Kubrick, Kubrick, Kubrick—two new movies, apps, and more

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      While we’re very eagerly awaiting the Shining doc, Room 237, the posthumous feast of Stanley continues in other ways:

      First off, Matthew Modine’s Full Metal Jacket Diary has been developed into an iPad app in time for the film’s 25th anniversary. Modine was encouraged by Kubrick to write the diary and otherwise document his experiences on the film—which, typically, ended up devouring the young actor’s life for two years.

      Modine published the diary as a limited edition book in 2005. WIRED’s Gadget Lab calls the digital version “about as close to a behind-the-scenes documentary as you can get without actual video.” There’s a fantastic interview with the actor here, at Entertainment Weekly.

      Meanwhile, The Shining is finally getting its first full-length theatrical release in the UK. The director trimmed about 24 minutes from the film after a poorly received opening in the States. Not that it made much difference: I remember Barry Norman, probably the UK’s most well-known film critic at the time, complaining that Kubrick had attempted every genre in his career “and failed at all of them.”

      Finally, it looks like two unfilmed Kubrick screenplays are going into production, courtesy of Entertainment One. Downslope, set during the American Civil War, is being touted as a TV movie, while God Fearing Man, about priest-turned-bankrobber Herbert Emerson Wilson, will be turned into a mini-series. Mercifully, neither project involves Steven Spielberg.

      And with that, this:

      Kubrick // One-Point Perspective from kogonada on Vimeo.

      You can follow Adrian Mack's contribution to the lobotomizing techno-nightmare known as Twitter at @AdrianMacked.

      Comments

      5 Comments

      HellSlayerAndy

      Aug 29, 2012 at 4:14pm

      AI...great story, terrible terrible treatment.

      Isn't it odd that watching even seconds of a Spielberg movie, you wish you never sat through a good deal of them, but when I watched One-Point Perspective it makes you want to SEE all those Kubrick movies over again.

      Weird.

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      out at night

      Aug 29, 2012 at 8:34pm

      Huge huge Kubrick fan and as for Spielberg, besides Jaws, Duel, Sugarland Express and maybe Raiders of the Lost Ark (and maybe one or two others I'm forgetting) I find his films pretty saccharine. But I do consider A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the film Spielberg made with Kubrick essentially, one of the great works of the entire Science fiction genre. A.I. synthesizes the human story, catapults it forwards in time and brings in so many rich cultural signposts including religious and classic fiction imagery and metaphors. I consider it Stanley's last film. Give credit to Spielberg when it's due. I might just go see Lincoln.

      HellSlayerAndy

      Aug 30, 2012 at 10:45am

      Oh my.... 'out at night' and I mean this in the most classic Van film snob way....yer an idiot and don't appreciate film.

      viffster

      Aug 30, 2012 at 6:05pm

      Room 237 is screening in VIFF. And The Shining will show twice the week after the festival at the Vancity Theatre in a brand new DCP print.

      out at night

      Sep 1, 2012 at 7:48pm

      HellSlayerAndy

      You can't BE a Van film snob. Snobbery implies a high-falutin pedigree and this is the town of movie-biz punchlines, where The Redeadening was filmed (oh look it up!)

      When the esteemed journal Film Comment came out with their annual year in review of 2001, A.I. made many of the top ten lists compiled by an impressive roster of international cineastes; and though some critics did pan the movie, I'm in pretty good company if you care to check out who liked it and who didn't. You're with Leonard Maltin my friend. I'm down with Armond White who wrote: "each part of David’s journey through carnal and sexual universes into the final eschatological devastation becomes as profoundly philosophical and contemplative as anything by cinema’s most thoughtful, speculative artists–Borzage, Ozu, Demy, Tarkovsky."

      So there. Watch it again, and this time remember, those aren't aliens at the end, they're robots!