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"2001: A Space Odyssey" Showing at Avon Theatre Film Center in Stamford
2001: A Space Odyssey may be the most epic movie of all time, a dated but romantic vision of the future directed by the great Stanley Kubrick in 1968. Signs of extraterrestrial intelligence are discovered, and astronauts are sent on a secret mission to...
Tags: Stamford, 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Arts and Culture
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The man behind the people who know the story behind 'The Shining'
You know the Calumet Baking Powder cans in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"? You know — the Calumet Baking cans? Lining the pantry of the film's Overlook Hotel? No, no: The baking cans behind all the carnage! Right, those baking cans. What's that,...
Tags: Sundance Film Festival, The Shining (movie), Movies, Film Festivals, ABC (tv network)
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Movie secrets are there, in the script!
You know what "Star Wars" is about? I mean, really about? Vietnam. It's a critical allegory of the war: The Rebels are the scrappy Viet Cong, hastily assembled, devoted and relentless; the Empire is the American military, tripped up by an enemy using...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Transformers (movie), Religion and Belief, Platoon (movie), Sean Connery
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David Bowie exhibition in London is a hit before it opens
It may not be on many art-world purists' list of must-see exhibitions for the year, but the upcoming show devoted to rock star David Bowie at London's Victoria and Albert Museum is proving to be a popular hit, with a reported 50,000 advance tickets sold....Tags: David Bowie, Tim Burton, Arts and Culture, Arts, Museums
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Words, images, music, courtesy of Bert Stern
The soul-filling and gorgeous concert film "Jazz on a Summer's Day," shot during the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, started out as something else — a fiction feature, with jazz and Newport, R.I., as the backdrops, according to photographer and...Tags: Entertainment, Concerts, Festive Events, Lindsay Lohan, Music
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Digging deep into 'The Shining'
There is nothing especially frightening about Room 350 at the Standard Hotel on the Sunset Strip. It overlooks the pool, with colorful mod décor pleasantly bathed in bright window light. Inside, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher is prepared to discuss...
Tags: Entertainment, Jack Nicholson, Symbols and Symbolism, A Clockwork Orange (movie), 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
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Holocaust films get personal with descendants of Nazis
The Holocaust has long been a deep and disquieting source of material for filmmakers, especially documentarians. As firsthand accounts of World War II naturally dwindle, though, cinematic inquiries on the subject have been shifting into more personal...Tags: Israel, Religion and Belief, Judaism, Nazi Party, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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Reel Critics: 'Oblivion' a thinking man's thriller
Big-budget science-fiction movies are often vehicles for selling toys to kids and merchandise to adult fans. But there was a time when these films offered compelling visions of a strange future far beyond conventional thinking. "Forbidden Planet" in 1956,...
Tags: Max Thieriot, Andrea Riseborough, Paula Patton, Jonah Bobo, The Place Beyond the Pines (movie)
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Review: 'Bert Stern: Original Mad Man' doesn't give a full picture
Whether it's signing his photographs and his books, participating in a documentary or talking at all, Bert Stern can barely be bothered. Which is a flaw that "Bert Stern: Original Mad Man" never overcomes. It's not that Stern didn't take any memorable...Tags: Entertainment, Photography, Arts and Culture, Animation (Movie Genre), New York City
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‘Oblivion’ and Tom Cruise: A closer look at the Bubble Ship design
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThe U.S.S. Enterprise, the Millennium Falcon, the Nostromo — in the best science-fiction movies, the spaceship is an iconic character ...... -
‘Trance’: Danny Boyle won’t return to sci-fi, blames Kubrick
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesMovie directors often tell their actors to act small — you’re not in a theater, and the last row in ...... -
O Cinema's B-movie series is all about the schlock
In a lineup that includes movies about overgrown, murderous alligators on growth hormones and surrealistic re-creations of witchcraft and mental illness, can Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" be too mainstream? If you ask Kevin Bosch, the answer is yes....
Tags: Skype, Entertainment, Jack Nicholson, The Shining (movie), Movies
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