Posted on 12/22/2022 3:38:52 PM PST by simpson96
When he made Barry Lyndon in 1975, Kubrick shot with two ultra-rare Carl Zeiss prime lenses, which had been created for NASA for use in the Apollo space program and were modified for Kubrick to use with a Mitchell BNC camera (which was also specially modified to accept the lenses).
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The first film to understand 18th century cosmetics (and earlier ages, too) - and how the face would just recede in candlelight without white lead (ceruse), rouge, beauty spots, mouse skin eyebrows and the like. A non-made up face, for men and women, and you would simply not appear present in a room so poorly lit. As much as I love Dangerous Liaisons and Amadeus, they could not convey the artificiality of people’s faces at that time, purely because the interior scenes they showed were far more brightly lit than they would have been.
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Noctiluxious!
Fascinating!
Kubrick always brought something
Special.
It is one of my all time favorites.
There are certain films which only become truly appreciated decades after they’ve been made and released. Kubrick directed about a half dozen of them.
All I remember about this film, was a Mad Magazine satire called, Barry Boredom, no disrepsect.
I saw that movie in the theater when it was released. Loved it so much I bought the soundtrack, and have it on a USB stick to play in my car.
I remember that and other Mad Magazine parodies of films and TV shows - that was one of my favorite parts. I remember they did a parody of “Jaws” and several parodies of the original Star Trek show. I think when I was 12-15 I got just about every issue when it came out.
I learned Greek Mythology from Mad Magazine.
Cultural literacy through entertainment was at one time the norm! Warner Bros. cartoons from the 1950’s are another great example.
Cultural literacy through entertainment was at one time the norm! Warner Bros. cartoons from the 1950’s are another great example.
How right you are!
Felix Mendelssohn's Spring Song in the Ralph the Sheepdog cartoons
I remember a parody, “Butch Casualty and the Sum Dunce Kid”. I don’t remember if it was MAD, CRACKED or SICK magazine. I do remember that the waiter serving them was....Adolf Hitler, who was rumored to have fled to South America at the time.
Barry Lyndon—sounds like a movie about the presidential election of 1964.
I remember the critics of those years calling it a very boring movie. Yet they admitted each frame was a superb artist composition and could stand by themselves as an art picture.
It is superb! I like it!
‘Singing in the Rain’ along with the
Classical in “Clockwork Orange” enhanced
My appreciation for Music!
.
Boom 💥 Boom 💥!
LOL - that was MAD. My dad had a subscription and he’d give the issues to us kids after he’d read them each month. I remember that one for some reason.
201 minutes of a Space Idiocy
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