Stanley Kubrick

[hearthesilence]

Kubrick has turned up in the Panama Papers. Not really controversial (it's not illegal and the companies are basically the names of his children, pretty transparent in its own way). Not really surprising either - just look at the way he made his films, more than any other director/producer, he maximized the value of every penny.

The film director Stanley Kubrick famously spent the last decades of his life as a semi-recluse in a grand 18th-century manor in Hertfordshire. It can be revealed that the house was transferred to offshore companies controlled by his daughters.

After Kubrick died in 1999, the ownership of the property passed to three companies registered in the British Virgin Islands, a move that could have saved the family hundreds of thousands of pounds in inheritance tax. The papers do not reveal if this occurred.

Documents from the Mossack Fonseca law firm reveal a complex network of offshore companies used by the family to own assets, including the profits from some of Kubrick’s films.

The film-maker bought the 18-bedroom Childwickbury Manor in 1978 and lived in it for the rest of his life. He used it as a base to work on films including The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut and Full Metal Jacket. He is buried in the grounds.

The house is now owned by Anya K Holdings Ltd, Vivian K Holdings Ltd and Katharina K Holdings Ltd. The companies’ names refer to his daughters Anya, who died in 2009, Vivian, and his stepdaughter Katharina.

The companies’ shares, in turn, are held by trusts on behalf of Kubrick’s children and grandchildren. American-born Kubrick moved to the UK in 1961 while making Lolita, after becoming concerned about crime in his home country and a dislike of Hollywood.

[Fiery Angel]

Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs at Museum of the City of New York

[domino harvey]

Lost Kubrick script Burning Secret discovered

[FrauBlucher]

That’s awesome. But please no Spielberg. I vote for PT Anderson. I’m sure directors will be lining up. Who’ll decide?

[dda1996a]

You say that like A.I isn't one of Spielberg's best movies

[mfunk9786]

That’s awesome. But please no Spielberg. I vote for PT Anderson. I’m sure directors will be lining up. Who’ll decide?

It's a Zweig adaptation, so maybe Wes Anderson will get a look?

[Cremildo]

You say that like A.I isn't one of Spielberg's best movies

Not only Spielberg's, but also Kubrick's.

An anti-Spielberg stance has always been prevalent here, though.

[FrauBlucher]

You say that like A.I isn't one of Spielberg's best movies

Is it? I'm not a fan of Speilberg and his in your face sentimentality. I thought A.I. was just OK. Some things I liked and some not so much.

The synopsis for the screenplay suggests it is not a fit for Spielberg IMHO. The story is too small.

[Lost Highway]

Also, Spielberg's is a director who has always been profoundly awkward around matters of sexuality so I doubt he'll be in the picture. His twee conception of Gigolo Joe is the only thing I have problems with in A.I., a film I otherwise think is a masterpiece.

[hearthesilence]

Surprised no one has posted this, but in Michael Ovitz's new book, he more or less takes credit for getting Kubrick to shelve his Holocaust film. (And for getting Scorsese to do Cape Fear and Spielberg to do Schindler's List.)

[dda1996a]

Apparently, according to Ovitz, Scorsese has a time machine and is such a cinephile he watches films years before they come out.

[movielocke]

Apparently, according to Ovitz, Scorsese has a time machine and is such a cinephile he watches films years before they come out.

Well obviously.

If Marty did not have a time machine how would he have rescued all the movies he’s rescued ?

Why do you think Zemeckis named the character Marty Mcfly, he knew even back then and paid homage.

The real question is why Marty hasn’t rescued Ambersons or four devils... or maybe he has and he isn’t sharing?

[dda1996a]

I bet he want to remake it with all the cut scenes in, but Ovitz will convince him to trade again as family dramas are so Spielberg

[Stefan Andersson]

Good notes by Michel Ciment on duels, doubles, masks and more:
http://www.cinematheque.fr/expositions- ... hp?lang=en

[Stefan Andersson]

Rare Kubrick docu. At approx. 50:27, Kubrick discusses the endings of 2001 and The Shining in a phone interview. Makes very straightforward explications of the two endings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVlXbS0SNqk

Mods: sorry if this has been linked to before.

[flyonthewall2983]

Filmworker is on Netflix. Vitali is a very good interview, and the peaks into how incredibly draining the job he had was is staggering to watch. His performance in Barry Lyndon is on the shortlist of my favorite performances from Kubrick films. The scene where he tells his mother he's leaving and finally says what he really thinks of Lyndon is a particularly cathartic scene for me, he just put so much into that speech it floored me all over again even in the context of this documentary.

[Skrmng Skll Th Thd]

I thought Filmworker was merely "OK." Wildly overpraised by Jeff Wells, one of those flicks he weirdly attaches himself to, probably in an act of vain self-projection. Netflix also has S Is for Stanley about Kubrick's driver Emilio D'Alessandro. I have yet to see it, but I can't imagine it's as predictable as Filmworker was.

[dustybooks]

D’Alessandro’s book about his time working for Kubrick is surprisingly charming, even touching, though I understand Kubrick’s stepdaughter Katharina was displeased with it.

[Skrmng Skll Th Thd]

D’Alessandro’s book about his time working for Kubrick is surprisingly charming, even touching, though I understand Kubrick’s stepdaughter Katharina was displeased with it.

Have you seen the doc based on it? I'm debating reading the book vs watching the doc, wondering how interchangeable they are.

[dustybooks]

Have you seen the doc based on it? I'm debating reading the book vs watching the doc, wondering how interchangeable they are.

I haven't. And just as a fair warning, the book is a relatively light affair -- you gain some insight into Kubrick's day-to-day life and manner, not so much his art.

[Stefan Andersson]

A scholarly article on Lolita and "Quilty as the Author":
https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/46_2/ ... uthor.html

[dwk]

WB is going to announce some Kubrick thing in a couple of days

[domino harvey]

WB and repackaging Kubrick films, name a more iconic duo

[DeprongMori]

WB is releasing the recently discovered and restored ‘lost’ Kubrick film Godzilla versus Napoleon.

[Toby Dammit]

WB is going to announce some Kubrick thing in a couple of days

With this new set could Criterion's Barry Lyndon and Dr Strangelove become OOP???????