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All Stories for Stanley Kubrick
The Shining at 40: Revisiting Stanley Kubrick’s cautionary tale of isolation, creative frustration in times of lockdown
Prahlad Srihari • 5 years agoThe more you immerse yourself in Stanley Kubrick's world of The Shining, the more you see it as a dark reflection of lockdown life in 2020.
Coronavirus Outbreak: Jim Carrey's new artwork portrays Donald Trump, Boris Johnson as ghost twins from The Shining
Fp Staff • 5 years agoJim Carrey's portrayal of the two world leaders was a commentary on their poor handling of the coronavirus pandemic
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris vs the Steven Soderbergh version, plus a diss about Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoThoughts on Solaris director Andrei Tarkovsky's dig at Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, where he equated the latter's sci-fi film to a "comic book."
Devs review: Will quantum computing debunk the myth of free will? Alex Garland’s sci-fi series explores
Prahlad Srihari • 5 years agoFrom the two episodes currently available for streaming, it is hard to accurately identify the purpose of the computer at the heart of Devs.
Vicky Kaushal on experimenting with Bhoot - Part One: The Haunted Ship, and why he's scared of watching horror films
Seemas12 • 5 years agoVicky Kaushal discusses the shift in his technique while switching from comedy and drama to horror, where much is left to the actor's imagination.
Oscars 2020: How Joaquin Phoenix, not Joker, became a voice for the voiceless this awards season
Prahlad Srihari • 5 years agoJoaquin Phoenix's acceptance speeches at awards like Oscars and the change they may drive could empower the voiceless in a way his film Joker never could.
Ad Astra, High Life tell fundamentally human stories of the inner self with cosmic mysteries as a backdrop
Prahlad Srihari • 5 years agoThe journey at the heart of Ad Astra and High Life is not one about unravelling the mysteries of the cosmos, but an introspective one on what grounds us to our own world.
How a viewer benefits from knowing the plot of a film, through the lens of two titles at MAMI 2019
Baradwaj Rangan • 6 years agoDoes it matter Oliver Laxe's Spanish film Fire Will Come gives us a mere hint of plot, whereas Konkani drama Kaajro (Bitter Tree) gives the entire plot away?
Venice Film Festival 2019: The reverse chronology in Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible, which gets an Out of Competition screening
Baradwaj Rangan • 6 years agoGasper Noe's French experimental thriller Irreversible, which will be screened at the Venice Film Festival this year, forces us to think about the sexual violence involved.
Venice Film Festival 2019: Joaquin Phoenix's Joker, Brad Pitt's Ad Astra to compete for Golden Lion at Biennale
Fp Staff • 6 years agoHirokazu Kore-eda's The Truth will be opening the 76th edition of Venice Film Festival.