Tag: stanleykubrick
EYES WIDE SHUT 4K Review: Kubrick's Last Masterpiece
Just in time for the holidays, the ultimate Christmas movie (eat it, 'Die Hard'!) drops into the Criterion Collection
Criterion in November 2025: EYES WIDE SHUT, EL, BURDEN OF DREAMS
Plus: John Hughes' 'The Breakfast Club,' Reginald Hudlin's 'House Party,' Howard Hughes' 'Hell's Angels,' and Abbas Kiarostami getes Eclipsed.
FRAILTY 4K UHD Review: Horror Comes Home, Again, Looking Better Than Ever
Bill Paxton's directorial debut is new to 4K UHD, plus a Criterion Collection roundup.
BARRY LYNDON 4K Review: Every Frame a Painting
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Barry Lyndon is out this week in a deluxe 4K/Blu-ray combo pack from the Criterion Collection this week. What can one say about a film that’s been written...
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE and More Sizzlers Coming to Criterion in July 2025
In 4K: Traffaut's 'The Adventures of Antoine Doinel,' Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon,' Lang's 'The Big Heat,' and Lonergan's 'You Can Count on Me.'
Friday One Sheet: EYES WIDE SHUT @ 25
As is tradition for this column, the penultimate entry before the year's end is an alternate poster for Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. I like this one for its simplicity of execution. Take a postcard for the famous...
Friday One Sheet: Eyes Wide Shut @ 24
Three times make a tradition, right? It is (now) a holiday tradition of sharing a poster variant for Stanley Kubrick's final film, an alternate Christmas movie classic. Modern movie lovers may go to The Apartment, Die Hard, Gremlins, or Chungking Express (perhaps even...
VIVARIUM Interview: Director Lorcan Finnegan On His Thought-Provoking Sci-Fi Horror Allegory Of Suburban Life Monotony
In Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium, which world premiered at last year’s Critics’ Week (parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival), a young couple is looking forward to take the next step in their relationship: get their own home. Guided by an...
Friday One Sheet: EYES WIDE SHUT @ 20
My favourite Christmas movie turned 20 this year. Stanley Kubrick's final film has taken almost as long to get its due in the popular culture, but I feel it has achieved consensus (more or less) for the final Kubrickian masterwork...
Friday One Sheet: The Legacy of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Stanley Kubrick's timeless masterpiece of science fiction and supreme audio-visual storytelling, 2001: A Space Odyssey, turns 50 this month. Thus, I would like to take today's column as a gallery, to outlay about a dozen posters, from official studio released...
Criterion in October 2017: TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, THE LURE, PERSONAL SHOPPER and More
Scare season arrives in October and this year fans of the Criterion Collection have ample reason to celebrate in style. A prequel that is anything but pro forma, David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is essential as a...
Hot Docs 2017 Interview: Listen to Music On Screen - Tony Palmer on The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Frank Zappa, Stanley Kubrick and More
Tony Palmer told this story far better than I ever could when he was introducing his TV works, All My Loving and All You Need is Love (Episode 14), at the 2017 Hot Docs Film Festival, but I’m going to...
NYC Weekend Picks, Jan 27-29: Bruce Lee, Kubrick and Scorsese Classics, 70s Universal, and BEHEMOTH
Happy Year of the Rooster! And if, among the fireworks, parades, and consumption of chicken, duck, dumplings and longevity noodles, you can squeeze in some time for moviegoing, there's plenty to choose from. Just in time for the Chinese New...
After Stanley; Enter The Overlook Film Festival
As you've seen on this site, we've been big supporters of The Stanley Film Fest over the three years that fest ran from 2013-2015. Well now it is time to be big supporters of a brand-new festival called The Overlook...
Review: OPERATION AVALANCHE, Reel Emotion and the Faking of the Moon Landing
Matt Johnson's sophmore feature is a bold and inventive love letter to cinema via faux-documentary, tomfoolery and the faking of the moon landing.
KES, TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING and More Join Masters of Cinema
In the past few days our good friends at Eureka! Entertainment have announced a bevy of new titles, which they will be releasing in the coming months. Chief among these are new additions to their Masters of Cinema series, including...
Watch a Gorgeous New Trailer for Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY
Eureka! Entertainment unveiled this gorgeous new trailer for Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory earlier this week, which will be joining the Masters of Cinema collection on 19 September in a new Blu-ray edition. Kubrick's early anti-war classic stars Kirk Douglas as...
Criterion in June: FANTASTIC PLANET, DR. STRANGELOVE, And More
Stanley Kubrick's dark comedy Dr. Strangelove and René Laloux's animated dazzler Fantastic Planet lead Criterion's pack of releases for June 2016. The former features Peter Sellers in multiple roles and is a stellar offering from the early 1960s. Released some...
Sundance 2016 Review: OPERATION AVALANCHE, For The Love Of Cinema
There is a lure to the film camera that is almost primal. It draws you in, ever closer, a potent combo of machine and magic. Pressed against your ear, your cheek, the click-whir miracle of celluloid is god calling you...
Book Review: Piers Bizony's THE MAKING OF STANLEY KUBRICK'S 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
(My God, it's full of fold-outs...!) Last year, the German publishing house Taschen released an astonishing holy grail for fans of Stanley Kubrick's seminal science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey: a boxset which included four book volumes, enclosed in...
