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Saul Bass: American flair, Soviet aesthetics, with a Brubeck beat
Google paid animated homage Wednesday to iconic designer and artist Saul Bass with one of its more lively Doodles. To mark what would have been the movie title designer’s 93rd birthday, the Google cartoon recaps several of Bass’ films...
Tags: North by Northwest (movie), Dave Brubeck, Philosophy, Otto Preminger, Religion and Belief
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"2001: A Space Odyssey" Showing at Avon Theatre Film Center in Stamford
2001: A Space Odyssey may be the most epic movie of all time, a dated but romantic vision of the future directed by the great Stanley Kubrick in 1968. Signs of extraterrestrial intelligence are discovered, and astronauts are sent on a secret mission to...
Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Arts and Culture, Stamford
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Words, images, music, courtesy of Bert Stern
The soul-filling and gorgeous concert film "Jazz on a Summer's Day," shot during the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, started out as something else — a fiction feature, with jazz and Newport, R.I., as the backdrops, according to photographer and...Tags: Music, Movies, Arts, Entertainment, Lindsay Lohan
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Digging deep into 'The Shining'
There is nothing especially frightening about Room 350 at the Standard Hotel on the Sunset Strip. It overlooks the pool, with colorful mod décor pleasantly bathed in bright window light. Inside, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher is prepared to discuss...
Tags: Movies, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Room 237 (movie), 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Entertainment
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Holocaust films get personal with descendants of Nazis
The Holocaust has long been a deep and disquieting source of material for filmmakers, especially documentarians. As firsthand accounts of World War II naturally dwindle, though, cinematic inquiries on the subject have been shifting into more personal...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Movies, Entertainment, Religion and Belief, Festive Events
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Reel Critics: 'Oblivion' a thinking man's thriller
Big-budget science-fiction movies are often vehicles for selling toys to kids and merchandise to adult fans. But there was a time when these films offered compelling visions of a strange future far beyond conventional thinking. "Forbidden Planet" in 1956,...
Tags: Disconnect (movie), Oblivion (movie), Max Thieriot, Science Fiction (Movie Genre), Bradley Cooper
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Review: 'Bert Stern: Original Mad Man' doesn't give a full picture
Whether it's signing his photographs and his books, participating in a documentary or talking at all, Bert Stern can barely be bothered. Which is a flaw that "Bert Stern: Original Mad Man" never overcomes. It's not that Stern didn't take any memorable...
Tags: Arts, Movies, Entertainment, New York City, Animation (Movie Genre)
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‘Oblivion’ and Tom Cruise: A closer look at the Bubble Ship design
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThe U.S.S. Enterprise, the Millennium Falcon, the Nostromo — in the best science-fiction movies, the spaceship is an iconic character ...... -
‘Trance’: Danny Boyle won’t return to sci-fi, blames Kubrick
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesMovie directors often tell their actors to act small — you’re not in a theater, and the last row in ...... -
O Cinema's B-movie series is all about the schlock
In a lineup that includes movies about overgrown, murderous alligators on growth hormones and surrealistic re-creations of witchcraft and mental illness, can Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" be too mainstream? If you ask Kevin Bosch, the answer is yes....
Tags: Movies, Room 237 (movie), Entertainment, Jack Nicholson, Skype
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'Shining' students dissect object of their obsession in 'Room 237' ★★★
We are nothing without our obsessions, and Rodney Ascher's "This American Life"-ish documentary "Room 237" intertwines the obsessive, often risible theories of five very big fans of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." Take it one of two ways. One: It's a...
Tags: Movies, Room 237 (movie), Baking Powder, Entertainment, Jack Nicholson
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The man behind the people who know the story behind 'The Shining'
You know the Calumet Baking Powder cans in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"? You know — the Calumet Baking cans? Lining the pantry of the film's Overlook Hotel? No, no: The baking cans behind all the carnage! Right, those baking cans. What's that,...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Room 237 (movie), Movies, Entertainment, Sundance Film Festival
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