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It didn't include a dvd, it had an audio cd which is also included in this reprint.

The only thing that is missing is a strip of film from Kubrick's personal copy of 2001.

Cool, I didn't notice that the CD was included. I can certainly live without the film strip.

This is a must for me, especially because Amazon is listing it at $44.10 for preorder right now. What an awesome deal.

mfunk9786 wrote:Where is it mentioned that this will be in a smaller format? If so, how much smaller?

This is a must for me, especially because Amazon is listing it at $41.xx for preorder right now. What an awesome deal.

In the 'Facts' section of the page I linked to it gives the size as 12.9 x 9.6 The first version was 16.2 x 11.8

Yeah, I'd seen that and edited. I actually may even prefer the smaller version for shelf reasons, so I'm not sweating the fact that it's shrunk a bit.

£30.00 for the UK edition from Amazon.co.uk - and postage is FREE. Surely a must-buy for those - that includes me - who didn't buy the first edition. It wasn't the price that bothered me, but the size. I'm not a big fan of having monstrous tomes like that at home. Tim Lucas' shibbolethic magnum opus on Bava is a joke, to my eyes. That should have been two volumes. Bizarre publishing - and as many people placed orders when the cost was set at $70(?) BIG money was surely lost out on, too. A gorgeous book, no question about it, but it's unmanageably huge and way too expensive. I absolutely love Bava, but it all seems a bit too much - hard to justify. An excruciating labour love for Tim and Donna Lucas, and it puts most books on the titans on Cinema to shame in its scope, depth and aesthetic quality. Troy Howarth's book (which I own in hardback) is absolutely superb, though it got some criticism. That cost me £30.

Well, this is pretty cool. Fantastic Fest is heading to Portland, Oregon for a Halloween party/screening of The Shining at the Timberline Lodge where it was filmed.

Antoine Doinel wrote:Well, this is pretty cool. Fantastic Fest is heading to Portland, Oregon for a Halloween party/screening of The Shining at the Timberline Lodge where it was filmed.

It was modeled on Timberline Lodge (and only a few seconds of the actual building are in the film)
not to be a total dick.

Is it possible to read Kubrick's draft of "Aryan Papers" anywhere? Anyone?

Apparently there's no actual draft, just an archive full of material that Kubrick had gathered.

Turner prized nominated artists Jane and Louise Wilson have created an art installation based on The Aryan Papers, featuring interviews with Johanna ter Steege who was originally cast, and who worked with Kubrick on pre-production. And according to the article, there was a script written at some point. That said, who knows how much Kubrick would've revised it had he decided to shoot it.

World's nerdiest Stephen King fan publishes Jack Torrance's "novel" from The Shining. But be careful because,

Phil Bueler wrote:A few people have asked me to sign it - they're looking it as a piece of art rather than a funny thing to give to a Kubrick fan. If you're not a Kubrick or King fan, you might not even get it.

That's cute. I always felt bad for Kubrick's secretary, who had to type the pages constantly when she wasn't doing something else. Apparently at one point there were four or five people working on it at the same time, because for every take they had to get fresh paper, as Duvall would muss the ones in the scene up. And, of course, there were dozens of takes.

More 4 recently showed Jon Ronson's documentary 'Stanley Kubrick's Boxes' again. Ronson had been invited to meet Kubrick and also view the boxes after his death because his documentary 'Hotel Auschwitz' had been one of Kubrick's viewing interests when Aryan Papers was in pre-production. It debunks the media portrayal of Kubrick though when he asks a photographer to photograph Commercial St in East London in its entirety, one shot at a time, you somehow wonder....

thirtyframesasecond wrote:It debunks the media portrayal of Kubrick though when he asks a photographer to photograph Commercial St in East London in its entirety, one shot at a time, you somehow wonder....

And each one 12' up a ladder, move the ladder, go up, take a picture, move the ladder, etc. Jury's out, I'd say.

Two things:

First, there seems to be two different versions of Stanley Kubrick's Boxes. There's one version floating around online that was broadcast on the BBC. Another version was broadcast on the Sundance channel and seemed to contain more footage. Most significant to hardcore Kubrick geeks was at least 2 more (very short) segments from the Making Full Metal Jacket, shot by Vivian Kubrick. I remember one showed Kubrick watching as Lee Ermey tested his chest-wound squib and the other was a wide shot of Kubrick and his team behind the camera as they filmed the low angle shot of Lee Ermey berating Joker after punching him in the stomach.

Second, in the documentary A Life In Pictures, during the Aryan Papers segment, it actually shows the title page for the script, perhaps inferring that it does in fact exist. If the Napoleon script exists, then no doubt Aryan might as well. If you happen to get your hands on it, for the love of God please post it here.

I have the Napoleon script. I thought it was readily available, no?

It sure is, I have it as well and got it from the net years ago

why am I having a hard time finding the Napoleon script?

thanks! I now have weekend reading. School work will again suffer.

Has this been discussed in this thread yet? or can I ask what people's impressions of this script are?

I've only read the first ten pages or so, but really like it. I wish it hadn't fallen through anyway and it fits Kubrick's sensibilities like a glove. No complaint at all. Plus just the thought of Pre-Shinning Nicholson in French uniform blowing away some guy at pointblank range is great. I really should try to finish some day.

venusinfurs wrote:I was thinking of selling my Stanley Kubrick Archives 1st edition. Just wandering if anybody knows the worth of this book. Thank you

Wander over to Amazon Marketplace to see what it's going for.