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March 19, 2013Like the blood that gushes forth from the elevators of the Overlook Hotel, brilliant/ridiculous theories of what Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is really about have for years surged madly and memorably--especially online, where the Internet's dead ends, blind links, and back-where-you-started argumen ... More >>
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September 28, 2012For the next two weeks, the Voice's film critics will be offering daily looks at the movies at this year's new York Film Festival.
This morning, Nick Schager dishes about two worthwhile documentaries off the Main Slate: Room 237, that copyright-braving examination of the complexities of The Shinin ... More >>
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September 26, 2012Or is it a metaphor for the slaughter of American Indians?
Both theories are floated in Room 237, a documentary playing the New York Film Festival, which has various cinephiles--some astute, some bonkers--spewing their ideas as to the hidden messages in Stanley Kubrick's 1981 horror classic based o ... More >>
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June 20, 2012Not sure if he's the one who should be outing anyone, but here's what the American Psycho author (above) has been tweeting:
"Has anyone heard that Stanley Kubrick was gay? Info from two very good sources that despite wife and kids he had a long-term male partner."
"I don't care who's gay and who ... More >>
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January 27, 2012​After eight days in Park City, I'm back in Los Angeles; the festival continues through the weekend, with the awards announced Saturday night. Here are some notes on films I didn't get a chance to write about at length. Keep an eye out for my wrap-up of the festival in next week's print edition.2 ... More >>
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January 31, 2011Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
February 10, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 6
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By Andrew Sarris
The subject of violence has been so persistently debated and so pretentiously demonstrated in recent movies that reviewers are beginning to sound more like revivalists ... More >>
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January 21, 2011Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
December 30, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 52
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By Andrew Sarris
By the time this review appears in print, Stanley Kubrick's "A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" may have won the best movie award from both the New York Film Critics and the National ... More >>
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October 29, 2010Your best alternative to opting out of Halloween completely: Vegging in front of the ol' tele -- because, let's get serious for a second, the idea of partying it up Sunday night isn't exactly motivating when you consider the East Village barrage of drunken revelers, that getting a costume now ... More >>
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September 11, 2010Hello, RobertLast weekend we noted the slowly budding LSD renaissance, when even the New York Times paid tribute to the drug through the accomplishments of druggie acid legend Dock Ellis. But as with every powerful chemical, it's not all rosy kaleidoscope visuals and stamping out depression - ... More >>
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September 8, 2010Navigating the trenches with Kubrick
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August 17, 2010
Stanley Kubrick's 1964 dark comedy Dr. Strangelove is the ultimate film about doomsday, paranoia, political idiocy, and the A-bomb.
Well, someone at Fox News is going to get really paranoid when they take a look at the acting credits my pal Amy Lumet has dug up.
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May 22, 2010It takes the New York Times exactly 700 words today to admit their trend piece on the length of movie titles may very well be another entry into the canon of article-length specious claims. The crux of the article is that "with studios churning out more sequels than ever, and eager to link th ... More >>
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