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In Reply to: RE: Well that was written as ...fullnote. posted by halfnote on March 10, 2008 at 21:18:53

Well I try to evaluate also a film withing the puzzle of an artist work, And Kubrick was one per excellence, remember a few years ago visiting the Film Museum in Frankfurt with all that stuff his German wife was willing to lend.
All his films are in a way deranging and asking, thirsting for reflexion.
But in his work there is something " unclean " to my taste, something ugly, the most kind of his film and my favourit is also the one he always made perfect.
Barry Lyndon.
Lolita was also an excellent film to my taste.
I just resaw Dr. Strangelove and even If I could without problem seat through all the film, I could see how that one was made " sur mesure " on its own time, a great mistake for sure.
In one word too intellectual with a rigid goal to follow, that do not make always good films.
Like his last one.
A disaster.

I never thought that it was not! T.S reflexion..I mean. But how do you come to think that way?

PS: A pleasure to discuss with you...

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RE: Well that was written as ...fullnote. - halfnote 21:20:00 03/11/08 (1)
Hmmm, not sure exactly what you are asking me to respond to.

But I concur that there is something people might term "unclean" in his films, which others have characterized as detachment, cold and unfeeling objectivity, even cynicism. Isn't is funny how often people seem small and venal in his films? Where are his heroes? The Captain in Paths of Glory? Dave in 2001? Joker in Jacket? There is a certain misanthropic strain in his films, I would agree. And, often, the hero is make a mockery, as is Lady Lyndon's son, or Commander Kong.

As you may have guessed, I am a big Kubrick fan. And there are many people who do not hold his films in the highest esteem. But i find them all to be deeply engrossing, intellectually challenging, and exaquisitely made.

I can remember being unimpressed with a few of them upon first viewing: Jacket and Lyndon in particular. But today, I revere them.

I am still "stewing" Eyes Wide Shut, and though there are scenes that seem flawed, and the plot seems contrived at times, my appreciation for it, too, is growing. I still can't get over Kubrick's decision to replace Harvey Keitel with Sidney Pollack. I am nagged constantly by how unconvincing Pollack is in so many of his scenes, and much better Keitel would have been.
- RE: Well that was written as ...fullnote. - patrickU 05:26:03 03/12/08 (0)
  Did I ask something?
  No I did not, just like running water one thought and or the other...
  I thin Kubrick was an angry man, defying any kind of authority, save is oneself.
  But does it matter?
  His work does.
  Some is justt a bit revolting for the sake of being so.
  Taken at any degree, so
  
  EWS is flawed and if you are by it the biggest is Tom Cruise.
  For his ex wife she try so hard that you get the strain as a viewer.
  
  Anyway he is one of the very best, and what I feel is a certain kind of deception with passing time looking at his works.
  That may be MY problem...

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