Polaroid diary from Stanley Kubrick film ‘The Shining’

Today, March 7th 2019, marks 20 years since the death of the great American film director, screenwriter, and producer Stanley Kubrick.

On of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history with his dark, realist and often sophisticated adaptations led Kubrick to major Hollywood success through his film company Hawk Films. Iconic pictures such as Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey and, of course, The Shining.

The Shining, the 1980 film produced and directed by Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, is arguably accepted as one of the greatest horror films of all time…, faroutmagazine.co.uk

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The Making of ‘The Shining’, a Lesson in Creating as We Go – Posted by Nathalie

I love old making-of because they are so much less controlled than today’s. If you want to realize how media savvy you’ve become just by watching marketed content, watch The Shining‘s making-of. Filmed by Vivian Kubrick, the filmmaker’s daughter, the video captured pretty much all the moments that wouldn’t make the cut in a making-of in 2017: random people coming on set to visit because wealth, politics, power, all of the above?… Kubrick systematically talking shit to his lead actress, Shelley Duvall, Nicholson making fun of the constant change in scripts, so much so he’s just stopped learning his lines… –

http://www.mentorless.com/2017/09/26/the-making-of-the-shining-a-lesson-in-creating-as-we-go/

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