From the Press Release
In 1980 Stanley Kubrick, who had earlier created landmarks in the genres of black comedy (Dr. Strangelove) and science fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey), released his masterpiece of modern horror, The Shining. Over 30 years later we're still struggling to unearth its hidden meanings. Rodney Ascher's wry and provocative documentary ROOM 237 fuses fact, fiction and speculation through interviews with both fervent fans of the film and scholars, creating a kaleidoscopic deconstruction of Kubrick's controversial classic. It comes to Blu-ray and double-disc DVD from IFC Midnight on September 24, 2013. The bonus-filled discs have SRPs, respectively, of $29.98 and $27.98.
Special Features
"The mstrmnd Speaks: Commentary with Kevin McLeod" (McLeod is a key figure in the online examination of Kubrick's film.) "Secrets of The Shining," an hour-long panel discussion from the first Stanley Film Festival, an event at Colorado's historic Stanley Hotel, which inspired one-time guest Stephen King to write his novel 11 Deleted Scenes "The Making of the Music" featurette Mondo Poster Design Discussion with Artist Aled Lewis Trailers
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It was rumored that Steven King hated Stanly's version and vision of The Shining. That's why he had it remade in tbe 80's. Fact or fiction?
ReplyDeleteKing said that he thought Kubricks version did not represent his book.
DeleteHe had 3 issues with Kubrick's work:
1. Instead of representing a haunted hotel, Kubrick implied that Jack was crazy from the start.
2. Kubrick did not believe in ghosts -- making it hard for him to really do a good ghost story.
3. The movie made such major changes to the flow of King's novel that it no longer rightly represented what King had written.
He did hate Kubrick's version and publicly said so. He remade it in 1997 with his screenplay. It was pretty terrible but more faithful to the book. Part of the agreement with releasing the rights back to King to make the mini-series was that King could no longer publicly slag the Kubrick version. It didn't really matter though because Kubrick died in 1999.
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I'm only letting your comment sit there so I can respond. I'm not going to use any blog I control to steal from artist. Post somewhere else.
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DeleteI own every movie based on King's work, including all of the ripoff "sequels." So clearly, I have some obsessive tendencies that tell me I'm going to have to buy this movie.
ReplyDeleteBut boy, I really don't want to. I have no interest in watching the movie, which sounds like a bunch of weirdo lunatics sitting in a room and sweating a lot.
It's a quandary.
I agree, Bryant. I have mixed feelings on this one! But, we could -- possibly -- learn the truth behind the moon landing. You never know, right?
ReplyDeleteFor me, what's truly odd is the phenomena of looking for patterns and messages in the rest of Kubrick's films.
ReplyDeleteI'll admit, I don't know how it all got started, but it seemed (from my very limited point of view) to emerge from a kind of blind devotion to the director.
I'd say it isn't Kubrick himself, but rather whatever natural talents his has as a filmmaker that make people clamber for him.
The problem is such slavish, almost thoughtless, co-dependency strikes me as fundamentally unhealthy. I don't think writer of filmmakers are a different breed of being, after all.
ChrisC
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