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Channel 4 in the United Kingdom has fastidiously replicated the soundstage of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining -- with recreated sets, props, and lookalike actors -- for a 65-second commercial about upcoming broadcasts of the director's films. Even the bear/dog/walrus costume makes an appearance. (thx, jmd) (2) #
7/11/2008

This is five years old, but it's the first time I've seen it: A somewhat successful recovery of the source images used to generate the "stargate sequence" at the end of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, done with a program that reverses the slit-scanning technique used by the filmmakers. (via bb) (2) #
6/22/2007

The New York Times is reporting that a long lost Stanley Kubrick film treatment, called Lunatic at Large, will finally be made into a movie. It's from his Paths of Glory and The Killing era, so I'm not exactly expecting masterpiece, but they're planning to set the new movie in its original setting, the 50's. I'm still hoping that Kubrick's Napoleon script gets produced. My suggestion for the director: Darren Aronofsky. (5) #
11/1/2006

Jeffrey Bernstein also has an 84 page shot-by-shot analysis of the first half of Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. I agree with Bernstein that EWS is underrated, but this verges on scholarly logorrhea. He saw the film seven times within the first three weeks release, and more than a hundred times since. Perhaps he should publish a 15-20 page summary of his most salient points? (4) #
8/10/2006

Jeffrey Bernstein, a Kubrick scholar, shows how "Kubrick’s use of the zoom movement in Barry Lyndon is the most elaborate and sustained use of zoom movement ever seen in a film," and film blogger Jim Emerson shows an example. (3) #
8/9/2006

Composer György Ligeti dead at age 83. His work is most famous for being used in several Stanley Kubrick films: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Ligeti wasn't thrilled), The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut (the repetitive two-note piano line). (1) #
6/12/2006

Word is that a DVD of the uncensored version of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut will finally be released in the United States this year, seven years after the film's original release in 1999. (7) #
2/8/2006