A fan's first opening of the Kubrick book set Words can't express how awesome this Taschen book or should I say 'production.' For those who are into Kubrick this is a must. It's $700, but Amazon is totally out and copies are being sold for $1,134.00. But we have 7 copies in stock for $700!!!! Here are the visuals: And here's a documentary put together by Taschen and the Kubrick estate on this masterpiece....
"I am Spartacus!" Okay. No, I'm not. But if Starz's Spartacus: Blood and Sand is any good, it could reintroduce a new generation of fans to the legend of a slave taking on an empire. The original Stanley Kubrick-directed classic is an immortal part of entertainment history, but it's one of those films that you don't see on TV much in the age of DVDs. According to a network release, Starz...
" Juliet of the Spirits " aka "Giulietta degli spiriti" ( Federico Fellini , 1965) Any director's first forays into color from black and white are worthy of attention. John Ford filled his palette with startling reds. Stanley Kubrick set his first color film in the black and white world of space-travel and suffused interior spaces with hot red's , pale greens and cool blues. Fellini...
Can a science-fiction movie infringe a tech patent? “Imagine if NASA sued Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey claiming dominion over space travel.” Not quite that, but still crazy… Tagged: Entertainment, Film, Law, News, Technology
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: From Stalin To Frampton To Bambaataa By Dave Tompkins The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon’s speech scrambling weapon This is the story of how a military device became the robot voice of hip-hop and pop music. Though the vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, was designed to guard phones from eavesdroppers, it expanded beyond its original...
[We're partnering with game criticism site Critical Distance to present some of the week's most inspiring writing about the art and design of video games from commentators worldwide. This week, Ben Abraham discusses Far Cry 2, Burnout Paradise, and what not to do in game journalism.] Quintin Smith is a games journalist type, and here’s part 2 and part 3 of his advice to future games journalist...
The DGA will give Norman Jewison its top honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Motion Picture Direction, on Jan. 30 at the 62nd annual DGA Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel. As a feature director and producer, his credits include “The Cincinnati Kid,” “In the Heat of the Night,” “Fiddler on [...]
From a book called Screen Epiphanies , a few directors (Danny Boyle, Mira Nair, Martin Scorsese, etc.) share the films that first inspired them . Here's Lars von Trier on Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: Watching Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon is a pleasure, like eating a very good soup. It is very stylised and then suddenly comes some emotion [when the child falls off the horse]. There is not a lot of emotion....
If you noticed an abnormal amount of red in your Twitter feed today, it's because much of the Twitterverse and Twitter-Wood population was observing World AIDS Day. Russell Brand, Paris Hilton, Virginia Madsen and Ashton Kutcher were among those tweeting for awareness -- though Brand predictably did so with lighter sensibilities. In other tweetage, Rainn Wilson [...]
[Non-climatologist makes up some numbers based on other fudged and deleted numbers] - Telegraph An ambitious deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions needs to be agreed at the Copenhagen climate summit to give a 50/50 chance of keeping temperatures from rising more than 2C, Lord Stern has said. [Climate Realism from an ACTOR?]: Big Hollywood » Adam Baldwin » ‘Climategate’: Good...
Last month, during an early round of promotion pegged to this week's release of his Up in the Air , director Jason Reitman posted to Twitter a cute pie chart cataloging the topics of every question he'd been asked in interviews. Why? Maybe it was for posterity, or to challenge reporters to be a little more creative, or perhaps it was simply meant as a scathing indictment of modern junket journalism...
In New YorkTobias Grey reports on 'A volume big and obsessive enough to contain Stanley Kubrick's never-made masterpiece, Napoleon ', in The Cinemascope Spectacular of Books The Taschen volume is 2874 pages -- a: "Hardcover with 10 smaller books inserted" -- and costs $ 700.00. See the official publicity page , or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk .
Who cares if Black Friday is done and gone? For sci-fi fans, Cyber Monday is where it's at! Hundreds of online retailers are offering special deals for today only, including the LEGO Star Wars Death Star, James Cameron's Avatar: The Game , and many others. Check out 11 great deals below!
An interview with the great Italian composer and pianist Alessandro Esseno, considered by critics one of the most interesting musicians in the world. The new album after 10 years of research, from classical music to experimental electronic, an artist has always been at the forefront. "The nature of music is essentially metaphysical, this is what I've always been fascinated with the sounds and noises....
Created at least in part du to popular demand, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars will provide some closure to fans who were dismayed by the demise of the popular science fiction television show in 2003 and campaigned mightily to bring it back. Indeed, this miniseries (originally broadcast over two nights on the Sci-Fi Channel) will likely appeal primarily to the Farscape faithful, as the somewhat convoluted
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) –On a hazy mid-August morning at the swanky Viceroy hotel in Santa Monica, California, indie rock royalty Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and Mike Mogis -- who have gathered to promote their new band, Monsters of Folk -- are nestled on a mustard-colored couch in a quiet room with all-yellow vintage decor that resembles a set from a Stanley Kubrick film. At the moment, however,...
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