Showing posts with label Stanley Kubrick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stanley Kubrick. Show all posts

Thursday, December 19, 2024

On this day in movie history - A Clockwork Orange (1971):


A Clockwork Orange

directed by Stanley Kubrick,
based on the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess,
premiered in Canada on December 19, 1971.
Music by Wendy Carlos.


Cast:

Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, Michael Gover, Miriam Karlin, James Marcus, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Sheila Raynor, Madge Ryan, Anthony Sharp, Philip Stone, Michael Tarn, David Prowse, Carol Drinkwater, Steven Berkoff, Margaret Tyzack, Pauline Taylor.

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

On this day in movie history - Barry Lyndon (1975):


Barry Lyndon

directed and written by Stanley Kubrick,
based on the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray,
was released in the United States on December 18, 1975.
Music by Leonard Rosenman and Ralph Ferraro.
Main theme Sarabande by George Frideric Handel.
Women of Ireland by Peadar Ó Doirnín and Seán Ó Riada, performed by The Chieftains.


Cast:

Michael Hordern, Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Gay Hamilton, Godfrey Quigley, Steven Berkoff, Marie Kean, Murray Melvin, Frank Middlemass, Leon Vitali, Dominic Savage, Leonard Rossiter, André Morell, Anthony Sharp, Philip Stone, David Morley, Diana Koerner, Arthur O'Sullivan, Billy Boyle, Jonathan Cecil, Peter Cellier, Geoffrey Chater, Wolf Kahler, Liam Redmond, Roger Booth, Ferdy Mayne, John Sharp, Pat Roach, Hans Meyer.

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Born on this day – John Alcott:


John Alcott


Cinematographer

November 27, 1930 – July 28, 1986


John Alcott, with Stanley Kubrick and Shelley Duvall, on the set of The Shining (1980).

Credits:

No Way Out (1987); White Water Summer (1987); Miracles (1986); Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985); Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984); Under Fire (1983); Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983); The Beastmaster (1982); Vice Squad (1982); Fort Apache the Bronx (1981); Terror Train (1980); The Shining (1980); Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora (1980); Fiat Strada: Figaro (1979); Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978); The Disappearance (1977); March or Die (1977); Barry Lyndon (1975); Overlord (1975); Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974); A Clockwork Orange (1971); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Othello (1965); Tamahine (1963); The Main Attraction (1962); Whistle Down the Wind (1961); The Singer Not the Song (1961); An heiligen Wassern (1960); North West Frontier (1959); A Night to Remember (1958); Violent Playground (1958); Checkpoint (1956); Tiger in the Smoke (1956); A Town Like Alice (1956); An Alligator Named Daisy (1955); Value for Money (1955); Simba (1955); Land of Fury (1954); Man with a Million (1954); Desperate Moment (1953); The Long Memory (1953); The Assassin (1952); The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952); Easy Money (1948).

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

On this day in movie history - Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick (2007):


Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

directed by Gary Leva,
written by Gary Leva and Pi Ware,
was released in the United States on October 23, 2007.
Narrated by Malcolm McDowell.

Cast:

Malcolm McDowell, Jack Nicholson, Sydney Pollack, Jan Harlan, John Calley, John Baxter, Anthony Frewin, Paul Duncan, Stuart McDougal, Daniel Richter, Louis Begley, Joseph Mazzello, Barbara Daly, Roy Walker, Stanley Kubrick.

Sunday, October 20, 2024

On this day in movie history - Kubrick by Kubrick (2020):


Kubrick by Kubrick

a documentary directed and written by Gregory Monro,
was released at the Chicago International Film Festival in the United States on October 20, 2020.
Music by Vincent Théard.


Cast:

Stanley Kubrick, Michel Ciment, Malcolm McDowell, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Sterling Hayden, Arthur C. Clarke, Marisa Berenson, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Sellers, Garrett Brown, Ken Adam, Leonard Rosenman, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Christiane Kubrick, Roger Ebert, Dann Gire, Maurice Beaupère, J.-H. Bigay, Kirk Douglas, Pierre Fruchon, Sue Lyon, James Mason, Agop Terzan.

Sunday, October 6, 2024

On this day in movie history - Spartacus (1960):


Spartacus

directed by Stanley Kubrick,
written by Dalton Trumbo,
based on the novel by Howard Fast,
was released in the United States on October 6, 1960.
Music by Alex North.


Cast:

Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, John Gavin, John Dall, Nina Foch, John Ireland, Herbert Lom, Charles McGraw, Joanna Barnes, Harold J. Stone, Woody Strode, Peter Brocco, Paul Lambert, Robert J. Wilke, Nicholas Dennis, John Hoyt, Frederic Worlock, Gil Perkins, Cliff Lyons.

Saturday, September 21, 2024

On this day in movie history - Killer’s Kiss (1955):


Killer’s Kiss

directed by Stanley Kubrick,
written by Howard Sackler,
based on a story by Stanley Kubrick,
was released in the United States on September 21, 1955.
Music by Gerald Fried.


Cast:

Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Frank Silvera, Jerry Jarrett, Mike Dana, Felice Orlandi, Skippy Adelman, David Vaughan, Alec Rubin, Ralph Roberts, Phil Stevenson, Ruth Sobotka.

Friday, July 26, 2024

A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick:


A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick.

In celebration of his movies:

Day of the Fight (1951)


Flying Padre (1951)


The Seafarers (1953)


Fear and Desire (1953)


Killer's Kiss (1955)


The Killing (1956)


Paths of Glory (1957)


Spartacus (1960)


Lolita (1962)


Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)


A Clockwork Orange (1971)


Barry Lyndon (1975)


The Shining (1980)


Full Metal Jacket (1987)


Eyes Wide Shut (1999)


Video created by Jack Kost.
2022.

Music credit:
Cryptic Sorrow by Kevin MacLeod.


If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

– Stanley Kubrick.


In memory of Stanley Kubrick

Director

Producer

Writer

Photographer

July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999