NP: Kubrick Bio Rec

[Johnny Marr]

It's by Margaret Stackhouse. I'm struggling to send links (or to type
competently for that matter) on this phone, but a bit of Googling will dig
it up soon enough for anybody interested.

On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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>
>> 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>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> what did Sis think about it?☺
>>>>
>>>> P
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Steven Koteff <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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