Author: Mark Johnson October 30, 2012
The great Stanley Kubrick – director of such classics as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971) – is about to be honored by AMPAS. Here is the official release: Read more on Academy To Salute Stanley Kubrick… Comments: Leave a Comment |
Author: Mark Johnson August 16, 2012
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) are putting together an exhibition of Stanley Kubrick’s work, celebrating one of the finest directors ever. The event will honor the legendary director’s impact on film today. Here is an official press release on the event: (Los Angeles-August 16, 2012) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Academy) are pleased to co-present the first U.S. retrospective of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, developed in collaboration with the Kubrick Estate and the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt. The exhibition provides access to the director’s extraordinary vision and working methods while illuminating the network of influences and conditions that came together to make his films universally regarded as modern masterpieces. The Los Angeles presentation is made possible by a generous gift from Steve Tisch. Read more on LACMA and The Academy Present the First Stanley Kubrick Retrospective in the U.S…. Comments: 1 Comment |
Author: John H. Foote August 8, 2012
All forms of art changed in the decade, yet oddly film was the last one to do so. The studios held onto the business with a death grip that finally was eased in 1967 with the success of Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and The Graduate (1967) two films which spoke to the American youth metaphorically. This would signal a new movement in American film that spilled over into the seventies, the single most exciting decade in movie history, a time when films mattered, when films more than any other time held a mirror up to society. t was a time teeming with creativity. Read more on Best of the Decades: 1960s… Categories: Article
Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Best of the Decades, Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Hud, Lawrence of Arabia, Midnight Cowboy, Peter O’Toole, planet of the apes, Psycho, The Apartment, The Graduate, The Hustler, To Kill a Mockingbird, West Side Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Comments: 16 Comments |
Author: Mark Johnson July 26, 2012
Stanley Kubrick is right up there with Alfred Hitchcock as the director I most admire and if he was alive today, he would be turning 84 this week. Kubrick was born July 26th, 1928, in Manhattan, New York, of Austrian, Romanian, and Polish heritage. At age 13 his father bought him a camera, which subsequently led to a lifelong obsession with still photography, something that distracted him from his studies in school. Between his poor grades and even less stellar attendance record (he would skip classes to attend double-feature films), Kubrick’s family decided to send him to Los Angeles to live with relatives in hopes that he would focus his efforts on his studies. After high school, Kubrick became an apprentice photographer for Look magazine before becoming full-staff. He frequented film screenings while living in Greenwich Village, and became inspired by the fluid camera styles of Max Ophüls and Elia Kazan. Read more on Circuit 3: Stanley Kubrick… Categories: Circuit 3
Tags: circuit 3, Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, stanley kubrick, The Shining Comments: 17 Comments |
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