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An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (1969)
- pmoriarty 9y agoIf you enjoyed this you should watch Stanley Kubrick's Boxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick%27s_Boxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick%27s_Boxes
- cooper12 9y agoIf anyone else was wondering, the film they're talking about in the beginning of the interview, Napoleon, was never made: > Napoleon was eventually canceled due to the prohibitive cost of location filming, the Western release of Sergei Bondarchuk's epic film version of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1968), and the commercial failure of Bondarchuk's Napoleon-themed film Waterloo (1970). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick%27s_unrealized_projects#Napoleon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick%27s_unrealized...)
- loevborg 9y agoBy the way, if you get a chance to see Bondarchuk's 6 hour version of War and Peace, don't miss it. It's epic, beautiful and highly experimental. It's worth seeing just for the aerial shots during the war scenes.
- crdb 9y agoAlso Waterloo for that matter. No CGI in 1970. From Wikipedia [1]: "To recreate the battlefield authentically, the Soviets bulldozed away two hills, laid five miles of roads, transplanted 5,000 trees, sowed fields of rye, barley and wildflowers and reconstructed four historic buildings. To create the mud, more than six miles of underground irrigation piping was specially laid. [...] The battle sequences of the film include about 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalrymen as extras and 50 circus stunt riders were used to perform the dangerous horse falls. It has been joked that Sergei Bondarchuk was in command of the seventh-largest army in the world. [...] A selected 2,000 additional men were also taught to load and fire muskets." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_(1970_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_(1970_film)
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- caf 9y agoIt's disappointing to find out that The Killing didn't turn a profit. It's a great film.
- valuearb 9y ago“If you were nineteen and starting out again, would you go to film school? The best education in film is to make one. I would advise any neophyte director to try to make a film by himself” I give same advice to aspiring developers.
- sosa2k 9y ago2001: A Space Odyssey is the greatest movie ever IMO.
- ebcode 9y agoRoom 237 has some compelling evidence pointing to what might have become of Stanley. Anyway, connecting with great souls through their works is one treasure this baleful world of ours can still offer. Thanks for posting this.