NP: Kubrick Bio Rec

[Steven Koteff]

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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