Kubrick’s work on Eyes Wide Shut wasn’t unlike the rest of his oeuvre. As usual, the filming schedule was prolonged and full of monotonous takes that made the actors question their entire reason for being. The distinction, however, was in the specific way...
I answered and a gruff voice said, "This is Stanley Kubrick. Would you like to write a film script for me?" Assuming this was a joking friend, I replied, "And this is Marilyn Monroe and I've been dead 30 years." He laughed. It really was Stanley Kubrick.Maitland, Sara...
When I was two years old, something happened which I have never forgotten. It was early spring, and there was a light mist over the trees and fields. The other young fellows and I were feeding at the lower end of the field when we heard the distant cry o
The internet was born and people in cities around the world learned just how widespread these messages were, and that no one knew who made them or where they came from. Where the media ignored the TTT, the tiles began receiving widespread press attention. 2000 – 2009 The early 2000’s br...
— Stanley Kubrick 54 Man cannot stand a meaningless life. — Carl Jung 70 Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. — Bertrand Russell 14 Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no ...
In 1996, Auto-Tune was born. "There were other attempts to do what I did," Hildebrand says in This Is Pop, "but those efforts were doomed because the practitioners didn't understand the issues." While the specifics of those complexities are too abstract to dive into, it comes down to...
We would then scatter their ashes in the sea off Folkestone, the town where they were both born, educated, met and spent the first eight years of their married life. It was home to us too of course and it is where my mum had asked for her ashes to be returned to. Dad had been ...
t understand how worried I was that day b/c I kept thinking all of a sudden, “What if Vin is PISSED I threw him a party???”) One of his friends takes the cake box from me and instinctively I’m like, “AhhhHHHH be careful!!!” like someone has just grabbed my newborn ...
1964 –Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Stanley Kubrick’s satirical send-up of Cold War nuclear brinksmanship. 1966 –The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. The crew of a Soviet submarine blunders ashore near Cape Cod...
and it was cool, but the format shouldn’t be an object of worship. If you knew how many copies ofPiece of MindandPhysicalby Olivia Newton-John I had to buy because the tape got destroyed, then you know what I’m talking about. Then again, my copy of the Bad Brains cassette lasted...