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Stanley Kubrick Dies
Anthony Fuentes wrote in
to tell us that Stanley Kubrick is dead.
The director of so many amazing movies including The Shining,
Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, and of course 2001: A
Space Odyssey. He truly was a genius. He'll be missed.
I was thinking the exact same thing, there seems to be a lot more people dying lately.. :)
// mayhexx (lazy coward)
Must be a millennial thing
According to NPR this morning, it will still be released on schedule this year.
Eh???? What do you want, moron? Pictures of the poor fellow lying there dead in his own excrements or what? Maybe an mpeg animation of his last twitchings? Or an .mp3 of his last breath perhaps.
From Yahoo News
Warner Bros. Co-Chief Executive Officers Daly and Semel said in a statement that they were ``deeply saddened by the loss of Stanley Kubrick, a towering figure in the world of film and a deeply loved and respected member of the Warner family for nearly three decades.
``Stanley's unique vision and protean abilities as a filmmaker have fascinated and inspired audiences and colleagues for almost a half-century; we join them in extending our heartfelt sympathies to Stanley's widow, Christiane, and his daughters, Katharine, Anya and Vivian.
``We were fortunate to have screened the just-completed 'Eyes Wide Shut,' Stanley's final picture, last week. It is a fantastic movie and a fitting close to a tremendous career. We look forward to sharing this movie when it is released as planned this summer and believe that it is a tribute to a remarkable and unforgettable man. We will miss him very much.''
There was also another news release I saw elsewhere that said Eyes Wide Shut would be released as scheduled in the U.S. on July 16. So we will get to bask in the Masters magic one last time.
His body may have gone but his spirit will live on as long as there are people who love true artistic genius.
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We'll meet again
Don't know where
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again
Some sunny day.....
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That's not the point. Kubrick maintained strict control over his films. He would reject a print because the color balance was wrong in a single frame. Now that he's dead, who will get the final cut of "Eyes Wide Shut?" That is the issue.
With Stanley Kubrick alive, no one would be allowed to touch it. Now that he's gone, will the studio butcher it to placate the Ratings Board? Remember the studio cut of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil?" I shudder at the thought of someone touching Kubrick's last film.
...before hand that he was dying, then we could have taken up a collection to have the fucker frozen. Even if we wouldn't be able to revive him in the future at least we could poke his frozen arse with a stick every now and then!
Bill S B
I had just seen "Clockwork Orange" this last week and "Dr. Strangelove" today. I guess I have been subconciously gearing up for "Eyes Wide Shut".
I am saddened to hear this news.
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No, that was Ridley Scott's movie. I can't give a source, but I have heard it stated that, in Kubrick's opinion, Blade Runner was the most beautiful movie ever made.
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Maybe that wasn't rude of you, just ignorant. Kubrick wasn't the kind of guy to have an official website, though.
Here's the Yahoo list o' Stanley Kubrick fan sites, if it helps:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Fil
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Weird... I could swear that link in the original posting was to a different article from BBC. In fact, I remember it was linked to the article "Movie pioneer Kubrick dies" and not "Kubrick: A film odyssey". So either the BBC changed their pages or somebody changed the Slashdot link. Oh well. Whatever
May I suggest getting a life?
my list of favorite movies looks more like a listing of stanley kubricks life works -- i too will miss him. thank you mr. kubrick.
Now would be a good time IMHO to finally allow A Clockwork Orange to be sold on video in the UK - a huge injustice that a lot of brits have never seen it...
What about AI, the film he was going to make after EWS? I've heard rumors that he's been filming with the boy actor from Jurassic Park for the last couple of years, supposedly tracking his development as he is taken care of by machines. As far as Eyes Wide Shut, I think they'll come out with a finished version done by a stand-in director, then come out with the superlong, original cut he did last year, kind of like dune.
Well, 'tis slightly evident by the quality of the grammar and so on that whoever posted that drivel is a little lacking upstairs. I'm normally not one for personal attacks, but this was ridiculous. Oh well. I personally have highly enjoyed the couple of Kubrick movies I've seen. And I was looking forward to Eyes Wide Shut...I'm glad to hear it'll still be released. Now if he had the final cut ready yet is still to be seen.
It's time to mourn the passing of another great director. *sigh* We've had Akira Kurosawa and Sam Fuller die within the last couple of years. Now Kubrick. Hopefully Bergman will stay with us for a while.
The question now is, what will happen to Eyes Wide Shut?
And it's not even a creative Troll at that.
Clockwork Orange is the best film I've ever seen, and 2001 made people think about time and space. IT is a sad day.
No one's yet mentioned this one, but it's one of my favourites -- a beautiful film, although it may have lacked the grandeur of 2001 or the apocalyptic subject matter of Dr. Strangelove.
*lifts morning coffee cup* Here's to you, Mr. Kubrick. Ya did good.
I heard this on the radio and Tv but that doesn't mean its true!!
I hread that Harvey Keitel was to be in the movie. There was this scene where he supposed to be jacking off above Kidman's head. Well he is a "method actor" and suddenly she's feeling something wet on her head!!! He said he was sorry but he was getting into the scene. 9-O Anyhow ol sissy tom cruise gets mad that this happens to his beautiful wife and demands that keitel goes or Cruise and Nicole Kidman go. So they had to reshoot the movie w/o harvey in certain scenes.
Anybody else hear this story?
I think that Blade Runner IS one of the best and most beautiful movies ever made - but I would be hard pressed to choose between it and 2001.
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Lots of famous people falling down dead these days...
RIP Stanley.
It's a good thing Kubrick got the f*** out of the US. Any artist who cares about his/her work should flee to the UK or Europe, where every aspect of life isn't controlled by corporate swine. Yet.
Ridley Scott != Stanley Kubrick
You're not alone, I liked that film too.
I have to respectfully disagree with you. Although Kubrick is one of the greatest directors, my vote for the best goes to Akira Kurosawa. Unfortunately, Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (who appeared in several Kurosawa films) also recently passed away. Kurosawa films that I liked the most are, "Rashomon", "Seven Samurai", "Yojimbo", and "Ran".
The following is some info for those not familiar with Kurosawa's films. "Rashomon" showed a rape and murder thru the perspective (flashbacks) of several of the participants. The storyline in "Seven Samurai" was reused in the "Magnificent Seven"; hired pros come to protect a village from bandits. "Yojimbo" was the precursor to the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns; mysterious loner appears in a town with two warring factions. "Ran" was King Lear set in Japan.
Please don't get me wrong, Kubrick was great. IMHO, Kurosawa was just a bit better.
It will probably be canceled and all work done so far destroyed. The man was quite eccentric and NEVER released anything until it was perfect (in his, and most other peoples, opinion). That's what made him great.
I would not be surprised if the destruction of all uncompleted work was written in his will.
Settle down all he wanted was to know where this information. Not that we don't trust Slashdot, but some sort of source would be extra nice.
A marginally clever troll, but still a troll.
I agree whith AC.
There are some clear scenes on his movies where we can find subliminal messages, like the "clockwork orange" scene when it is showed very fast a lot of sexual pictures. If you analise this movie well, you can clearly see that it incites violence, sexual problems and obedience. It was such a brainwash that many people says it was the seed of the punk movement.
Same can be said about his other movies. 2001 was released just before the computer science boom - can you see the relation? Just ask people on science (specially computer science) about what is the best movie he ever watched - he will say it is "2001".
Now, I will make you think on what role "Dr. Strangelove" has on U.S. society transformation. Research and think about what happened a little before the film was released. It is not hard.
I could talk so much more about those movies...
Eyes Wide Shut, for example - to incentive sexuality on people (that government have been taking away using the television and movies since the 30's) and create a baby boom, this is what U.S. government most want now because as you know U.S. population is shrinking because of so many brainwash againt sexuality that he made.
His movies were subsidiated by the goverment to change people's mind and to make with them whatever the government wanted.
Now he must be burning in hell, having to watch all his movies to all eternity hehehe.
This is the Yahoo story about Kubrick from Reuters. Warner Bros. states "the film was completed and was shown to the two top executives at Warner Bros., studio heads Terry Semel and Robert
Daley, and to Kidman and Cruise last week in London. 'It will be released as planned in the United States on July 16,' the spokeswoman said."
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2001 was one of the first memorable movies my father took me to also. Kubrick has been a director I've watched ever since. I guess it's an inevitable result of aging, but I'll miss the creator of such films as he has mad...
Jim
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It's too bad he'll never see the reaction to his super-secret Eyes Wide Shut.
It seems like more famous people have been dying lately. Is this just something that gets true as you age?
IMHO, his best work. He will be missed.
According to one of the fan pages linked off imdb's Eyes Wide Shut entry, this was just a rumor (look for the phrase "going Presidential" :). Keitel left beause the shooting went on for too long, and he was committed to another movie that he eventually had to go work on. Kubrick had only shot a fraction of Keitel's scenes so far, so they had to go back and re-shoot them with another actor.
Thank god there's another person out there who recognizes that Barry Lyndon is an under-rated work of genius. Perhaps one of my favorite films of his, or of any.
The world has now lost one of it's last true artists. From the days of his begining right up until Eyes Wide Shut, His films have been art right up to the shot. No other director ever held his work in such high regard. His actors were transformed into tools of his vision. Nothing was ever compromised. Any true film buff must acknowledge that every one of his images, every last shot, and every single line of dialog was skillfully crafted and created a complete story, every detail being thought out. Turely, Stanley was the lat artist in the industry. He did it all, and did it better than anyone else. He will be sorely missed.
The World is a little better today.
Kubrick was one of the most evil Holywood director and producer. Since his first film he was using subliminal and not so subliminal messages to persuade and make mass brainwash on the people, on the interests of government and power. Thats why his films were always succesful in audience.
Now I hope that James Cameron die too, he is worst than Kubrick and is using high-tech and new government experiments such as MK-ULTRA and MK-SEARCH to brainwash you - just watch "Strange Days", "Titanic" and "T3" and see. I also hate him personally because he put my favorite actress Juliette Lewis on drugs and scientology.
Holywood movies are bad - you should not watch it.
The only movie by Kubrick that I've seen is his fantastic version of the Wizard of Oz! I find it highly irregular that no one mentioned it so far. But perhaps everyone is ashamed to love a kiddie pic?
I've heard tell that the dance scene in the cornfield is the largest dance scene in any movie - over 10000 classical ballet dancer twirling to the sound of Erich Huffmans magical sound track. And if you manage to get your hands on the directors cut there is a interesting scene that seems to imply that the lion and the tin man are more than friends!
If you look really, really careful you'll see a young Greta Garbo as a munchkin in the mushroom tournament scene. Finally who can dislike John Wayne as the slightly deranged wizard. Even thinking about the scene where he sings the curtain song sends shivers down my spine to this day - has there ever been a more haunting scene in any musical - I think NOT!
And all this thanks to a - then - young Sri Lankian genius called Stanley Kubrick! He will be missed!
William S B
I will miss him too. BUT I think Alfred Hitchcock was the greatest director of all time.
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I read somewhere (don't have the link now) that Kubrick was going to do a sci-fi movie about AI (I am not talking about 2001). He wanted to do it earlier but the effects weren't capable of capturing he wanted to show. Does anyone know any more about this? If I can find the link I will post it.
-Alex
The article didn't mention his death other than in the headline. What happened to him? This was sudden an unexpected, at least to me.
Well, you got one thing right - he will be missed. However I don't think Ridley Scott would be too pleased you attributed his movie to him.
come on!, we all know the only real reason people went to see 2001 was because they were high :-)
That and Fantasia...
I've got an extra copy on videotape (vhs).
Still in the wrapper and everything...
I AM Stanley Kubrick!
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You may believe that the films cause you to think. However this is just a feeling coming from the fact that your brain is trying to ward of the subliminal messages that it has been force fed during the movie. You do know that there are several countries in Europe that has banned ALL of Stan's movies due to them containing subliminal messages? Subliminial brainwashing is hardly the calling card of free thinkers, ehh?
As far as I know his at least one of his motion pictures has never been released due to both its shocking content and it's many, many subliminal messages. I'm ofcourse talking of "Where Time is No More" from 1976. Hopefully, they will release it now as some sort of a tribute to a great (albeit deranged) movie maker...
Bill S B
If you actually bothered to read the link in the original posting, you would of already known that.
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He's in a great movie called 'Bad Lieutenant'. In one scene, he pulls over these two girls and shoots his wad all over the side of their car.. Pretty cool movie(and not just b/c of the spank). That scene is prolly only in the NC-17 version though..
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That's my question too.
;-).
"Eyes Wide Shut" is the one movie I've been
looking forward to seeing (sorry, all you
"Star Wars" freaks
We'll miss you, Stanley.
let us remember the person who had enough balls to direct a movie on such a sensitive issue as Lolita was about. I daresay Kubrick is my favourite Anglo-saxon director of all time. I will truly miss him, but he will always be remembered in his masterpieces.
I think it's time to do a Kubrick allnighter!
//d
Scott also directed Alien, which was an amazing film when it came out. I wonder if any of us have computers named Mother? FWIW, James Cameron (sp?) didn't do a bad job in directing Aliens.
I have not seen every Kubrick film, but every single one of those I have seen (Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, 2001, Spartacus, and Full Metal Jacket) has been truly excellent. He was a genius, and it will be impossible to replace his style.
I think it's time for a rerun of Dr. Strangelove, just for old time's sake. First Akira Kurosawa; now this. What's up with all the dying?
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What's going to happen to Eyes Wide Shut? But worse still, now he will never be able to make the science fiction film, AI, that he had been planning for so long. What a loss.
Posted by killa hertz:
Tonight I will lay in bed and cry.. I will cry the tears or remorse and lament. When I watch "The Shining", "Clockwork Orange", and the good ole Doctor, it will never be the same. He was a legend that will never die. Thumbs up Stanley, you did good.
Since being exposed to Kubricks films, it has been damn impossible to go back to watching the amazing amount of TRASH that is released today. But i live in hope...
RIP Stan
OK. Just found a better article about this on the AP Wire site (wire.ap.org). According to Warner Bros, Eyes Wide Shut will still be released on July 16.
Well, sh*t. One of the very few directors who would stand up and say "NO, dammit!" to having his films turned into crap. I haven't seen all of his flicks, but the ones I have (Full Metal Jacket, 2001 and Dr. Strangelove) I really enjoyed. Better go rent "Sparticus" & some of his others--I made a vow to myself this year to not watch any crappy T.V. or movies and to only seek out top-notch stuff; he seems like a good place to start. He'll be missed.
I've seen it. It was entertaining, but not really a film that I felt the need to watch more than once, like 2001. It struck me as simply an interesting (and long) tale of the misadventures of some guy. Did I miss a bigger message?
He was simply the finest director to have ever lived. Hitchcock was sloppy by comparison, Kurosawa lost his steam in old age. Kubrick was strong to the end.
You pathetic piece of rat droppings.
May you get cancer and die slowly and painfully.
Go shove your disgusting little conspiracies somewhere else.
Dickhead!
Probably some socially unacceptable disease is my bet. Whatever, he made some incredible films.
2001 was the first "grownup" movie i saw in the mid 70s when taken to arthouse - this was before the advent of videos!
Damn one less great artist's work to look forward to.
Your post is a joke or satire, something like that... Is unbelievable that anyone could think of Stanley Kubrick has a massive brainwasher, a brainwash don't let you think, and Stan's films really put the watcher to think, he was too busy creating really good films to take care about that lousy objective of brainwash people. After all, that's the work of the mainstream media, to suppress the reasoning of people, so I think if you want to find a brainwasher is more easy to find it in Spielberg, Dreamworks, WSJ or in The New York Times than in Stanley Kubrick... And about "Clockwork Orange", the message was quite the contrary.
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Ridley Scott dircted Blade Runner. He's still alive...
I just wanted to mark a note honoring a great man on his passing. He was innovative and brilliant in a way that was unique. I will miss his insights and creativity.
This is a sad day indeed. I think it's time to dig out Full Metal Jacket, another masterful piece by Stanley Kubrick.
Ya know his works were so interesting and so full of life that when you were done seeing them you were really inspired to push whatever you were doing to its limits. (Or at least I was.) They were always a wakeup call.
His work was an example that we don't have to live small.
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He will indeed be missed. What else can be said.
And yes, he has made my world - and many others - who appreciated his works - a better place.
Let's not forget Lolita, which would have to be the second best movie ever. Second of course to ACO. :)
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I was searching around the net for an mp3 of the
sound track to 'Dr. Strangelove' as that story was being posted.
The first movie my father took me to see was 2001.
(he didn't go to movies much and we saw only the best of the best.)
Huh? He was, AFAIK, not involved with that movie at all.
damn, your right. I thought this film was going to be made. I read a while ago that Kubrick was working on it. Anyone else know anything about it's fate?
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next weekend... i'm doing it with about 6 friends...we're going to watch
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
2001
Sparticus
it'll be an all day thing. if we get a bunch of groups everywhere to watch them next weekend, maybe we can channel his spirit! (or not)
-Stu
Kubrick gets my vote as the greatest director of all time. I've been salivating for months at the thought of seeing his new movie "Eyes Wide Shut". A Kubrick film is simply not to be missed. From "The Killing" on through "Full Metal Jacket", every one of his films is solid, and most of them are masterpieces.
When you look at his films it is hard to believe they were all done by the same person. They are all so different in subject matter. "Dr. Strangelove", "2001: A Space Oddesy", "Spartacus", "A Clockwork Orange", "The Shining". This man has a truly amazing collection of films. The common denominator is that they are all spectacularly great.
This is perhaps the greatest loss in the history of film. You will be missed, Mr. Kubrick.
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I love his films.
He'll be missed.
ebw
Lolita incentives pedophilism.
I must commend the policeman who reported his death. "Stanley Kubrick, I'm afraid to say, is dead. His family wished someone to report his death to the press." (Emphasis mine.)
Now, how many times in the last few years have we heard "passed away" (a low-class euphemism, similar to "little girl's room" for Women's Lav) or "passed" (which sounds like he passed a stone, a test, or merely the Bar). A man is dead. We want to say so. Turning the event into a kind of nebulous "time to remember" (something like "...we are here to celebrate a life", right?) doesn't make up for the fact that we aren't going to ever see the remastered 2001.
Damn, I'm gonna miss him.
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I can't even begin to count how many times I've seen FMJ and 2001. You've done good Stan, you'll be missed.
Ironic such should be posted.
Love of him or hate him, Kubrick at least had the integrity to put his name on what he believed him.
But then, it's obviously microencephaloid drool, so why bother to respond?
I have my own answer.
The World is a little worse off today, because a director who dared to make us think for ourselves a little is gone. He was the antithesis of what Hollywood has become, although the filmic-illiterate would have you think otherwise.
Kubrick made films that matter. Even if the anonymous poster above *had* posted a name, it would be fogotten sooner than this morning's coffee.
Kubrick lives on in his films.
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How about listing all the movies *you* have written, produced, or directed? Or at least some indication you have an idea what actually goes into a movie.
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Sorry Stan. You'll be missed.
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Kubrick's favourite film was David Lynch's "Eraserhead".
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