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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) | Transcript
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
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Aryan Papers: Stanley Kubrick’s Abandoned Holocaust Film
Aryan Papers is a project that was supposed to be directed and written by Stanley Kubrick but was never finished.
Faithfulness: A “Vision” of Stanley Kubrick’s Last Three Films – By Richmond B. Adams
Stanley Kubrick, it appears, has raised many of the same questions through his films as Nathaniel Hawthorne did with his writing. In fact,…
Shining (1980) – di Enrico Ghezzi [Il Castoro Cinema]
Vedere, rivedere, stravedere. Sarà possibile inventare uno «stravedere» come possibile ulteriore significato di «to overlook». In ogni caso, Shining è un film da…
Gilles Deleuze: The Cinema of the Brain
Give me a brain - The cinema of the brain and the question of death (Kubrick, Resnais) - The two fundamental changes from…
Kubrick and His Discontents – By Hans Feldmann
Since the recognized success of Dr. Strangelove, objections to Kubrick's obscurity, his enigmatic mind, his bleak view of man, his simplistic view of…
2001: A Space Odyssey – Review by John Simon
2001: A Space Odyssey is fascinating when it concentrates on apes or machines, and dreadful when it deals with the in-betweens: humans. For…
The Shining (1980): Jack the Ripper – By Douglas Brode
Jack has consistently avoided the movie-star trap of appearing in a string of safe, conventional movies by involving himself with films made by…
Barry lyndon – di Enrico Ghezzi [Il Castoro Cinema]
Barry Lyndon non ha bisogno di chiamarsi Settecento. Se il titolo in Bertolucci indica l’intenzione astratta di definire storicamente quello che – dalla…
The Pluck of ‘Barry Lyndon’ – Review by Jonathan Rosenbaum
So Barry Lyndon is a failure. So what? How many “successes” have you seen lately that are half as interesting or accomplished, that…
Cimino, kubrick E il gioco dell’identità E della differenza – di Guido Barlozzetti
Da Nang è lontana da Montelepre. La storia di Salvatore Giuliano e la guerra del Vietnam non si consumano sotto lo stesso cielo.…
Stephen King on Carrie, the Shining, Etc. – Interview by Peter S. Perakos [Cinefantastique]
In this exclusive interview, Stephen King discusses his past work, his inspirations, his attitudes toward the genre, and his future projects.
‘Barry Lyndon’: Kubrick’s Latest Has Brains and Beauty
Barry Lyndon is a leisurely, serious, witty, inordinately beautiful, premium-length screen adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's first novel, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon,…
Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ Is Brilliant in Its Images – Review by Vincent Canby
Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick's handsome, assured screen adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's first novel, is so long and leisurely, so panoramic in its…
A Clockwork Orange – Review by Dale Winogura [Cinefantastique]
Stanley Kubrick has topped a masterpiece with a masterpiece. A Clockwork Orange is not the best Anglo-Saxon language film of 1971, it is…
2001: A Space Odyssey: Plans That Go Wrong – Review by Philip French
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is remarkable on a number of counts. Firstly, it is perhaps the first multi-million-dollar supercolossal movie since…
The Shining – Review by John Hofsess
"The Shining" is not Kubrick's greatest film or his greatest gamble, but it is his most ambitious attempt to connect with a mass…
2001: A Space Odyssey – Review by John Hofsess
2001 no less than Dr. Strangelove is an apocalyptic vision: it i is an alternate future but no less pessimistic. Beneath its austerely…
2001: A Space Odyssey – Reviews by Louise Sweeney and John Allen [the Christian Science Monitor]
Louise Sweeney, New York-based film critic for The Christian Science Monitor, wrote a generally favorable review following the New York premiere of 2001:…
2001: A Space Odyssey – Review by Charles Champlin [the Los Angeles Times]
Any annoyance over the ending—if indeed it is widely felt—cannot really compromise Kubrick’s epic achievement, his mastery of the techniques of screen sight…
2001: A Space Odyssey – The Harvard Crimson Review
After we have seen a stewardess walk up a wall and across the ceiling early in the film, we no longer question similar…
Stephen King on the Big Screen: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘the Shining’ – By Mark Browning
Far from showing an ignorance of horror, as King asserts, the film shows Kubrick's depth of knowledge of film form and its possibilities.
Full Metal Jacket: Blank Cartridge – Review by Stanley Kauffmann
Full Metal Jacket betrays Kubrick’s avant-garde admirers.
Spartacus (1960) – Recensione di Ernesto G. Laura
Spartacus ha il pregio di inserire una voce autentica nella grande produzione di Hollywood e dunque di incidere sul gusto di milioni di…
2001: A Space Odyssey: Douglas Trumbull on Stanley Kubrick’s Science Fiction Epic – By Dan Persons
With 2001, we learned the real depth and mass of space, and discovered that “The Ultimate Trip” was going to be a cold,…