NP: Kubrick Bio Rec

[Jan Devenish]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/the-perfect-christmas-present-for-fans-of-the-shi#.kmVmkJPKO

On 28 November 2015 at 19:07, 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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