r/StanleyKubrick

So Digger has Kubrick references out the wazoo. Cruise is in it. Opens with a man in the 2001 bedroom, continues with him boppin' a baseball bat down red stairs a la The Shining and into a meeting of Strangelovian significance and absurdity. Anyone see it?

Original title of the headline: Criterion Finally Gives Americans the Chance to See Kubrick’s Preferred Cut of ‘The Shining’ — but Which Version Is Better?

It's BS, Stanley considered both the U.S. and International Cuts director's cuts and kept both cuts in circulation.

A little background: the first time I watched the film I didn’t like or understand it at all. I knew I was missing something. The second or third watch it really clicked and I love it now. I’ve since become a huge reader and thought to start the novel.

The first 50 pages or so I felt lost all over again. Then it clicked, again. I’m now almost done and I think I might like the book even more than the film. It’s incredible how through reading, I am able to adapt and I feel like I have learned a new language.

The only issue is that I feel I’m only able to latch onto the novel through reference of the film.

I guess I’m just hoping to hear from fans of the book or movie about their experiences with each and which they like more.

I am just so invested in the world right now.

Also sorry to mods if this is a bad place to post this.

A detailed look at what’s inside The Complete Kubrick, the box set from Criterion. 30 discs with the 13 feature films and 3 short documentaries directed by Stanley Kubrick, plus more than 25 hours of special features.

I've received an advance copy and here's a comprehensive review of what's inside the box.

As much as all 3 are interesting to think about, there are still outside factors and conditions that would affect them, and also either happened because they weren’t made or are the reason the films did not get made.

View Poll

In this second episode of Turner Classic Movie's Podcast about Stanley Kubrick, we hear how Kubrick made the pivot from photography to filmmaking, first in documentary shorts to features, with some in depth detail about each. Interestingly, we hear about Kubrick's love for Chess, and how this lifelong hobby of his could easily be seen as a metaphor for him as a filmmaker too. All of this while Kubrick went through two marriages which are discussed as well. Overall, well worth listening to for fans of Kubrick or film fans in general.