Janet Maslin, 50, Quits The Times : Loved Eyes Wide Shut , Hated Gummo
After 22 years at The New York Times and too many bylines to count, film critic Janet Maslin is quitting. "I know this sounds impetuous," she said on Sept. 20, just before going off to screenings for...
View ArticleTravis: Thoroughly Modern Melancholy
Travis' second album, The Man Who (Independiente Ltd.-Epic), is dedicated to the late filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (and "Shirley," whoever that may be). It's a fitting reference. Released in an America...
View ArticleFor Sinners and Cinephiles, Kieslowski’s Ten 60-Minute Films
Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue , from 10 one-hour screenplays by Krzysztof Piesiewicz and Kieslowski, achieved legendary status among American cinephiles in the years following the first showing of...
View ArticleA.I. = ( 2001 + E.T. )2
Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick have collaborated in spirit on a fabulous fable called A.I. that is well on its way to becoming the most controversial conversation-piece to hit the dumbed-down...
View ArticleGreat, Eccentric Film Writer Expands Magnum Opus-Again
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film , by David Thomson. Alfred A. Knopf, 963 pages, $35. It looks unassuming enough, just like any other reference book: weighty, blockish and solid as a brick. The...
View ArticleDVD’s, Videos, TiVo, Downloadables
'This Is the War Room!' The 40th-anniversary special-edition DVD of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove makes fascinating viewing in this tense post-9/11 period, not long after the political and economic...
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The Big Tease
“Hair is an accessory,” declared Kerry Warn, the designer responsible for the larger-than-life looks on these pages, and the man in charge of Nicole Kidman’s mane on all her films for the past decade,...
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Single Person’s Movie: Eyes Wide Shut
It's 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like...
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New York Theater to Show Alternate Ending to The Shining
"And they lived happily ever after." Stanley Kubrick was a perfectionist. The Shining is actually in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most number of takes of a single scene. With that type of...
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