NP: Kubrick Bio Rec

[Johnny Marr]

I think Eyes Wide Shut is major Kubrick - it's his defining statement on
sexual identity, societal secrecy and individual reputation. Always find
something new in that film.

David Thomson claims that Kubrick locked Tom Cruise out of Nicole Kidman's
cuckolding scene, demanding a strictly closed set, that the actor credited
with playing the cicisbeo has no other recognised film or acting credits,
and that Kubrick spent an entire day filming them copulate, only to use
about five seconds worth of footage in the final cut.

I do have a loose theory that the final scene in 2001 is something of a
collation of mankind's greatest achievements throughout history gathered
together in a space-time continuum warp, as a final testament to mankind as
he (we?) begin to die out and find ourselves replaced (much like the apes
at the start of the film) by 'superior' beings.

Kubrick said the best and most intellectually rigorous analysis of 2001 he
had ever read was from a 15 year old girl who wrote to him privately with
his theories. I've read that letter and from distant memory it is very
impressive - I'll try to dig it out soon.

On Sunday, November 29, 2015, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the recommendations, Mark. Agreed on all counts, really. Spent
> yesterday trying to find car floor mats in the pattern of the carpet from *The
> Shining *but no luck. The blog is very cool--I'm glad people like you are
> out there, keeping blogs like these.
>
> And John, yes, *Eyes Wide Shut *has grown on me lately as well, even if
> it's not, what, Major Kubrick? The whole thing's fascinating, anyway. All
> of it elevated by what became of Cruise in the years after that movie
> (which you almost sense Kubrick playing with, ahead of time, way
> prescient).
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','steviekoteff at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Sis loved it, was deeply absorbed/moved. She's moderately-to-severely
>> bipolar, and so had a really rough teenagerhood. Dropped out of high
>> school, few hospital stays, etc. She is very, very smart but is so
>> sensitive and has spent much of her life in so emotionally precarious a
>> state that she has spent a lot of time shying away from art that is at all
>> high-stakes. She's been a voracious reader, but much of that has been,
>> like, harlequins.
>>
>> But lately she's been stable enough that I've been able to recommend
>> things to her, and she's been able to follow through. I'm sort of her
>> cultural gatekeeper so I'm basically trying my best to give her a
>> trajectory that probably apexes with her being able to appreciate something
>> like *GR*, to extract some of its wonders, etc. She can probably handle
>> it from there.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mackin.paul at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> what did Sis think about it?☺
>>>
>>> P
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','steviekoteff at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yesterday I got my sister very stoned and took her to see 2001. It was
>>>> playing at the Logan Theatre here in Chicago. Her first time seeing it
>>>> (she's 21) and the first time I'd seen it in theaters.
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure the movie and the director have been talked about ad mortem on
>>>> here but if anybody had anything to say about it I am all ears. I will
>>>> personally confess that I consider it an important part of my life, a work
>>>> of art that elicits genuine awe from me. Sometimes I put the scene of Hal's
>>>> deactivation on in the background on a loop while I work.
>>>>
>>>> Realized I've never actually read a Kubrick bio. Or anything about
>>>> him/his movies. Anybody have any recommendations? -
>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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