Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 11, 2018 · Leave a Comment
“I want to work for that man” When studios gave Leon Vitali a hard time about requests made on behalf of Stanley Kubrick, the director would tell him to stand firm and be exacting. Vitali relays a story within Tony Zierra‘s documentary Filmworker of Kubrick faxing these places his demands with Leon’s signature so they […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 20, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Fidelio” Would you gamble everything for lust? Is thinking about infidelity as egregious an offence as the act itself? After all, faithfulness isn’t merely a construct of the physical world—our trust and respect goes beyond the exterior into the very fibers of our being to make the words “I’d never cheat on you” flow effortlessly […]
Category drama, film reviews, holiday, suspense/thriller · Tags Arthur Schnitzler, Eyes Wide Shut, Frederic Raphael, Julienne Davis, Leelee Sobieski, Marie Richardson, Nicole Kidman, Rade Serbedzija, Sky du Mont, Stanley Kubrick, Sydney Pollack, Todd Field, Tom Cruise, Traumnovelle, Vinessa Shaw
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 16, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“There wasn’t a lot of certainty as to what it would be” Everybody knows Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher. When Disney bought Lucasfilm from George Lucas and announced they’d be producing a new Star Wars trilogy and spin-off features, everyone knew those three would be back in the fold. Even guys like Peter […]
Category documentary, film reviews · Tags A Clockwork Orange, Alec Guinness, Angus MacInnes, Anthony Daniels, Anthony Forrest, Carrie Fisher, Christopher Reeve, David Prowse, Derek Lyons, Elstree 1976, Garrick Hagon, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Bulloch, John Chapman, Jon Spira, Kenny Baker, Laurie Goode, Mark Hamill, Pam Rose, Paul Blake, Peter Mayhew, Stanley Kubrick, Star Wars, Superman
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 28, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Rafts always float” I love that legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick began his career with a dud so misguided he was rumored to have tried to destroy every print in existence. In his words it was a “bumbling amateur film exercise” and he’s not wrong. But that isn’t necessarily a bad thing considering he was a […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller, war · Tags Battleship Potemkin, David Allen, Fear and Desire, Frank Silvera, Howard Sackler, Joseph Burstyn, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Sergei Eisenstein, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Coit, The Twilight Zone, Virginia Leith
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 13, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“I think he’s lost his focus” As soon as the voice of Tom Hiddleston‘s Dr. Robert Laing was heard speaking narration above his weathered and crazed visage manically moving from cluttered, dirty room to darkened feverish corner, my mind started racing. Terry Gilliam‘s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas popped into my consciousness and then […]
Category comedy, drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, science fiction, toronto international film festival, z.slideshow · Tags A Field in England, ABBA, Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley, Brazil, Dan Renton Skinner, Elisabeth Moss, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, High-Rise, J.G. Ballard, James Purefoy, Jeremy Irons, Keeley Hawes, Kill List, Louis Suc, Luke Evans, Portishead, Sienna Guillory, Sienna Miller, Snowpiercer, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, TIFF, Tom Hiddleston, Toronto International Film Festival, Waydowntown
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 25, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“The insides serve no purpose” This is what it’s like to go insane. Writer/director Quentin Dupieux loves the surreal and absurd, but Réalité [Reality] takes his penchant for humorous oddity to another level. With Philip Glass‘ “Music with Changing Parts” boring a hole into your temple and fluid sequences of characters meeting in real time […]
Category comedy, film reviews, foreign · Tags Alain Chabat, Élodie Bouchez, Eric Wareheim, French, Jack Nicholson, John Glover, Jon Heder, Jonathan Lambert, Kyla Kenedy, Philip Glass, Quentin Dupieux, Réalité, Reality, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“No time for the old in-out, love, I’ve just come to read the meter.” It didn’t take long for the theatrical experience to prove essential when watching A Clockwork Orange on the big screen. As Henry Purcell‘s March from “Funeral Music for Queen Mary” plays, the frame is filled with a solid bright orange so […]
Category drama, film reviews, science fiction, z.slideshow · Tags A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, Anthony Sharp, Aubrey Morris, Carl Duering, Divergent, Goffrey Quigley, Henry Purcell, Her, Ludwig van Beethoven, Malcolm McDowell, Michel Ciment, Patrick Magee, Stanley Kubrick, The Hunger Games
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“The Now Explosion” Everyone’s aware of Studio 54’s reign as nightclub supreme from 1977-1981: its sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll. But what about the 80s? I’m not saying I should know the “It” club of the decade I was born, but it’s interesting that an era of excess, fashion, and eccentricity doesn’t possess a […]
Category documentary, film reviews · Tags A Clockwork Orange, Craig DePoi, Dr. Charles S. Grob, Full Metal Jacket, Joseph F. Alexandre, Mina Chow, Paula Hines, Philippe Starck, Prince, R. Lee Ermy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rob Lowe, RoboCop, Scott Simerly Jr., Stanley Kubrick, Todd Allen, Warriors of the Discotheque
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment
If you haven’t already subscribed to kogonada‘s fantastic cinema-centric Vimeo channel, this is your chance. The artist has been active since 2012 and has already done a piece about Stanley Kubrick‘s use of one-point perspective, but it’s his dissection of Wes Anderson‘s symmetry entitled Wes Anderson // Centered that had the internets abuzz. Check it […]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“Tragedy is the unavoidable” While you wouldn’t usually believe something could possibly become more controversial than its own distinction of being a three-hour NC-17 film about a fifteen-year old girl searching for her sexuality and the resulting love shaping her trajectory towards adulthood, talk during La vie d’Adèle’s [Blue Is the Warmest Color] festival tour […]
Category drama, film reviews, romance, z.slideshow · Tags Abdellatif Kechiche, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Benjamin Siksou, Blue Is the Warmest Color, French, Ghalia Lacroix, Jérémie Laheurte, Julie Maroh, La vie d'Adèle, Lars von Trier, Léa Seydoux, Mona Walravens, Salim Kechiouche, Sandor Funtek, Stanley Kubrick
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill […]
Category film features, posterized propaganda · Tags 21 & Over, Abigail Breslin, Alice and Wonderland, Andrew Niccol, ARSONAL, Art Machine A Trailer Park Company, Bemis Balkind, Beyond the Hills, BLT Communications LLC, Bryan Singer, Chan-wook Park, Cold Open, Dwayne Johnson, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ellen Page, Empire Design, From Up on Poppy Hill, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Halle Berry, Hayao Miyazaki, Head Over Heels, Heroes, Iconisus L&Y - Visual Communication Systems, Ignition Print, Inception, Independence Day, Jack Plotnick, Jack the Giant Slayer, James Franco, Jim Carrey, Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Le Cercle Noir, Leviathan, Matthew Goode, Mia Wasikowska, Midnight Oil Creative, Morgan Freeman, Nicholas Hoult, Nicole Kidman, Olivia Wilde, Olympus Has Fallen, Oz the Great and Powerful, Prison Break, Project X, Quentin Dupieux, Room 237, Ryan Gosling, Siegfried and Roy, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Spring Breakers, Stanley Kubrick, Stephenie Meyer, Steve Buscemi, Steve Carell, Stoker, The ABCs of Death, The Call, The Cimarron Group, The Croods, The Hangover, The Host, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, The Lion King, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Refinery, The Secret World of Arrietty, The Shining, Upside Down, Wentworth Miller, WORKS ADV, Wrong, X-Men 2
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