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Blu-ray/DVD Release Date for The Shining Documentary “Room 237″
5 June 2013 3:59 PM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
IFC Films has been making a number of Blu-ray and DVD release announcements recently and revealed that Room 237 will be available in September. The Shining documentary is already available on VOD services, but will make its way to Blu-ray/DVD on September 24th, according to Blu-ray.com. No bonus features have been announced at this time, but it’s looking like a bare bones release.
“After the box office failure of Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick decided to embark on a project that might have more commercial appeal. The Shining, Stephen King’s biggest critical and commercial success yet, seemed like a perfect vehicle. After an arduous production, Kubrick’s film received a wide release in the summer of 1980; the reviews were mixed, but the box office, after a slow start, eventually picked up. End of story? Hardly. In the 30 years since the film’s release, a considerable cult of Shining devotees has emerged, »
- Jonathan James
Blu-ray Releases: The Driver and Hard Times
7 May 2013 3:08 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray Release Date: June 11, 2013 (Hard Times); July 23, 2013 (The Driver)
Price: Blu-ray $29.95 each
Studio: Twilight Time
Ryan O'Neal is the man behind the wheel in Walter Hill's The Driver.
Hard Times (1975) and The Driver (1978) are two of our favorite hard-hitting Seventies films by Walter Hill (The Long Riders).
The action-drama Hard Times, Hill’s first directorial effort, stars Charles Bronson (The Great Escape) as a drifter who travels to Louisiana during The Depression and and begins competing in illegal bare-knuckled boxing matches. After his first bout, he hooks up with one of the fight’s fast-talking organizers (James Coburn, Duck You Sucker) to set him up with more matches, with mixed and often painful results…
Hill’s second film, the action-filled crime drama The Driver, stars Ryan O’Neal (Barry Lyndon) as a professional guy-behind-the-wheel who steals cars to drive as getaway vehicles for big-time robberies in Los Angeles. Hot »
- Laurence
'The Sopranos' Creator David Chase's Must See Movies Include 'Barry Lyndon,' 'Bicycle Thieves,' 'Something Wild' & More
3 May 2013 6:38 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
There’s a fun little series on NPR, titled “Watch This,” which occasionally takes a look at the favorite films from filmmakers such as William Friedkin, Paul Feig, and Kevin Smith. The latest edition features “The Sopranos” creator David Chase and it’s filled with a lot of interesting choices. It’s always fascinating to learn more about what influences certain filmmakers and Chase’s list definitely reflects that. His list includes Stanley Kubrick's “Barry Lyndon,” Vittorio De Sica's “Bicycle Thieves,” Laurel and Hardy’s “Saps at Sea,” Powell and Pressburger’s “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” and “A Canterbury Tale” (check out our recent retrospective on the filmmakers), Lindsay Anderson’s “O Lucky Man!,” Luis Bunuel’s “Tristana” and “Viridana,” and Johnathan Demme’s “Something Wild” (the most contemporary picture of the bunch). David Chase cites “Barry Lyndon” as his favorite Kubrick movie, saying “What’s great about it, »
- Ken Guidry
5 Surprising Personal Passion Projects of Legendary Directors
20 April 2013 11:08 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
There’s something inherently lonely and tortured about being a director. Yes, you’re the tyrant of the set and dictator of the vision, but you’re also the man (or woman) behind the curtain, the puppet master who never appears on stage….unless you’re Clint Eastwood or Quentin Tarantino. Or Alfred Hitchcock….or Roman Polanski…Anyway, the point is that you may be the genius behind a film, and celebrated as such, but you’re no superstar. There’s a reason why they are often referred to as voyeurs.
But the upside is that, once you’re an established money-maker, you can afford to be creative in your guises. That is, to put your dream on screen. Most directors have at some stage championed their baby, a cherished passion project which is their love letter to their craft. However, it’s quite galling how this endeavor often falls on deaf ears. »
- Scott Patterson
How Many of the Movies from Roger Ebert's List of Great Movies Have You Seen?
10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 363 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies, the Up docs and Decalogue) and of those 363, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »
- Brad Brevet
How Many of the Movies from Roger Ebert's List of Great Movies Have You Seen?
10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 362 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies and Decalogue) and of those 362, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »
- Brad Brevet
Room 237 (2012)
2 April 2013 6:18 PM, PDT | Planet Fury | See recent Planet Fury news »
Director: Rodney Ascher
Featuring: Bill Blakemore, Juli Kearns, Jay Weidner, Geoffrey Cocks, John Fell Ryan
No other movie divides opinion quite like The Shining. Hailed alternately as a work of genius and a confused mess, people either love it or hate it. Haters include the author of the source material, Stephen King, who called it "a film by a man who thinks too much and feels too little." It left critics scratching their heads — Roger Ebert confessed himself disturbed by the "elusive open-endedness," while Pauline Kael declared "Kubrick mystifies us deliberately." Yet for every moviegoer who rejects The Shining as cold and impenetrable, there's one who embraces it as a masterpiece. There are even some people who believe its ambiguity holds the key to the great mysteries of modern civilization.
Room 237 takes us on a fascinating dive through the minds of this last group, the individuals who have scanned »
- Karina Wilson
New Room 237 Artwork Explores the Brain of Stanley Kubrick
1 April 2013 1:36 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Another cool (and extremely yellow) poster has arrived for Rodney Ascher's controversial documentary on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining entitled Room 237, and we have it for ya hot, fresh, and full of twists and turns!
From the Press Release
IFC Midnight is proud to present Rodney Ascher's highly acclaimed Room 237, which was released on March 29, 2013, in New York City, followed by a national rollout. The film is simultaneously available on Cable VOD, iTunes, and other digital outlets (Sundance Now, Amazon Streaming, Xbox, and more).
Since its premiere at Sundance, Room 237 had been a festival sensation at Cannes, Toronto, New York, Chicago, AFI, and Fantastic Fest. The film also won the Ida Documentary Award for Best Editing.
Synopsis
After the box office failure of Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick decided to embark on a project that might have more commercial appeal. The Shining, Stephen King’s biggest critical and commercial success yet, »
- Uncle Creepy
Best of the Week: Malick Goes VOD, Dystopia Rules, Reviews, Interviews and More
29 March 2013 4:32 PM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
The best stories of the week from Toh! Features: Immersed in Movies: Stepping Up the VFX on "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" "My Life with Cleopatra" Memoir Reissued for Notorious Elizabeth Taylor Film's 50th Anniversary Dystopia Rules! Rudin and Paramount's Unpublished "Annihilation" Joins Rash of Movies About Our Grim Future Obituaries: Fay Kanin, An Appreciation Interviews: "Gimme the Loot" Director Adam Leon Talks His Indie Bronx Adventure, Meryl Streep and "Barry Lyndon" Jane Campion Talks Moodily Misogynistic "Top of the Lake" Reviews: "Game of Thrones" Season Three Episode One Review and Recap Ranking the Top Ten Studio Ghibli Films, Not All by Miyazaki "From Up on Poppy Hill" Review: 60s Coming of Age Romance from Two Miyazakis "Room 237" Review: Why I Hated, and then Admired Rodney Ascher's "Shining" Doc Television: "Top of the Lake" Recap 2: Bringing Out the Dead and Missing News: Magnolia Sets Malick's "To the Wonder" For »
- TOH!
Indie Horror Month Exclusive: Dread Central Talks Room 237 with Director Rodney Ascher and Producer Tim Kirk
29 March 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Even though it has been over three decades since Stanley Kubrick released The Shining, that doesn't mean that the passing of time has slowed down his fans who still dissect and theorize about the film.
A truly avant-garde deconstruction of one of the greatest horror movies of all time, Rodney Ascher's Room 237 sits down with five Shining scholars who all have wildly different theories involving World War II, Native Americans, genocide, the faked moon landing, and numerology and explores them through interviews, re-enactments and more.
Dread Central recently chatted with Ascher and Room 237 producer Tim Kirk about their own fascination with Kubrick's iconic adaptation of the Stephen King novel as well as their thoughts on why the film continues to capture our imaginations all this time later. We also spoke to them about their approach to the documentary and much more on The Shining as well.
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- thehorrorchick
Room 237 Pure Gibberish?
28 March 2013 12:26 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
So, ever wonder what someone who worked on The Shining, say Stanley Kubrick's personal assistant Leon Vitali for instance, thinks of Rodney Ascher’s conspiracy theory-laden Shining documentary Room 237? Well then, read on!
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Vitali says, “I was falling about laughing most of the time. There are ideas espoused in the movie that I know to be total balderdash.”
Vitali goes on to explain that he never spoke with Kubrick about any larger meaning in The Shining: “He didn’t tell an audience what to think or how to think, and if everyone came out thinking something differently, that was fine with him. That said, I’m certain that he wouldn’t have wanted to listen to about 70, or maybe 80, percent” of Room 237. "It's pure gibberish.”
From the Press Release
IFC Midnight is proud to present Rodney Ascher's highly acclaimed Room 237, »
- Uncle Creepy
'Room 237': All 47 Movies Used in the Documentary About 'The Shining'
28 March 2013 8:38 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
"Room 237" is hardly your average documentary. Not only does it float some very out-there theories about what Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" is really about, it illustrates those points with clips from both the 1980 horror classic and dozens of other movies. Every single shot in the film is from an existing flick, including ones from Kubrick, Hitchcock, and Spielberg, as well as classic horror movies and silent films. Moviefone sat down with director Rodney Ascher and producer Tim Kirk, who provided insight into some of their choices. In the same spirit of obsessiveness, we've compiled every movie featured in "Room 237," below “The Shining” "Lolita" "Spartacus" "Eyes Wide Shut" "Paths of Glory" "Barry Lyndon" "2001: A Space Odyssey" "The Killing" "Fear and Desire" "Killer's Kiss" "Dr. Strangelove" "A Clockwork Orange" “Full Metal Jacket" "Drums Along the Mohawk" "The Battle of Apache Pass" "The White Buffalo" "Sitting Bull at the »
- Alex Suskind
Stanley Kubrick Pal Dismisses 'Room 237' Theories, Armond White Says Film Is "End Of Cinephilia"
28 March 2013 6:03 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Some details from within a film production serve to heighten the project's legend overall: the genius of “Jaws” only increased when the film's original gameplan -- a fully functional shark -- failed to manifest itself for Steven Spielberg and co. But the opposite has been true with Stanley Kubrick's “The Shining,” as now another crewmember has come to debunk the myriad theories and meanings behind the director's film -- starting with those featured in Rodney Ascher's upcoming documentary “Room 237.” With the shadow in the opening credits to the horror classic already clarified by the film's helicopter camera operator, now a source even closer to the production has come out to address the various conspiracy theory claims presented in “Room 237.” Leon Vitali, first glimpsed by Kubrick as an actor in “Barry Lyndon” and then brought up to be the director's assistant, has called the majority of Ascher's Sundance hit “pure gibberish. »
- Charlie Schmidlin
Amazing Stories – Literally: Nolan, Kubrick, and the Puzzle of Puzzle Pictures
27 March 2013 3:41 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Sixth Sense has come and gone as has its (alleged) twist ending. It’s hard to categorize The Sixth Sense but like The Shining or Inception I shall dub it as part of the puzzle picture genre that keeps appearing then disappearing only to come back. At first sight, the very existence of puzzle pictures is a puzzle since most people just want to enjoy a good show and not experience some cerebral mediation on filmmaking. Directors for obvious reasons are tempted into this territory. It allows them to, literally, have their cake and eat it, too, by showering the audience with endless riddles (many of them irrelevant to main narrative). Watching The Ninth Gate one wonders whether the director is trying to keep the main characters or audience confused.
The approach of puzzles comes in many varieties of course. Kubrick liked to use his puzzles to make some deep political or philosophical point. »
- Christian Jimenez
Four Posters for The Shining Documentary “Room 237″
27 March 2013 8:54 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Room 237 was written and directed by Rodney Ascher, and explores the secrets behind Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The film will be released to theaters, VOD, and digital download on March 29th, and we’ve been provide with four poster for readers to check out.
“After the box office failure of Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick decided to embark on a project that might have more commercial appeal. The Shining, Stephen King’s biggest critical and commercial success yet, seemed like a perfect vehicle. After an arduous production, Kubrick’s film received a wide release in the summer of 1980; the reviews were mixed, but the box office, after a slow start, eventually picked up. End of story? Hardly. In the 30 years since the film’s release, a considerable cult of Shining devotees has emerged, fans who claim to have decoded the film’s secret messages addressing everything from the genocide »
- Jonathan James
Latest Poster for Room 237 is One Hell of a Brain Teaser
26 March 2013 4:12 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Here's one for you that's bound to tax your noodle. Wow, that sounded kind of dirty, didn't it? In any event... a new poster for The Shining documentary Room 237 has arrived. Check it out!
From the Press Release
IFC Midnight is proud to present Rodney Ascher's highly acclaimed Room 237, which will be released on March 29, 2013, at IFC Center and Elinor Bunim Monroe Film Center in New York City, followed by a national rollout. The film will simultaneously be available on Cable VOD, iTunes, and other digital outlets (Sundance Now, Amazon Streaming, Xbox, and more).
Since its premiere at Sundance, Room 237 had been a festival sensation at Cannes, Toronto, New York, Chicago, AFI, and Fantastic Fest. The film also won the Ida Documentary Award for Best Editing.
Synopsis
After the box office failure of Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick decided to embark on a project that might have more commercial appeal. »
- Uncle Creepy
New Poster for Room 237 Comes in a Can
21 March 2013 11:00 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
One-sheets in promotion of movies, etc., should always entice and elicit a response from the prospective viewer. The days of the floating head design seem to be just about behind us so it's getting easier to appreciate new creative artwork. Such is the case here with this latest poster for Room 237.
From the Press Release
IFC Midnight is proud to present Rodney Ascher's highly acclaimed Room 237, which will be released on March 29, 2013, at IFC Center and Elinor Bunim Monroe Film Center in New York City, followed by a national rollout. The film will simultaneously be available on Cable VOD, iTunes, and other digital outlets (Sundance Now, Amazon Streaming, Xbox, and more).
Since its premiere at Sundance, Room 237 had been a festival sensation at Cannes, Toronto, New York, Chicago, AFI, and Fantastic Fest. The film also won the Ida Documentary Award for Best Editing.
Synopsis
After the »
- Uncle Creepy
New Poster for The Shining Doc Room 237 - Calumet Baking Powder
20 March 2013 3:25 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Later this month you'll finally be able to see the mind blowing documentary for The Shining, Room 237. If you're a fan of Stanley Kubrick's classic horror film, then this doc is a must watch! Thanks to io9 we have a new poster for the film that features an illustration created around "Calumet Baking Powder", which you see in the background of the film, but which could have a bigger meaning than what you might expect. It also features a silhouette of Apollo 11. What does Apollo 11 have to do with The Shining? It's all explained in depth in the doc, and you'll just have to wait to see!
As I've said before there's just so many awesome conspiracy theories packed into this movie, it will take multiple viewings to get all of the secrets that reside in the Overlook Hotel. Make sure to check out our review »
- Joey Paur
SXSW: 'Community' star Gillian Jacobs goes nuts in break-up comedy short -- Exclusive Clip
14 March 2013 10:02 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
You’re at the SXSW festival, thinking you’re watching a fairly typical short about young love gone tediously, toxically bad when suddenly someone impales themselves on a glass coffee table. Matt Spicer’s dark comedy short It’s Not You, It’s Me, which has been playing all week as part of the shorts program, stars Gillian Jacobs (Community) and Fran Kranz (The Cabin in the Woods) in a clever snapshot of a woman dangerously pushed to the brink. Spicer, who wrote the script with his brother Eric, says Jacobs’ character was in part inspired by an ex-girlfriend who »
- Karen Valby
Listen: 11-Minute Interview With Stanley Kubrick Discussing 'Barry Lyndon,' 'The Shining' & 'Full Metal Jacket'
13 March 2013 7:39 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
He’s one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, so if there’s ever a chance to hear more from Stanley Kubrick about the art of filmmaking then it would be crazy not to listen. An 11-minute interview with Kubrick has surfaced from a conversation he had with French film critic Michel Ciment, in which he specifically discusses “Barry Lyndon,” “The Shining” and “Full Metal Jacket.” You can listen to the interview on the YouTube video below, and it is truly fascinating to hear one of the greats talking about getting the smaller details right in his movies; from costume and lighting (how do you discuss “Barry Lyndon” and not discuss the lighting?), to making a supernatural movie that doesn’t have the artifice associated with the genre. The interview is then brilliantly signed off by Kubrick declaring himself merely an “aesthetic opportunist.” So definitely give this a listen if you get a chance, »
- Joe Cunningham
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