Tag: Stanley Kubrick
Hot Docs 2013, Days Two to Five: Fascist Regimes, Hellish Conditions, and Shanghai Jazz + Saul Bass at 93
Uploaded are a quartet of documentary film reviews from Hot Docs, including the world’s oldest jazz band in As Time Goes By in Shanghai, the hellish world of asbestos mining in remote China in Cloudy Mountains, film school students in The Great North Korean Picture Show, and Russia’s tsarist President in the feature doc Winter, Go Away! shot during the 2012 elections + the short film Vladimir Putin in Deep Concentration. Also embedded within the Editor’s Blog: extyra blather on Saul Bass’ 93rd birthday, Kubrick at the Bloor, and upcoming goodies at KQEK.com and Big Head Amusements.
Stanley Kubrick: Part II
In Part 2 of this Stanley Kubrick series, the focus is on Barry Lyndon (newly released by Warner Home Video on Blu-ray) and Jon Ronson’s Channel 4 documentary Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes (2008). I’ve got reviews of both, some helpful links, and an Editor’s Blog that someone at the TIFF Bell Lightbox shoud read…
Stanley Kubrick, Part I
Tied to a review of Warner Home Video’s shiny new Blu-ray of Lolita, I’ve added reviews of Stanley Kubrick’s first 3 films – all documentaries of sorts: Day of the Fight and Flying Padre (both released in 1951 by RKO), and The Seafarers, his first colour film, released in a special edition DVD by Indian Relay Films…
Soundtrack producer interviews & other news
Just uploaded are interviews with soundtrack producers Bruce Kimmell (Kritzerland Records) and George Fox (2M1 Records), a link to my Rue Morgue blog on The Revue Cinema’s recent screening of The Shining, and sundry heads-up of important screenings this coming week, including The Grey Fox, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and Die Hard…
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