Posted on 08/15/2019 1:45:47 PM PDT by C19fan
The Stanley Kubrick exhibition at London’s Design Museum examines the making of every one of the extraordinary director’s films. But its opening section is devoted to a film he didn’t make: a biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte. As odd as that might seem, Kubrick fans are almost as fixated on Napoleon – to use its working title – as they are on anything else in his awe-inspiring canon. Critics regularly hail it as the greatest and most tantalising unfinished film of all. Besides, the story of how Napoleon was nearly-but-not-quite made exemplifies Kubrick’s sky-high ambition, his ravenous intellectual curiosity and his obsessive planning. “We put the display upfront because it’s a beautiful illustration of his process,” says Adrienne Groen, the co-curator of the Design Museum’s exhibition. “You can see his methods, and the amount of material he gathered before he even started.
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Sounds like a movie about the 1964 presidential election.
Dr Strangelove was made. This is about the greatest movie NEVER made. And that honor goes to "Porky's Revenge II, the Revenging!"
as my wife would say, “as opposed to a dead one?”
I guess the theater in Sacramento couldn’t come up with one. We had some orchestra music but recorded. Now I wonder if it was the music used back in the day.
thanx
The greatest movie never made is Mrs. Clinton Goes To Prison.
Godfather IV with Andy Garcia continuing from III and Leonardo DiCaprio as the young sonny interspersed with the story of the current day. Coppola took a pass.
Star Warts The Last episode.
History of the World, The Rest of the Story.
Good-bye Mr. Bond. Finally.
Stay Away Shane
Die Hard Already
Batman Retires
Squash of The Spiderman
The Suicide of Indiana Jones
Never Bourne
I don’t know about the greatest movie never made, but we got Barry Lyndon out of the deal, and I’m happy with that. That’s my favorite Kubrick film.
The movie adaptation of the novel “Lolita” was a successful film, but it completely missed getting Nobokov’s psychological story into the film. He made a huge mistake allowing Peter Sellers to help him rewrite most of the screenplay written by Nobokov himself. Peter sellers wrote his own character into scenes that did nothing much for the story and just gave himself more screen time. Scenes and characters that weren’t even a part of the original novel at all. It could have been a great film without Peter Sellers involvement. Sellers came off as quite the camera hog for that one. Just my opinion about one of Kubrick’s films.
And if you think you shouldn’t read a novel like “Lolita” then you don’t really know enough about that book.
David Lean’s Nostromo...
Script problems.
I read one of the drafts.
Dud.
Do the chickens have large talons? I found a Shoshone arrowhead in that pig pen over there. Forgot my checkbook. Hope you don’t mind if I pay you in change.
Hal Needham’s Megaforce.
***”Waterloo”, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk,***
Got on DVD! Saw it back in 1971. Excellent movie!
Bondrchuk’s WAR AND PEACE is also a MUST SEE! I have the wide screen Russian Cinema Counsel version. The Kultur version is pan and scan, cut for TV, and a faded film.
I saw that Criterion now has a high def release of this movie.
The 1927 French version of NAPOLEON is on it’s way to me.
I agree. Robert Osborn agreed. Sellers ruined the movie.
“The greatest movie never made is Mrs. Clinton Goes To Prison.”
Another is “goes to the white house as president.”
Prison may still be in the works. President is not unless everyone dies in the country. And she has so little time to do that.
rwood
On a side note... The last chapter or two of that book was some of the best story telling I have ever read.
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