Review: The Shining
[Originally published in slightly different form in Movietone News 66-67, March 1981] Stephen Kingâ€s The Shining is basically a novel of character: Isolated with his family for a winter at a snowed-in...
View ArticleKubrick’s Shining
[originally published in Film Comment, July-August 1980] Camera comes in low over an immense Western lake, its destination apparently a small island at center that seems to consist of nothing but...
View Article‘Room 237’: Kubrick Scholars Go Wild!
It’s all in the design Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. So goes the quote so often attributed to Freud, but it’s hard to make that case for coincidence and happenstance in the films of Stanley...
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