The World in 2050: Science Meets Sci-Fi According to Experts
Hollywood Today.net
One scientist noted he has been inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” And likewise, Kubrick and other great filmmakers like Spielberg and Lucas have started their sci-fi story-telling with as much real science as possible, ...
Life in Hollywood: Getting Started
Salon
Which was actually quite fitting – here it was, almost 2001 and at least some of Kubrick’s visions had actually come true. What Kubrick couldn’t have foreseen was how quaint last year’s miracle could look to the average technologically jade...
Review: 2012
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The film opens with the planets and sun in perfect alignment, much like the opening of Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey . Whereas the alignment in that film led to a birth (of technology et al), in 2012 it means death, destruction, a...
40 years later, Oklahoma ‘hero’ recognized for medal
Daily Oklahoman
Smith and his wife were watching Stanley Kubrick ’s "Full Metal Jacket” in a theater when Smith was so affected that he stood up and yelled at the screen, drawing stares from those around him. He needed a two-hour walk before he felt right ...
Apocalypse plays out on screen again and again
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Strangelove" -- Nuclear annihilation was never so funny as it is in Stanley Kubrick's lampoon of Cold War cowboyism. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" -- Proof that the world survives? The nuclear decimation in this Arnold flick is overwhelming.
The best films never made
The Independent
For Stanley Kubrick – who has two "never-mades" on the programme, Napoleon from 1969 and Aryan Papers from the early 90s – there were rumours of casting issues, too much obsessing over the fine details, and with Aryan Papers, about the Holo...
The Top Ten Films of the 1960s
Filmcritic.com
At home, it was the arrival of hot-tempered brainchild Stanley Kubrick that excited a generation of critics and filmmakers as the avant garde found its unlikely Che Guevera in bearded beatnik Stan Brakhage. Guevera was killed in 1967, right...
Disaster Movies 101: Hollywood has 4 ways to end the world
Philadelphia Daily News
Strangelove" (1964) Stanley Kubrick blew up the world without ever showing the aftermath - or does "Eyes Wide Shut" count? Chris Marker's "La Jetee" (1962) is surely the most beautiful and poetic end-of-the-world movie, not least of all bec...
Outgoing VP talks to Voice
Georgetown Voice
John Malkovich is Alan Conway, an impersonator of Stanley Kubrick, who is as powerful and creepy as they come: flamboyant, with faint lipstick, colorful neck scarves, and an array of accents tailored to his con victims. In Color Me Kubrick,...
Self-proclaimed ‘lazy’ author Stephen King releases his 51st novel
Popmatters.com
The much-praised movie version of “The Shining” was seen more as director Stanley Kubrick’s work than King’s, and the pop-cult mulch that King heaped around his stories made it easy to dismiss them as things you’d take to occupy the hours ....
Esprit Orchestra meets Koerner Hall – glorious
Globe and Mail
Especially in the Ligeti (made famous by Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey ), the orchestra responded with playing that was rich, nuanced and (I dare say) historically authentic. The stark abstractions of modernism are no longer ...
Showcase screenings set for Turner fest
Variety
TCM has also set a screening of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" that will include a Q&A with visual effects maven Douglas Trumbull, and a 50th anniversary salute to Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless." The fest's 50-plus screenings wil...