GENRE THEORY AND “THE SHINING”
14/03/2017
Toward a Post-structural Influence in Film Genre Study: Intertextuality and The Shining. Essay by Walter Metz
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Eyes Wide Shut: What the Critics Failed to See in Kubrick’s Last Film | by Lee Siegel [Harper’s Magazine]
09/03/2017
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
09/03/2017
by Timothy J. Gilfoyle In December 2002, Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York opened to critical acclaim. The Chicago Tribune’s Michael Wilmington described the motion
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | Review by Dilys Powell
06/03/2017
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
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940): THEMATIC EMPHASIS THROUGH VISUAL STYLE
06/03/2017
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
Apocalypse Now (1979): Joseph Conrad and the Television War
01/03/2017
“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 an Dr. Strangelove
28/02/2017
This study will point out how Dr. Strangelove is a sex allegory: from foreplay to explosion in the mechanized world.
L’ANNO DEL DRAGONE – Recensione di Gualtiero De Marinis per “Cineforum”
24/02/2017
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
23/02/2017
«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.
Platoon (1986) – Review by Pauline Kael
22/02/2017
Pauline Kael reviews Oliver Stone’s “Platoon”. Published in “The New Yorker”, January 12, 1987
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BEHIND THE SCENES OF “THE SHINING” WITH SCATMAN CROTHERS
14/02/2017
“I wanted to play the part of Dick Halloran before I even knew that they were going to make the movie,” says Scatman Crothers
MARTIN SCORSESE: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1991)
09/02/2017
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
09/02/2017
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)
08/02/2017
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
07/02/2017
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
06/02/2017
Giovanni Grazzini recensisce “Arancia Meccanica” di Stanley Kubrick. Corriere della Sera, 24 agosto 1972
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – CATCHER IN THE MILKY-WAY
03/02/2017
Paul Schrader reviews Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Published in ‘Spectacle’, September 13, 1968
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE: DREAD AND DESIRE
01/02/2017
Aching desire and repression and guilt collide in Scorsese’s version of Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’
THE ARTFUL PROPAGANDA OF FORD’S “THE GRAPES OF WRATH”
28/01/2017
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)
27/01/2017
American director Francis Ford Coppola interviewed by William Murray for Playboy magazine, July 1975 issue
PATHS OF GLORY – Review by Bosley Crowther
26/01/2017
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
26/01/2017
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
26/01/2017
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)
26/01/2017
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.
Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus
23/01/2017
In the following essay, Charles Maland discusses how Dr. Strangelove functions as a response to the American nuclear policy of the early 1960s
EYES WIDE SHUT: STANLEY, TOM AND NICOLE—THREE OF A KIND
22/01/2017
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
22/01/2017
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
22/01/2017
E se “Arancia meccanica” fosse il primo metafilm di tutto il cinema postmoderno? Saggio di Marcello Walter Bruno
ARANCIA MECCANICA E LOLITA: KUBRICK REPLAY
22/01/2017
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
22/01/2017
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.