Room 237
There exists a rare species of obsessive moviegoer, the hyper-fan who focuses on one film, mentally and emotionally ingesting it dozens, maybe hundreds, of times. Along a certain parallel, there is also a serious breed of conspiracy theorist, compulsive in his or her beliefs, taking things far beyond just watching Doomsday Preppers for fun. Put these two types together, and you get Room 237, the confounding, eye-opening, and often hilarious documentary about individuals whose over-wired brains are devoted to one cinematic masterpiece: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsSteven Spielberg to Develop Stanley Kubrick's "Napoleon" Script as TV Miniseries
In an interview with the French TV network Canal+, Steven Spielberg revealed that he has been working on adapting Stanley Kubrick’s unproduced screenplay about the life of Napoleon as a TV minisries. read more
Found in: Movies, NewsPaste's Holiday Gift Guide For Movie Lovers
The holiday season is always a great time for movie lovers. Before the year is out, movie fans have options ranging from The Muppets to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. But why let the fun stop at the theater? Here are 10 great ideas to get your favorite movie lover. read more
Found in: Blogs, FestivusAnthony Burgess's Musical Adaptation of A Clockwork Orange Scheduled to Debut
Almost a decade after his death, songs from author Anthony Burgess’s musical adaption of his own grimly violent novel, A Clockwork Orange, are scheduled to make their stage debut.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsCiné Files: Dr. Strangelove's Real-Life Doomsday Machine
Like so many people who enjoy watching (and overanalyzing) movies, it was inevitable that I would fall in love with the films of Stanley Kubrick. It started with 2001: A Space Odyssey, and it wasn’t long before I discovered my favorite movie of all time, and one that I think is a strong contender for Greatest Film of All-Time: Kubrick’s 1964 black comedy masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.... read more
Found in: Movies, ColumnsSalute Your Shorts: Stanley Kubrick's Documentaries
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored. A couple weeks back, some of my colleagues decided to cast a few of the “lost” Stanley Kubrick films because of news that one of his abandoned screenplays, Lunatic at Large, is heading into production. Like most writer/directors, Kubrick worked on a number of scripts and did large amounts of pre-production for films that were never completed (anyone who studies Orson Welles won’t even be able to give you a ballpark of how... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesPaste Casts the Five Remaining "Lost" Stanley Kubrick Films
Last week, word emerged that one of Stanley Kubrick’s long lost film scripts, Lunatic at Large, would be brought to the big screen, some 50 plus years after Kubrick abandoned the project to work on Spartacus. According to The New York Times, the film, a mystery about a mental asylum escapee set in New York City during the ‘50s, was found by Kubrick’s son-in-law among trunks of papers left behind after the filmmaker’s death in 1999. The main story centers on an ex-carnival worker with anger-management issues who seduces a bar floozy. Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell have signed on... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayStraight Outta Brompton: N.W.A. and A Clockwork Orange
A Cliffs Notes summary of N.W.A.’s 1988 breakthrough Straight Outta Compton might look something like this: Senseless beatdowns. Misogyny-by-numbers. Gangland murder masquerading as casual, cruel bloodsport... read more
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