| Kubrick's Boxes |
[Jul. 16th, 2008|07:35 pm] |
There was a TV highlight of the year last night.
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes - Tues 15 July 2008 10pm
A biography of a remarkably talented man as seen though the rich collection of material he left behind.
The man's attention to detail is stunning and quite inspiring.
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"Stanley Kubrick's films were landmark events – majestic, memorable and richly researched. But, as the years went by, the time between films grew longer and longer, and less and less was seen of the director. What on earth was he doing?
Two years after Kubrick's death, Jon Ronson was invited to the director's estate to explore the hundreds of boxes the legendary film director had collected during his decades at Childwick Manor in Hertfordshire. He's been returning ever since, and the story of Kubrick and the archive, now housed at University of the Arts London, is revealed in this fascinating documentary.
Ronson asks: is it possible to get to understand such a man – and his extraordinary working methods – by looking through the hundreds of boxes he left behind? "
The Hunt For The Clockwork Orange Hat.
Highlights for me were:
- his wife being asked if the house full of boxes ever overwhelmed Kubrick. She replied, "Nothing overwhelmed Stanley."
- Kubrick's own designs for the boxes themselves.
- his joke(?)about starting a stationery memorabilia museum.
- getting his fans in places like Alberquerque whose mail he catalogued away, to be his "agents in the field" and report back viewings of his films in various cinemas with full details of location dimensions and effects on audiences.
- the interview with an author of one of the letters filed away as "crank".
- the hunt for the perfect droog's hat for Clockwork Orange.
Oh it's endless and also just leaves you wanting SO much more.
Let it never be forgotten - Stanley Kubrick was a genius.
read Jon Ronson's Guardian article explaining the story in detail.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1177734,00.html
Pictures by Stephen Gill from the accompanying magazine article are here at kubrickonia.
http://kubrickonia.blogspot.com/2008/03/citizen-kubrick.html |
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"The closest I ever got to Rosebud," says Tony, "was finding a daisy gun that he had when he was a child."
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