Stanley Kubrick portrait by Antony Hare. Plenty more on his site, including Hitchcock and Coppola. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
Beautiful poster by Martin Ansin for “Taming Light”, a group exhibition featuring painting, photography and illustration inspired by the films of Stanley Kubrick. I watched British documentarian Jon Ronson’s film Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes on my return flight from New York — it’s an obvious labour of love almost a decade in the making, and contains fascinating archival footage of the director at work. (via John Gruber)
After he finished making True Lies, Cameron called Kubrick, by then a recluse, and invited himself over. They spent a day, in the basement of Kubrick’s house in the English countryside, watching True Lies at Kubrick’s flatbed editing station. Cameron went over the shots … so that Kubrick could learn how the effects were done.
— One of many anecdotes from The New Yorker’s lengthy feature on James Cameron ahead of his sci-fi opus Avatar, opening in December. (via José Barbosa)
“Stanley Kubrick” by Daniel Park. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
They Were Collaborators: Malcolm McDowell and Stanley Kubrick, from the blog of Tom Sutpen. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
Words of wisdom, Lloyd, my man. Words of wisdom.
Stanley Kubrick by Kent St John. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
“Moloko Vellocet” (2007) by Miami artist Terribly Odd, takes inspiration from Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. His “Poe Folks” exhibition from last Halloween — inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe — is worth a look too. (via OMG Posters)
But while the dream of the big score may be what attracts the audience’s attention, the classic heist movies all show — sometimes in excruciating detail — that the acquisition of easy money can be mighty hard work.
— From Terrence Rafferty’s New York Times retrospective of the heist movie genre.
