NP: Kubrick Bio Rec

[Jochen Stremmel]

You were right, Johnny: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0009.html.

Thank you.

2015-12-01 22:20 GMT+01:00 Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com>:

> 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>
>> 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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