I'm confused. Are you saying that Kubrick is intellectual? The people who greenlight Hollywood movies know nothing of cinema history. They're too busy counting their money from Third-World sweatshops and donut shops.
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Watch this and tell me Kubrick isn't intellectual.
Watch this and tell me Kubrick isn't intellectual.
Of course the majority love him, that's why Hollywood's making so many intelligent, dare I say it, intellectual films these days. Oh, the money they make.
If I've misunderstood either of your guys' comments, let me know; I'm just sorta jumping into the conversation here.
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the angel stayed until something died, one more murder suicide
the angel stayed until something died, one more murder suicide
I believe that the Powers That Be had already beaten down the gang in The Killing before the movie even started,
whether it's Criminal Justice or your wife.
whether it's Criminal Justice or your wife.
Are you saying that General Ripper is responsible for the Doomsday Device detonation . . .
It was Ripper--one crazed, individual--who got the ball rolling. He wasn't responsible for the Doomsday gimmick; he didn't build it or even know about it. But it was his individual, private decision that led to its detonation. The Powers that Be built it but didn't want to use it. But they failed to realize that it only took one crazed squadron commander to set it off. A failure of the power of the Powers to Be; the Pyrrhic success of the individual.
By your way of thinking, the ingenious bomber crew is just as much responsible for the End of the World.
In the Big Picture of Full Metal Jacket, Gunnery Sgt. Hartman is a small fry compared to the entire American Military Complex, but he did his best for many years to turn his men into killers and he succeede all too well.
Of course there are other directors who hold up that mirror. It's just that few seem to divide audiences so much with the majority loving him and watching his films repeatedly while a vocal minority hates him and is almost repelled by his flicks.
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KUBRICK: A TOUCH OF THE INEFFABLE
Stanley Kubrick(1928-1999) began directing films the year my family first had its contact with the Baha’i Faith, 1953. I was nine at the time. Kubrick died one week after the release of his last film on March 1st 1999. I was, at the time, in the last month of my life as a full-time teacher before my retirement at the age of 55.
I write this poem because of Kubrick’s qualities as a film maker in the second half of the first century of the history of film: 1895-1995. He was a man obsessed by film. He pushed himself and those he worked with to the limit. He had a passion, an intensity, which turned his perceptions of the world and what was wrong with it into art. His films and my life followed each other in my adolescence and my adulthood. With this television, this documentary, series on Kubrick, I caught a new appreciation of the man and his work. -Ron Price with thanks to SBS TV, “Masterpiece: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures-Part 3,” 10:00-10:55 pm, June 22, 2004.
What was that force within you, Stanley?
An impressionability?
An obedience to inspiration?
a force majeure?
A conversation with eternal wisdom?
What produced the heart, the core
of your experience with cinema?
What gave it its existence
As you created yourself
like a high-tension wire
discharging images
for half a century?(1)
You created the world anew,
Stanley, from silence, memory
& some menacing external vacuity,
some otherness, some temporality
gushing onto the screen
with everything you touched
relieving your overburdened mind(2)
giving everything a touch of the ineffable.
(1) Novalis in The Bow and the Lyre, Octavio Paz, University of Texas, Austin, 1956, p.154.
(2) Howard Nemerov in The Seamless Web, Stanley Burnshaw, Penguin Press, 1970, p.179.
Ron Price
June 24, 2004
Stanley Kubrick(1928-1999) began directing films the year my family first had its contact with the Baha’i Faith, 1953. I was nine at the time. Kubrick died one week after the release of his last film on March 1st 1999. I was, at the time, in the last month of my life as a full-time teacher before my retirement at the age of 55.
I write this poem because of Kubrick’s qualities as a film maker in the second half of the first century of the history of film: 1895-1995. He was a man obsessed by film. He pushed himself and those he worked with to the limit. He had a passion, an intensity, which turned his perceptions of the world and what was wrong with it into art. His films and my life followed each other in my adolescence and my adulthood. With this television, this documentary, series on Kubrick, I caught a new appreciation of the man and his work. -Ron Price with thanks to SBS TV, “Masterpiece: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures-Part 3,” 10:00-10:55 pm, June 22, 2004.
What was that force within you, Stanley?
An impressionability?
An obedience to inspiration?
a force majeure?
A conversation with eternal wisdom?
What produced the heart, the core
of your experience with cinema?
What gave it its existence
As you created yourself
like a high-tension wire
discharging images
for half a century?(1)
You created the world anew,
Stanley, from silence, memory
& some menacing external vacuity,
some otherness, some temporality
gushing onto the screen
with everything you touched
relieving your overburdened mind(2)
giving everything a touch of the ineffable.
(1) Novalis in The Bow and the Lyre, Octavio Paz, University of Texas, Austin, 1956, p.154.
(2) Howard Nemerov in The Seamless Web, Stanley Burnshaw, Penguin Press, 1970, p.179.
Ron Price
June 24, 2004
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He seems to like talking about television channels on a number of boards, mostly ABC and never comes back to reply.
A Clockwork Orange for me.
A Clockwork Orange for me.
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Barry Lyndon
2001 is close though, but if there is one Kubrick film that I say "Man, I kind of want to watch that again" and then get so involved I watch it all, it's this movie. Barry Lyndon
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Oh, Ron.
I remember back in the day at moviejustice.com he would post/spam there. He was always a mystery because you never knew if he was some crazy old guy or some kid pretending to be a crazy old guy.
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I think Dr. Strangelove is the best. Peter Sellers makes anything better and he's just amazing in this.
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I consider him the greatest director who ever lived. His films are intellectually challenging, visually pleasing, (as Spielberg once admitted, "No body could shoot a movie better than Stanley Kubrick, in history."), as well as entertaining. My ratings:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey A+
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb A+
3. Barry Lyndon A+
4. A Clockwork Orange A+
5. Paths of Glory A+
6. The Shining A
7. Full Metal Jacket A
8. The Killing A
9. Eyes Wide Shut A-
10. Lolita B+
11. Killer's Kiss B
12. Spartacus B
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb A+
3. Barry Lyndon A+
4. A Clockwork Orange A+
5. Paths of Glory A+
6. The Shining A
7. Full Metal Jacket A
8. The Killing A
9. Eyes Wide Shut A-
10. Lolita B+
11. Killer's Kiss B
12. Spartacus B
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-Stan Brakhage
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
-Stan Brakhage
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I can't figure out who Ron Price is. .
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Mine is probably A Clockwork Orange followed by The Shining. I really need to watch Dr. Strangelove.... I've been meaning to for years now.
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1. A Clockwork Orange A+
2. Paths Of Glory A+
3. Full Metal Jacket A
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey A
5. Spartacus A-
6. Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb B
7. The Shining C+
2. Paths Of Glory A+
3. Full Metal Jacket A
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey A
5. Spartacus A-
6. Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb B
7. The Shining C+
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