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    I was actually surprised to see we have no dedicated thread here for what is certainly one of the best directors of all time. I was actually looking for one in light of the recent Napoleon news, and was shocked to find nothing.

    Kubrick for me is probably in the Top 3 or 5 of my all-time favorite directors, very likely jockeying for #1 with Hitchcock. Barry Lyndon is one of the greatest motion pictures in the history of cinema and it's so exciting to finally see something in a similar vein coming soon, something that Kubrick worked so hard on for a very long period, even though he never really did the same thing twice.

    https://thefilmstage.com/news/cary-f...ject-napoleon/
    There are a number of projects in various stages of development that Stanley Kubrick left behind when he passed away prior to the release of Eyes Wide Shut. While some will never see the light of day under different hands, a few have re-emerged. Steven Spielberg, who brought A.I. to life from the director’s script, previously announced he’ll be executive-producing Napoleon, one of Kubrick’s long-gestating projects, which he heavily researched in the 1960’s. While it was rumored that Baz Lurhmann might get in the director’s chair for it, a perhaps more-fitting helmer is now in talks to direct the ambitious project.

    Following reports out of a Kubrick symposium at De Montfort University Leicester, HBO has now confirmed to THR that Cary Fukunaga is indeed in talks to direct the six-hour miniseries. Chronicling the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s mission to conquer Europe in the 19th century, one can read Kubrick’s original script for it here. Clocking in at 155 pages, it includes epic battle sequences and intense family drama. There’s also an interesting section at the conclusion featuring Kubrick’s precise production plans. Foreseeing the film would clock in at 180 minutes, he broke up the 150-day shoot from July to September of 1969, which would include up to 15,000 extras as troops (although Romania offered 30,000), 500 books for research, shooting in 70mm, and more.

    The database he collected of over 17,000 images is now available to the team thanks to Kubrick’s long-time producer Jan Harlan, and it’ll be put to good use. With the project, co-produced by HBO and MGM, “inspired” by that original script, it will also be “informed by the Kubrick estate and his extensive, personally curated archive.” “I am sure HBO will take full advantage of the material we have. We have provided [them] with stacks of material,” Harlan said. “I am delighted that Stanley’s huge efforts may finally lead to a film. Six hours would have been his dream, but this wasn’t possible at the time.”

    This is quite an undertaking for Fukunaga, who only has three films under his belt, but experience in the world of HBO and the mini-series medium with the first outing of True Detective. With Kubrick only planning for a three-hour film, it’ll be quite intriguing to see how Fukunaga and crew expand this story, and hopefully HBO gives him all the resources he needs to do so.
    And since it is my damn OCD nature, here is my rough ranked list of Kubrick's feature films:
    1. Barry Lyndon (1975)
    2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    3. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
    4. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
    5. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
    6. The Shining (1980)
    7. Paths of Glory (1957)
    8. Lolita (1962)
    9. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
    10. The Killing (1956)
    11. Spartacus (1960)
    12. Killer's Kiss (1955)
    13. Fear and Desire (1953)

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    It's probably Hitchcock and Kubrick for me as well. I do wish Kubrick had managed to make more films in his life. I think his OCD of doing so many takes got in the way sometimes. My other complaint about his work is the lack of strong female characters. Women are often caricatures or sex objects or absent altogether. All that being said, he's the man!

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    You're quick pablo

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    1. 2001/The Shining
    2. Paths of Glory
    3. Dr. Strangelove
    4. The Killing
    5. Barry Lyndon
    6. Eyes Wide Shut
    7. A Clockwork Orange
    8. Lolita
    9. Killer's Kiss
    10. Fear and Desire
    11. Full Metal Jacket

    I've never watched Spartacus because from all I've read and seen, it was a project that Douglas had more control over than Kubrick. I'll watch it one day though.
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    It's definitely not pure Kubrick, but it's still a very good film with some beautiful cinematography. I haven't checked out the recent 4K restoration, that should look tremendous.

    Surprised to see FMJ last on your list, Tommy. It's one of my favorite war films. The latter part of it is so haunting it's burned into my brain.

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    I know right? FMJ started out pretty good but by the time the narrative changes, I totally lost interest in it. I can't really point to any specific reason. I know that FMJ is very beloved among Kubrick's work but it's just not one that I liked very much. As a matter of fact, it's the only one I have seen once. I guess I should give it another go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tommy View Post
    I guess I should give it another go.
    You're in luck, it was just added to Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/title/528677

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    Kubrick is my favorite Director. I love his films including The Shining
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    I saw A Clockwork Orange when I was perhaps 13...I would not recommend that people that young see that movie.
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    Quote Originally Posted by St. Troy View Post
    I saw A Clockwork Orange when I was perhaps 13...I would not recommend that people that young see that movie.
    GEE...Do you think that maybe that was the reason it was....
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    when it was released in 1971?

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    Quote Originally Posted by needfulthings View Post
    GEE...Do you think that maybe that was the reason it was....
    Spoiler:
    when it was released in 1971?
    Was it X? I saw it on cable (HBO, Cinemax, something like that) in the early 80s; I wonder if they listed it as X. If so, I must not have noticed; if I had noticed, it definitely would've stuck in my mind that I was watching an X-rated movie (my horizons were beginning to broaden at that time... ).
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    YES... and so was MIDNIGHT COWBOY & it WON "BEST PICTURE" in 1970. That is why films are now rated NC17 (because some Newspapers would not run ads for X RATED movies... they assumed that all x-rated films where hardcore porn.)

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    Midnight Cowboy; another troubling movie, but for different reasons.
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    My top 3 Kubrick in no particular order

    2001
    A Clockwork Orange
    The Shining

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    Quote Originally Posted by fernandito View Post
    My top 3 Kubrick in no particular order

    2001
    A Clockwork Orange
    The Shining
    Agreed 100%.

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    You guys need to rewatch Barry Lyndon.

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    I was on a Kubrick kick last year. I think I watched most of his films. Barry Lyndon is a marvel to look at, you can take almost any scene and make a photograph out of it. That said, I found the themes, characters and settings of my top 3 to have more in common with what I'm into.

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    Stanley Kubrick is my favorite director, with Alfred Hitchcock a close second.

    Top 3 Kubrick:

    1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    2. A Clockwork Orange
    3. Barry Lyndon

    Least favorite: The Shining

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    Kubrick Remembered - New Stanley Kubrick Documentary

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    As is evidenced here: http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...ms-of-All-Time my all-time most favorite film is Barry Lyndon and it is with the utmost excitement that I post this news:

    http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=21708
    The Criterion Collection has announced that it will add five new titles to its Blu-ray catalog in September: David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, Agnieszka Smoczyńska's The Lure, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr, and Olivier Assayas' Personal Shopper.

    Barry Lyndon

    Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of brutal aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O'Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish costume and production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The result is a masterpiece—a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart.

    Special Features and Technical Specs:

    NEW 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
    Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
    New documentary featuring cast and crew interviews as well as excerpts from a 1976 audio interview with director Stanley Kubrick
    New program about the film's groundbreaking visuals, featuring focus puller Douglas Milsome and gaffer Lou Bogue, as well as excerpts from a 1980 interview with cinematographer John Alcott
    New program about Academy Award–winning production designer Ken Adam with historian Sir Christopher Frayling
    New interview with editor Anthony Lawson
    French television interview from 1976 with Oscar-winning costume designer Ulla-Britt Söderlund
    New interview with critic Michel Ciment
    New interview with actor Leon Vitali about the 5.1 surround soundtrack, which he cosupervised
    New piece analyzing the fine-art-inspired aesthetics of the film with art curator Adam Eaker
    PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and two pieces about the film from the March 1976 issue of American Cinematographer

    STREET DATE: OCTOBER 17.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mae View Post
    You guys need to rewatch Barry Lyndon.
    I actually just picked up Barry Lyndon on laserdisc.

    Napoleon is long overdue for a TV/movie.
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