Stanley Kubrick

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Re: Stanley Kubrick

#401 Post by hearthesilence » Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:42 pm

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.


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Re: Stanley Kubrick

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#404 Post by FrauBlucher » Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:39 am

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

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#405 Post by dda1996a » Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:34 pm

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

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#406 Post by mfunk9786 » Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:45 pm

FrauBlucher wrote:
Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:39 am
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?

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Re: Stanley Kubrick

#407 Post by Cremildo » Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:53 pm

dda1996a wrote:
Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:34 pm
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.

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#408 Post by FrauBlucher » Sun Jul 15, 2018 1:13 pm

dda1996a wrote:
Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:34 pm
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.

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#409 Post by Lost Highway » Sun Jul 15, 2018 1:21 pm

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.


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Re: Stanley Kubrick

#411 Post by dda1996a » Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:26 pm

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

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#412 Post by movielocke » Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:37 pm

dda1996a wrote: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?

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Re: Stanley Kubrick

#413 Post by dda1996a » Fri Sep 21, 2018 4:26 am

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

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#414 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sat Sep 22, 2018 10:46 am

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

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#415 Post by Stefan Andersson » Fri Nov 02, 2018 5:01 pm

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

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#416 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Mon Dec 17, 2018 5:30 pm

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.

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#417 Post by Skrmng Skll Th Thd » Mon Dec 17, 2018 10:51 pm

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.

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#418 Post by dustybooks » Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:48 pm

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.

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#419 Post by Skrmng Skll Th Thd » Tue Dec 18, 2018 12:22 am

dustybooks wrote:
Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:48 pm
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.

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Re: Stanley Kubrick

#420 Post by dustybooks » Tue Dec 18, 2018 12:38 am

Skrmng Skll Th Thd wrote:
Tue Dec 18, 2018 12:22 am
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.

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Re: Stanley Kubrick

#421 Post by Stefan Andersson » Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:56 am

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


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#423 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jul 23, 2019 3:24 pm

WB and repackaging Kubrick films, name a more iconic duo

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#424 Post by DeprongMori » Tue Jul 23, 2019 3:27 pm

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

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#425 Post by Toby Dammit » Tue Jul 23, 2019 3:38 pm


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

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