il dottor Augusto Frongia

THE MOST BRILLIANT SCI-FI MIND ON ANY PLANET: PHILIP K. DICK

Profile of Philip K. Dick by Paul Williams published in the November 6, 1975 edition of Rolling Stone magazine

KUBRICK COUNTRY – Interview by Penelope Houston

Kubrick Country by Penelope Houston, an interview on A Clockwork Orange, Saturday Review, 25 December 1971

GEORGE CARLIN: IT’S BAD FOR YA (2008) Full transcript

Full transcript of It's Bad for Ya, final HBO comedy special by stand-up comedian George Carlin. It was televised live on March 1, 2008 on HBO.

GEORGE CARLIN: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW

Sam Merrill interviews George Carlin for Playboy magazine in 1982

PHILIP K. DICK ON ‘BLADE RUNNER’

With unflinching honesty, the author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" discusses its cinematic adaptation and the shock of reading the original screenplay, which made him think that he had died and been condemned to eternal torture.

FULL METAL JACKET Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

di Giovanni Grazzini Il tempo passa ma Kubrick non cambia idea: fra tutte le maniere di morire la guerra continua a sembrargli la più cretina. A trent'anni esatti dal suo Orizzonti di gloria, che resta un pilastro del cinema antimilitarista, e a una ventina da Stranamore, eccolo ancora sparare a zero contro chi scatena l'istinto omicida dell'uomo. Per esempio contro...

MEMORY’S ORBIT: EYES WIDE SHUT

Mixing memoir and cultural criticism, Joseph Natoli examines Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut"

MALE BONDING, HOLLYWOOD ORIENTALISM, AND THE REPRESSION OF THE FEMININE IN KUBRICK’S FULL METAL JACKET

Susan White investigates the problem of gender in Kubrick’s "Full Metal Jacket"

CIRCULAR MISADVENTURES: STANLEY KUBRICK’S A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

The title of Stanley Kubrick's latest film, "A Clockwork Orange", alludes in two different ways to something circular or spherical that is closed on itself and spins. By Jean-Loup Bourget

MYTHMAKING IN KUBRICK AND FELLINI

Irving Singer compares Kubrickean and Homeric epics and analyzes in depth the self-referential mythmaking of Federico Fellini in many of his movies, including 8½

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MEL

Christopher Hitchens reviews for Vanity Fair Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA – Reviewed at Cannes Festival

Sergio Leone's "Once upon a time in America" reviewed at the Cannes film Festival by Todd McCarthy for "Variety"

FERENC SÁNTA, AZ ÖTÖDIK PECSÉT (THE FIFTH SEAL; 1963)

Ferenc Sánta’s novel Az otodik pecsét (The Fifth Seal; 1963) thematizes individual moral responsibility during a war

FULL METAL JACKET Review by Todd McCarthy

Todd McCarthy reviews Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" for Variety magazine in 1987

DANTE ALIGHIERI raccontato da Indro Montanelli

Dante Alighieri raccontato da Indro Montanelli nel fascicolo numero 4 della collana "I Protagonisti", pubblicato a puntate dal quotidiano Il Giornale nel 1993

MONTANELLI VEDE LA DOLCE VITA

Indro Montanelli, invitato da Federico Fellini ad una proiezione privata del suo nuovo film, La dolce vita, racconta le sue impressioni sulla pellicola

KUBRICK – BY MICHAEL HERR

The screenwriter of "Full Metal Jacket", Michael Herr, pays homage to his longtime friend, director Stanley Kubrick

EYES WIDE SHUT: IN DREAMS BEGIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Jonathan Rosenbaum reviews Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut

FAMOUS ITALIAN DIRECTOR

Oriana Fallaci interviews Federico Fellini

INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL CIMINO – American Cinematographer 1980

Intervista di Herb Lightman pubblicata in American Cinematographer n. 11, novembre 1980

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN’S MAN – NOVELIST JOHN FOWLES

by Richard B. Stolley The pants are baggy and stained, with the fly at careless half-mast, and his sweater is as lumpy as a laundry bag. He works the local docks, maybe? Or drives a truck? Then study John Fowles's head, that receptacle, as it happens, of one of the most original writing talents at work today. It is vaguely...

2001: A COLD DESCENT

Stanley Kubrick’s futuristic 1968 epic ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ still has the power to startle. Mark Crispin Miller re-examines its subversive vision of power, sex and isolation

IN SEARCH OF THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN

by Richard Combs The South Coast town of Kingswear is a ferry stop across river from Dartmouth, which by comparison is something of a metropolis. Kingswear does, however, boast a railway station, which was closed by British Rail as unprofitable but now does brisk business as part of a private line servicing the Dart Valley. Confirming that this is the...

ORIZZONTI DI GLORIA di Guido Fink

Numero monografico del 1971 - ormai quasi introvabile - dedicato al film di Stanley Kubrick "Orizzonti di Gloria"

DELIVERANCE – BLOOD BROTHERS

John Boorman’s cult film Deliverance is a rape-revenge movie with a difference. Its haunting power lies in what it tries not to show. by Linda Ruth Williams

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – Review by Penelope Gilliatt

Penelope Gilliatt's review of "2001: A Space Odyssey", by Stanley Kubrick. Published in the New Yorker magazine

LOLITA – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

Il film "Lolita" di Stanley Kubrick recensito da Giovanni Grazzini per il Corriere della Sera nel 1962

MICHAEL CIMINO – INTERVIEW WITH MARK PATRICK CARDUCCI (1977)

This interview with Michael Cimino by Mark Patrick Carducci took place on the set of The Deer Hunter in Mingo, Pennsylvania, in July 1977

ENTRETIEN AVEC MICHAEL CIMINO

Traduzione italiana dell'intervista rilasciata da Michael Cimino alla rivista francese "Positif" nel 1979

HEAVEN’S GATE: RECENSIONE DI ERMANNO COMUZIO

Heaven’s Gate non è solo un film. È un affair, uno scandalo, un trauma. Un fatto che trascende il mondo del cinema. Forse un banco di prova o addirittura un nodo cruciale.

SACCHEGGI E CONFISCHE PER LE NOZZE DI CESARE BORGIA

Quando suo figlio decise di sposarsi, Papa Borgia, per dargli un corredo che fosse degno della donna chiesta in moglie, fece razzia nelle botteghe di Roma, sequestrò i beni d’un vescovo condannato per eresia, estorse danari ad alti e bassi prelati e «vendette» persino il perdono a 300 ebrei

A PROPOSITO DI UN LIBRO INTITOLATO LOLITA

di Vladimir Nabokov Dopo che ho incarnato il soave John Ray, il personaggio di Lolita che stende la Prefazione, ogni commento diretto da parte mia potrà sembrare a qualcuno - e a me stesso, per la verità - un’incarnazione di Vladimir Nabokov che parla del proprio libro. Vanno discussi tuttavia alcuni punti; e il metodo autobiografico potrebbe indurre il mimo...

MR. KLEIN E EYES WIDE SHUT: UMILIAZIONE E VERTIGINI DELL’IDENTITÀ

Nelle loro rispettive peculiarità, Mr. Klein e Eyes Wide Shut si collocano entrambi sotto il segno di una velenosa e sottile ambiguità

FILM COME CONOSCENZA CARNALE di Annette Michelson

Traduzione italiana del famoso saggio di Annette Michelson del 1969 su "2001: Odissea nello spazio" di Stanley Kubrick

LOLITA – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael's review of Stanley Kubrick's Lolita is one of her best—inspired, incisive, exuberant

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA – Review by Pauline Kael

Sergio Leone's Once upon a time in America reviewed by Pauline Kael

SERGIO LEONE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MYTH

Peter Babiak on how Leone in "Once Open a Time in America" used an archetypal cultural genre - the gangster film - in order to examine the impact of American cultural myth on American society

THE SHINING – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael's appreciative but skeptical review of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", The New Yorker, 1980

ORA L’ODISSEA DI KUBRICK È NEL CERVELLO

Giovanni Grazzini recensisce per il Corriere della Sera "Shining" di Stanley Kubrick

PERSONA – Review by Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag reviews Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" for Sight and Sound magazine

STORIA DEI MONDIALI DI CALCIO – 1970: BRASILE

Il racconto del trionfo del Brasile in Messico nel 1970

FULL METAL JACKET – Speciale “Filmcritica”

Speciale della rivista "Filmcritica" pubblicato nel 1987 in occasione dell'uscita del film di Stanley Kubrick "Full Metal Jacket"

FITZGERALD, FAULKNER, HEMINGWAY A HOLLYWOOD

Fernanda Pivano parla del rapporto tra gli scrittori americani e il cinema

ORIANA FALLACI AND THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW

Christopher Hitchens recounts his last visit with the tempestuous Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who had recently died.

WELLES AND KUBRICK: TWO FORMS OF EXILE

James Naremore's thought-provoking paper on Welles and Kubrick and the artistic effects of them leaving the U.S.

FROM HORSE’S HEAD TO HORSE’S ASS

10 Reasons why The Godfather Part III is crap

DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? by Phillip K. Dick

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Phillip K. Dick TO MAREN AUGUSTA BERGRUD AUGUST 10, 1923 — JUNE 14, 1967 AND STILL I DREAM HE TREADS THE LAWN, WALKING GHOSTLY IN THE DEW, PIERCED BY MY GLAD SINGING THROUGH. Yeats AUCKLAND A TURTLE WHICH EXPLORER CAPTAIN COOK GAVE TO THE KING OF TONGA IN 1777 DIED YESTERDAY. IT WAS NEARLY 200 YEARS OLD. THE ANIMAL, CALLED TU'IMALILA,...

DREAM STORY – Introduction by Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael discusses "Dream Story" in terms of its cultural and historical context in fin-de-siècle Vienna, and comments on the implied Jewish identity of the main character

THE “ANTI-MILITARISM” OF STANLEY KUBRICK

Essay by Jackson Burgess

THE CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS OF ‘A CLOCKWORK ORANGE’

Janet Staiger's essay on the cultural effects of watching A Clockwork Orange

WALL STREET (1987) – “Greed Is Good…”

“Well, ladies and gentlemen, we’re not here to indulge in fantasy, but in political and economic reality... I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them. The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of...

KURT VONNEGUT – Playboy interview

A candid conversation with the ironic author of "Slaughterhouse-five"

BARRY LYNDON – Recensione di Francesco Bolzoni

Recensione di Francesco Bolzoni a Barry Lyndon (1975) di Stanley Kubrick. La recensione è apparsa in «Rivista del Cinematografo», nel 1976

THE DEER HUNTER – Review by Peter Biskind

Peter Biskind reviews Michael Cimino's movie the Deer Hunter

DR. STRANGELOVE – review by Robert Hatch

Robert Hatch reviews Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove for "The Nation"

CHECKMATING THE GENERAL: STANLEY KUBRICK’S FEAR AND DESIRE by Paolo Cherchi Usai

Paolo Cherchi Usai's essay on FEAR AND DESIRE, a film by Stanley Kubrick, carefully analyzes the importance of this early work by the great film maker

STANLEY KUBRICK: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1968)

A candid conversation with the pioneering creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove and Lolita

JOSEPH CONRAD – CUORE DI TENEBRA – Testo italiano

Traduzione italiana del romanzo di Joseph Conrad pubblicato nel 1902

FRANZ KAFKA – NELLA COLONIA PENALE – Testo italiano

Traduzione italiana del racconto scritto da Franz Kaka nel 1914

APOCALYPSE NOW – Speciale della rivista “Duel”

Speciale pubblicato dalla rivista "Duel" nel 2001 in occasione dell'uscita di "Apocalypse Now Redux"

THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX – Review by Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens’ review of the German film The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) which portrays the terrorist group operating in West Germany known as the Red Army Faction

FEAR AND DESIRE: COUNTRY OF THE MIND

Jason Sperb analyses Fear and Desire and its relevance to Kubrick's larger body of work

L’ELIMINAZIONE DI REINHARD HEYDRICH

Racconto dell'operazione militare che portò all'uccisione del generale delle SS Reinhard Heydrich durante la seconda guerra mondiale

George Orwell Review of “WE” by E. I. Zamyatin

Review of “WE” by E. I. Zamyatin by George Orwell Several years after hearing of its existence, I have at last got my hands on a copy of Zamyatin's We, which is one of the literary curiosities of this book-burning age. Looking it up in Gleb Struve's Twenty-Five Years of Soviet Russian Literature, I find its history to have been...

BRAVE NEW WORLD: FOREWORD BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Christopher Hitchens's introduction to the dystopian novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

HURRICANE LOLITA

Christopher Hitchens talks about Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" on the 50th anniversary of its publication.

STORIA DEI MONDIALI DI CALCIO – 1930: URUGUAY

Storia dei Campionati del Mondo di Calcio del 1930, pubblicata nell'inserto del Guerin Sportivo "Calciomondo" nel 1978

THE BRUTALITY OF MILITARY INCOMPETENCE: PATHS OF GLORY AND KING AND COUNTRY

Essay by Andrew Kelly published in "Cinema and The Great War"

THE SHINING – Review by Paul Mayersberg for Sight & Sound

Paul Mayersberg reviews Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

ORIZZONTI DI GLORIA: “FOYER” CRITICO DELLA RIVISTA BIANCO E NERO

Contributi critici del regista cinematografico Michelangelo Antonioni, del critico letterario Giulio Cattaneo, dello storico del cinema Fausto Montesanti e dello sceneggiatore Giorgio Prosperi. Con una nota critica di Lino Del Fra.

ORIZZONTI DI GLORIA – Recensione di Guido Aristarco

Recensione del film di Stanley Kubrick "Orizzonti di Gloria", scritta da Guido Aristarco per la rivista Cinema Nuovo

PATHS OF GLORY – Review by François Truffaut

François Truffaut reviews Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory"

ROMA CITTÀ APERTA – SEQUENZA FINALE: L’ESECUZIONE DI DON PIETRO

Sceneggiatura della sequenza finale del film di Rossellini "Roma città aperta"

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: STANLEY STRANGELOVE – Review by Pauline Kael

Review of Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" written by Pauline Kael and published in The New Yorker, January 1, 1972

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: THE DÉCOR OF TOMORROW’S HELL

Robert Hughes's review on Stanley Kubrick’s "A Clockwork Orange", The Décor of Tomorrow’s Hell, "Time", 1971

THE SHINING – Stanley Kubrick’s Horror Show

Review of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", written by Jack Kroll and published in Newsweek, June 2, 1980

IL CACCIATORE – Recensione di Ernesto G. Laura, Bianco e Nero

Recensione del film di Michael Cimino "Il Cacciatore", a cura di Ernesto G. Laura, pubblicata dalla rivista "Bianco e Nero" nel 1979

KUBRICK: CRITICS TO BE DAMNED – Interview by John Hofsess

Interview with Stanley Kubrick by Canadian Film Critic John Hofsess, published in The Soho News, May 1980

LA RAGIONE EVANESCENTE: NEL LABIRINTO DI SHINING

Saggio di Francesco Cattaneo su Shining, pubblicato dalla rivista italiana Cineforum nel 2003

PATTERNS OF SPACE, SOUND AND MOVEMENT IN PATHS OF GLORY

Essay by Eric Eaton published in "Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy"

DOSSIER EYES WIDE SHUT – SegnoCinema

Speciale Eyes Wide Shut pubblicato dalla rivista italiana SegnoCinema, Gennaio-Febbraio 2000

KUBRICK’S EYE – Speciale Cineforum

Speciale su Stanley Kubrick pubblicato dalla rivista italiana Cineforum nel 1999 in occasione dell'uscita di Eyes Wide Shut

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AMERICAN, by Ralph Linton

Diffusion of ideas, a pattern of behavior, or an exchange of material objects is always a two-way street between societies. Americans often think it is a oneway process...

CÉLINE, OVVERO LO SCANDALO DI UN SECOLO

Breve scritto di Ernesto Ferrero apparso nell'edizione italiana del romanzo di Louis-Ferdinand Céline "Viaggio al termine della notte" (1932)

CITY OF SADNESS: WINDOW ON CHINA

Review of Hou Hsiao-hsien's movie "A City of Sadness" (1989), written by Yann Tobin for the French magazine Positif in 1990

GANGS OF NEW YORK: TRIBÙ CONTRO TRIBÙ COSÌ NASCE L’AMERICA

Recensione del film di Martin Scorsese "Gangs of New York" a cura di Gianni Canova. Pubblicata sulla rivista Letture nel Marzo 2003

BLADE RUNNER – Recensione di Fernaldo Di Giammatteo

Analisi di Blade Runner a cura di Fernaldo Di Giammatteo, pubblicata nel volume Milestones

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA – Il Castoro Cinema

Francesco Mininni analizza il film «C'era una volta in America» nel volume monografico de «Il Castoro Cinema» dedicato a Sergio Leone

EYES WIDE SHUT – Recensione di Sandro Bernardi

Recensione di Eyes Wide Shut a cura di Sandro Bernardi. Pubblicata sulla rivista Drammaturgia, Luglio 2000

SPECIALE LEONE – C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA

Speciale Sergio Leone pubblicato nel 1984 dalla rivista Cineforum (238) in occasione dell'uscita di C'era una volta in America

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA: TUTTI A SOGNARE LO STESSO SOGNO

Saggio di Marcello Garofalo sull'ultimo film di Sergio Leone, C'era una volta in America. Pubblicato su SegnoCinema, n. 38, maggio 1989.

INTERVIEW WITH SERGIO LEONE – American Film, 1984

Interview with Sergio Leone, by Pete Hamill. Published in American Film, June 1984

2001: ODISSEA NELLO SPAZIO – Recensione di Alberto Moravia

2001: Odissea nello Spazio - Recensione di Alberto Moravia pubblicata sulla rivista italiana l'Espresso del 29 Dicembre 1968

MANLIO SCOPIGNO. UNICO, COME QUELLO SCUDETTO

È morto Manlio Scopigno, l'allenatore del grande Cagliari: «filosofo» e profondo conoscitore di calcio

THEY CALL ME TRINITY – Review by Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes reviews Enzo Barboni’s "They Call Me Trinity" in his book "Once Upon a Time in the Italian West"

IL DOTTOR STRANAMORE – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini del film Il Dottor Stranamore di Stanley Kubrick, pubblicata sul Corriere della Sera il 04 Aprile 1964

I BORGIA raccontati da Indro Montanelli

I Borgia raccontati da Indro Montanelli nel fascicolo numero 6 della collana "I Protagonisti", pubblicato a puntate dal quotidiano Il Giornale nel 1993

BARRY LYNDON – Speciale Cineforum

Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon special published by Italian magazine Cineforum n.160, December 1976

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA – Analisi di Marcello Garofalo

Marcello Garofalo analizza il film di Sergio Leone "C'era una volta in America" nel suo libro "Tutto il cinema di Sergio Leone"

BARRY LYNDON: PRETTY AS A PICTURE – Review by Derek Malcolm

Derek Malcolm reviews Kubrick's movie of Thackeray's Barry Lyndon

THE DEER HUNTER – Review by Gordon Gow for Films and Filming magazine

Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978) review by Gordon Gow for Films and Filming magazine, March 1979

THEY CALL ME TRINITY – The beans were not much good anyway…

IL BACIO DELL’ASSASSINO – Recensione di Tullio Masoni per “Cineforum”

Recensione del film di Stanley Kubrick "Il Bacio dell'assassino", di Tullio Masoni. Pubblicato in Cineforum n. 347, Settembre 1995

BARRY LYNDON – Kubrick’s Gilded Age, by Pauline Kael

Review of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, written by Pauline Kael and published in The New Yorker, December 29, 1975

ARANCIA MECCANICA – Speciale Cineforum

Speciale Arancia Meccanica pubblicato dalla rivista Cineforum nel 1973

IL CACCIATORE – E il carnefice si veste da vittima

Review of Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, published by Italian newspaper l’Unita’ on 28/02/1979

ORIZZONTI DI GLORIA – Analisi di Enrico Ghezzi, Il Castoro Cinema

Analysis of Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) by Enrico Ghezzi, Il Castoro Cinema

THE DEER HUNTER – The God-Bless-America symphony

Review of Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, written by Pauline Kael and published in The New Yorker, December 18, 1978

ELIE WIESEL – LA NOTTE – Testo italiano

Testo italiano completo de "La notte", romanzo autobiografico di Elie Wiesel che racconta le sue esperienze di prigioniero nei campi di concentramento di Auschwitz e Buchenwald negli anni 1944-1945.

LOLITA – A Screenplay

Prefazione di Vladimir Nabokov alla pubblicazione italiana della sceneggiatura che ha scritto adattando il suo romanzo. Kubrick utilizzerà ben poco di questa versione ma lascerà ugualmente a Nabokov il credit di unico autore dello script

EYES WIDE SHUT – Raccolta di recensioni italiane

Italian reviews of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

FULL METAL JACKET – Speciale Cineforum

Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket special published by Italian magazine Cineforum 269 in 1987

BARRY LYNDON – Sight and Sound movie review

Barry Lyndon (1976) movie review by Penelope Houston, Sight and Sound, Spring 1976

2001 – Un sogno svanisce nello spazio e crea un altro sogno nel tempo

Review and analysis of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, published by the Italian magazine Cineforum N.82, February 1969

The Fifth Seal (Az ötödik pecsét, 1976) by Zoltán Fábri

The film is set in Budapest towards the end of the Second World War. Four middle-aged men, conspicuously ordinary and everyday, meet up to drink at an inn...

Gigi Riva and Pele, World Cup final 1970

Football Fifa Mexico 1970 World Cup Final Brazil vs Italy 4-1 (Azteca Stadium-Mexico City, Mexico) Gigi Riva of Italy challenges with Pele of Brazil

ALFRED HITCHCOCK: MR. CHASTITY by Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci interviewed Alfred Hitchcock in 1963 when his movie The Birds screened in Cannes

ADDIO KUBRICK, IL CINEMA PERDE UNA LEGGENDA

Il regista è morto a 70 anni. Una vita segregata piena di misteri e fobie. Nei suoi film le angosce di mezzo secolo.

KUBRICK’S PERSONAL STAMP ON SPARTACUS

Spartacus had a powerful star and a politically committed screenwriter. So how did Stanley Kubrick put his personal stamp on the film, asks Henry Sheehan?

KING AND COUNTRY (1964): “WHAT BEAUTY IS THERE, WHAT ANGUISH”

The origin of King and Country was an actual incident in World War I involving a young enlisted man who was executed for desertion.

L’EPOPEA DI SPARTACO raccontata da Alain Decaux

La rivolta del gladiatore che fece tremare Roma rievocata da Alain Decaux, uno dei più noti e popolari scrittori francesi di storia.

Josef Sudek, Labyrinth in my Atelier, 1960

Joseph Sudek is known for patience, imagination and impeccable use of light; his romantic photographs of his native city have eared him the title of Poet of Prague. Wheter photographing his gardens, his marvelously cluttered desk or quiet settings in the Behemian countryside he softens his pictures with a misty eloquence.

FULL METAL JACKET, HAMBURGER HILL AND THE VIETNAM WAR

One dark legacy of the nation that had still not been put to rest by this time was the Vietnam War, which is evident in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and in the other notable combat film of the year, John Irvin's Hamburger Hill.

INTERVIEW WITH QUENTIN TARANTINO by Michel Ciment and Hubert Niogret (Cannes 1994)

Quentin Tarantino interviewed by Michel Ciment and Hubert Niogret for Positif magazine at Cannes festival in 1994

HARRY GREY – MANO ARMATA – Testo italiano

Italian translation of Harry Grey's novel The Hoods (it. Mano Armata), published by Longanesi. The book was the model for the film Once Upon a Time in America by Sergio Leone. MANO ARMATA Romanzo di HARRY GREY Traduzione dall'originale inglese The Hoods di Adriana Pellegrini Edizione Longanesi Milano CAPITOLO I COCKEYE HYMIE si piegò eccitato sul banco, con gli occhi azzurri completamente fuori squadra. Era...

FEAR AND DESIRE: KUBRICK “RIMOSSO” – di Paolo Cherchi Usai

Speciale sul film di Stanley Kubrick "Fear and Desire", pubblicato dalla rivista Segnocinema nel 1989

DOSSIER KUBRICK – Duel 70

Series of articles about Stanley Kubrick published by the Italian magazine Duel on the n.70 issue, June 1999 Perché Kubrick è un classico: Stanley o la luccicanza di Apollo di Marcello Walter Bruno Kubrick è un classico perché è il contrario del déjà vu. Il suo cinema cerca e trova (produce e offre allo sguardo) non immagini ma epifanie, apparizioni: non la...

JUVENTUS-ARGENTINOS JR. – Finale Coppa Intercontinentale 1985

Articolo del Guerin Sportivo dedicato alla finale di Coppa Intercontinentale vinta dalla Juventus contro l'Argentinos Juniors nel 1985

PATHS OF GLORY – Sight and Sound movie review

Review of Stanley Kubrick's movie "Paths of Glory", published by Sight and Sound in 1957