The Shining (1980) | Transcript
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the…
The Shining (1980)
The Shining – Review by Stanley Kauffmann
The Shining doesn’t scare. The only pang in it is that it’s another step in Kubrick’s descent.
The Shining (1980) – Review by Richard Schickel
By taking a book by an author who is at the center of the craze for the supernatural, and turning it into a refusal of and subtle comment on that loopy cultural…
The Black Maria Rides Again: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
In this essay on The Shining, Paul Miers asserts that “to understand Kubrick's achievement one must attempt a reading of the mass-market book on which it is based.”
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, they seem to share similar psychologically based images despite…
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 vedere rivedere stravedere, portando la «stravisione» oltre l’intransitività dello…
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 off-center creative artists involved in honest efforts to put…
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.
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 audience.
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.
From Domestic Nightmares to the Nightmare of History. Uncanny Eruptions of Violence in King’s and Kubrick’s Versions of ‘The Shining’
The impact of past violence on the present is examined in the novel and film versions of The Shining. John Lutz’s essay pinpoints in these works three interrelated elements of what Freud…
SHINING: INCERTEZZA MORALE – di Giorgio Cremonini
Il presente contributo di Giorgio Cremonini è inserito nel numero monografico intitolato "Quel che resta nella cornice", dedicato alla descrizione di alcune tra le più suggestive inquadrature della storia del cinema.
DIANE JOHNSON: WRITING ‘THE SHINING’
We each began by deconstructing King’s novel separately, reducing it to essential scenes, comparing our lists of scenes, and winnowing them down to a hundred or so. I tore bits of exposition…
TALKING ABOUT ‘THE SHINING’ WITH DIANE JOHNSON – by Larry McCaffery
The following conversation with writer Diane Johnson, excerpted from an extended interview conducted by Larry McCaffery, centers on her experience as the scriptwriter for Stanley Kubrick 's film The Shining.
THE SHINING: A NEW DEFINITION FOR “ULTIMATE HORROR” – by Jim Wynorski [Fangoria]
Both Kubrick and King merit congratulations for making The Shining one of the most overpowering experiences of horror ever committed to celluloid. It manages to treat intangible, elusive subjects—ghosts, demons, spirits and…
STANLEY KUBRICK’S THE SHINING – Review by Flo Leibowitz and Lynn Jeffress [Film Quarterly]
by Flo Leibowitz and Lynn Jeffress To all appearances, The Shining is simply a hopelessly clichéd gothic horror film. Can […]
Kubrick’S Shining | Review by Richard T. Jameson
The Shining is a horror movie only in the sense that all Kubrick’s mature work has been horror movies—films that constitute a Swiftian vision of inscrutable cosmic order, and of “the most…
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 […]
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
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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
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…
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.
EFFETTO “SHINING”: TECNICA ED ESPRESSIONE DELL’ULTIMO KUBRICK – di Paolo Cherchi Usai [Segnocinema]
The Shining, saggio di Paolo Cherchi Usai. Pubblicato in Segnocinema, n. 1, 1981
The Shining (1980) – Review by Janet Maslin [The New York Times]
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 [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.
Kubrick And ‘The Shining’ – by P. L. Titterington [Sight & Sound]
P.L. Titterington discusses the evolution of Kubrick’s style and the language of his ideas.
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)
The Shining (1980) – Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael's appreciative but skeptical review of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", The New Yorker, 1980