Tag: Kubrick
Meeting the man and movies that put us on the moon
Thoughts from a cinematic memoir written on Earth by Philippe Mora. In Los Angeles in 1979 I was making a film about the Sixties called The Times They Are A-Changin’ for Columbia and Casablanca, greenlit by Daniel Melnick, producer of All That Jazz. Because of some controversial content my film was eventually stopped before release…
Notes on Stanley Kubrick: Filmmaker, Artist, Voyeur
These notes were generated after seeing the catalogue of a major exhibition currently on at the Museum of New York City called Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs. It shows the young Kubrick’s expert eye in about 300 photographs, most from his precocious days as a Look photographer when he joined the staff at…
Why the Space in Outer-Space Movies Should Be Silent
In space, the tagline for Alien (1979) once noted, no one can hear you scream. Apparently, everybody can hear Death Stars and intergalactic starships explode, though, while laser beams pew-pew-pew through the ether. Someone, please, someone give the world a film where the no-atmosphere environment is nice and quiet. Hollywood offers a culture of standards.…
A bit of background: Why the screen should be the star
Whenever I see a screen used properly in a movie, I want to jump up and down while doing the Macarena. OK, maybe that verges on the impossible. But it speaks to my love of this lowly, oft-used tool – which usually takes the form of a flat surface on which images are projected behind…
Stanley Kubrick: Remembering the past, present, future, and the eternal return of the family in four films
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick may have been correct in assigning Richard Strauss to the apes and Johann Strauss to the spacemen. Standing somewhere in the middle of this evolution, I wonder which creature has it worse, the screeching primate or the cosmic amphibian. Certainly, our robotic dullard of the future could…