Seven years ago today, Stanley Kubrick died... (*dial-up*)

[edbermac]

July 26, 1928 - March 7, 1999...

Some scenes from SK's films and the man himself...Stanley, you are missed!!

[Call Me Wesley]

1. RIP, Stanley Kubrick.

One day I'll buy the book:

[DS1]

2. I'm looking at that Shining screen grab, and betting he had those ceiling

lights rearranged to look like that.

[Call Me Wesley]

3. I'm pretty sure he did.

He was obsessed with details. Unfortunately he lost it in 'Spartacus' a bit. Some of the freed slaves are still wearing wristwatches, and I think there was a scene where you could see a truck driving up a hill.

Also in 'Dr. Strangelove', there's a little scene where the Soviet ambassador almost cracks up about Peter Sellers.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. "Citizen Kubrick" - Jon Ronson at the Kubrick archives

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But this attention to detail becomes so amazingly evident and seemingly all-consuming in the later boxes, I begin to wonder whether it was worth it. In one portable cabin, for example, there are hundreds and hundreds of boxes related to Eyes Wide Shut, marked EWS - Portman Square, EWS - Kensington & Chelsea, etc, etc. I choose the one marked EWS - Islington because that's where I live. Inside are hundreds of photographs of doorways. The doorway of my local video shop, Century Video, is here, as is the doorway of my dry cleaner's, Spots Suede Services on Upper Street. Then, as I continue to flick through the photographs, I find, to my astonishment, pictures of the doorways of the houses in my own street. Handwritten at the top of these photographs are the words, "Hooker doorway?"

"Huh," I think. So somebody within the Kubrick organisation (it was, in fact, his nephew) once walked up my street, on Kubrick's orders, hoping to find a suitable doorway for a hooker in Eyes Wide Shut. It is both an extremely interesting find and a bit of a kick in the teeth.

It is not, though, as incredible a coincidence as it may at first seem. Judging by the writing on the boxes, probably just about every doorway in London has been captured and placed inside this cabin. This solves one mystery for me - the one about why Kubrick, a native of the Bronx, chose the St Albans countryside, of all places, for his home. I realise now that it didn't matter. It could have been anywhere. It is as if the whole world is to be found somewhere within this estate.

But was it worth it? Was the hooker doorway eventually picked for Eyes Wide Shut the quintessential hooker doorway? Back at home, I watch Eyes Wide Shut again on DVD. The hooker doorway looks exactly like any doorway you would find in Lower Manhattan - maybe on Canal Street or in the East Village. It is a red door, up some brownstone steps, with the number 265 painted on the glass at the top. Tom Cruise is pulled through the door by the hooker. The scene is over in a few seconds. (It was eventually shot on a set at Pinewood.)

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http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1177734,00.html

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Color me dumb, but WHAT do they look like?

I don't see anything special. Just some squares on the ceiling.

[DS1]

9. Nothing special

but I wouldn't put it past him to have them organized to draw attention towards the actors.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. I was looking for some hidden message

like "666" in Braille or something.

[DS1]

14. That would be wild

who knows, you might catch something nobody else has. That being said, he was more about every scene looking exactly the way he wanted than he was about hiding subtle little clues that other directors are so fond of these days

[rockymountaindem]

5. What's that one with the British army?

Never seen that...

[Call Me Wesley]

7. Do you mean the second pic?

French army:

"Paths Of Glory."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/

On edit: I'm an idiot. This one is:

"Barry Lyndon"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/

[rockymountaindem]

15. Paths of Glory is one of my favorite movies

The first time I saw it, I was ashamed to be a member of the human race. That movie stayed with me for days.

[Call Me Wesley]

16. Pretty powerful and honest.

And the actors work is just wonderful, expecially the cynicism of the highest ranks, when they just assume his effort was all about getting the one General out and taking over his job. This one scene was just breathtaking.

There's another wonderful movie playing within this era, but I don't know if it's available in English:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066511/

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

8. He left such us a fantastic body of work

(and yes, for me that includes Eyes Wide Shut :) )

(Not scanned by me) Here are 3 stills from the original ending to The Shining which Kubrick cut a week after it opened. (And he didn't stop there!) They are taken, AFAIK, from The Stanley Kubrick Archives mentioned above.

[Crazy Dave]

10. I loved this guy, Sgt. Hartman

"What is your major malfunction numb-nuts?!?"

[kwassa]

12. Much good stuff, but "Eyes Wide Shut" was awful, and

"Barry Lyndon" put me to sleep.

Great overall body of work, though.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. What the heck was the first pic?

[Call Me Wesley]

17. "The Killing."

Never saw that one, and he actually made a few more movies than provided here by pictures.

More about "The Killing":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049406/