Making 'The Shining' (TV 1980)

A look behind the scenes during the making of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

Director:

Vivian Kubrick

Stars:

Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick, Danny Lloyd

Cast

Credited cast:
Jack Nicholson	...	Himself
Stanley Kubrick	...	Himself
Danny Lloyd	...	Himself
Scatman Crothers	...	Himself
Shelley Duvall	...	Herself
Gert Kubrick	...	Herself
Brian W. Cook	...	Himself
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Garrett Brown	...	Himself
Vivian Kubrick	...	Herself (voice)
James Mason	...	Himself
Leon Vitali	...	Himself

Storyline

A look behind the scenes during the making of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

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Plot Keywords:

behind the scenes | making of | film making | insanity | paranormal | 

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Genres:

Documentary | Short

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1980 (West Germany)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Eagle Film SS

Technical Specs

Runtime:

35 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This documentary can be found on the 2-Disc Special Edition DVD of The Shining, released in 2007.

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Quotes

Jack Nicholson: Anything you do as many times as a successful actor, you can't have one set of theories, you know. You can go for years saying "I'm gonna get this thing real", because they really haven't seen it real, do you know? They just keep seeing one fashion of unreal after the other that passes as real and you, you know, you go mad with realism and then you come up against someone like Stanley who says, "Yeah, it's real but it's not interesting."

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Connections

Featured in The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Episode #1.8 (2011)

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Soundtracks

"The Rite of Spring"
(uncredited)
Written by Igor Stravinsky

User Reviews

Stanley's prodigious daughter

I can't seem to stop watching or thinking about this little documentary and it really makes me want to view the rest of the footage. How can one be so obsessed with a Making of film? I often find them more interesting than the films themselves. Jack Nicholson's camera charm antics, "beautiful! finish the assignment!" Vivien's ultra-cute sounding voice "Thats not true it's 8 o'clock." I was a bit disappointed in the new "A Life in Pictures" documentary from Jan Harlan, mostly banal interviews and film clips, where's all the behind the scenes footage from his various films? That's what I want to see, more footage of Stanley having a fit and getting frustrated. Thank god for Vivian's Making the Shining, she is a prodigy. To think she photographed that at age 17, with a large heavy Aaton 16mm (I'm assuming) and did a magnificent job of filming. A truly amazing job, absolutely astounding, incredible, precocious. I often wonder what line of work she went into later in life, she probably could have been an amazing cinematographer, which is a field somewhat lacking the female gender. Vivien, if your out there, contact me, I'd like to hire you to shoot my next film!