July 2012
37 posts
“‘I don’t know how many times they shot the blood in the elevator....”
– Actor Tony Burton, who played auto mechanic Larry Durkin in The Shining, quoted in Vincent LoBrutto’s book, Stanley Kubrick: A Biography.
“De Natura Sonoris #2”
Composed by...
Movie Geeks United continues their series of...
“‘For a person so charming and so likable - indeed lovable - he can do some...”
– Actress Shelley Duvall, discussing her experience filming The Shining in an interview with Vivian Kubrick for Vivian’s documentary on the making of the film.
“Masquerade” recorded in 1932 by Jack Hylton and...
“‘I do not want to give any rationalizing explanation of this story. I prefer to...”
– Stanley Kubrick, discussing The Shining with film critic Michel Ciment in 1980.
Kubrick’s use of music in The Shining has been often discussed and analyzed, but never with the depth provided by Dr. Jeremy Barham’s essay, “Incorporating Monsters: Music as Context, Character, and Construction in...
“I knew that I was inside a very big room but every other sense told me I was...”
– Actor Anthony Daniels, who played “C-3PO” in the Star Wars films, describing the day he snuck onto the set of The Shining. Daniels’ dressing room for The Empire Strikes Back was across the hall from the entrance to one of the sound stages used by The Shining. After sneaking in one...
