Actually, Kubrick would sometimes do just 2 or 3 takes on various shots and then other times ask say, Tom Cruise to walk through a doorway 80 times. Cruise, and the rest of us, for 22 years (until now), not knowing why exactly.
@@markhirstwood4190 He was purposely torturing Cruise, because he thought he was a sexually repressed creep, who was using the people in Scientology, as an ego feeder, for his narcissism. There mystery solved. 🤣
Also interesting to remember his grades were so poor in school that he didnt even bother to try and go to college at all. He was obviously a genius and documented to have many passions and interests, he just didnt conform or fit in from a young age.
This clip of Stanley and Jan was captured in January 1983 in England when I was providing advice on using personal computers for script preparation. Stanley was very interested in the Sony portable camera.
Just a quick appreciation for upload. Cannot tell you how awesome it is to see Stan the man at home, very relaxed, chatting to your good self like old mates. There is nothing like this footage anywhere in the public space. Thank you.
Dark Lock He said a Fortune Computer which was the 32 bit computer running Unix in 1983. The vendor near Stanley was not very helpful so we went with a PC.
This is perhaps the best thing on RU-vid. This video encapsulates the untapped potential of RU-vid to preserve our society and pass on its lessons to newer generations. RIP Stanley
Garrett Schwindt I have been sitting on this tape for over 30 years and thought I should get it digitized and brought to the world. Stanley was like this during the hours of telephone calls we had.
@@alanbowker4892 Hi Alan, did Stanley discuss films and stories with you, or was it purely gadget based subjects? He never spoke in interviews very openly about *his reasons* for approaching stories the way he did. For example I wonder what Stanley's personal perspective was on Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle, that which inspired him to make Eyes Wide Shut. I know he'd phone other directors and actors and discuss openly. A complicated fella, no doubt.
@@deckofcards87 We talked for an hour or two a day by phone. The conversation would start with what wanted to do with computers and the preparation of his films. After that I would ask him questions about previous films. This was between The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. To capture the spirit of the relationship read Michael Herr’s book.
@@deckofcards87 Frederic Raphael, the scenarist of Eyes Wide Shut, has written a book (criticized by Kubrick's family) on their collaboration and work on the scenario of the film. It's called "Eyes Wide Open". I don't remember much of it (I read it something like 15 years ago^^).. but you may find some answers... EWS is a film Kubrick was considering making for several decades, in the 70s he was even thinking of doing it as an "erotic comedy", with Woody Allen as Bill Hardford... that could have been fun ^^! more recently, 3 scenarios written by Kubrick in the late 50s have been found. Titled “Married Man” “The Perfect Marriage” and “Jealousy” they were all studying the couple. it seems pretty obvious that the "couple" as a social pact between a man and a woman was something he was really interesting in, and wanting to question and challenge (Kubrick got married 3 times...).... And Schnitzler's novella has it all nailed down, in this Freudian context that Kubrick was so interested in as well.
+ losepoundsandinches and just who are you to judge, asswipe? best get back to losing pounds and inches by making yourself puke, chomping celery sticks, taking bullshit pills and hauling ass on the treadmill you fat fuck
The 1968 Playboy interview is the most intelligent I have ever read, even among dozens of interviews with the greatest scientists and philosophers I have read over many years.
@@Ofinfinitejest That playboy interview must've have been written in instead of done in person, I can't imagine anyone speaking that fluidly off the cuff.
I really wish Kubrick had been more prolific, especially in the 80's... it was too many years between films. How did he spend his days? Some of the memoirs of those who worked with him, the biographies... he was a scientist, a mathematician. How interesting that every film after like Spartacus was based on a novel - even to the point that he had the "novel" "commissioned" - eg. 2001 and Napoleon by Anthony Burgess... Kubrick's ability to recognize things that were way ahead of their time: Wendy Carlos and synths, Stephen King was not yet "mega" when Kubrick made "The Shining" - such an interesting man. His disdain for commercial flying is legendary - but is it true? He had a pilot's license? He *knew for real how dangerous flying is* and it was a "rational fear" based on *knowledge?* in other words... a Genius.
@@Ytsssss364 The secret is he *was* prolific, and he worked longer and harder than probably any other film-maker who's yet lived; Scorsese put it best when he said that watching one film by Kubrick is like watching ten films by another director (though my own estimate would be closer to fifteen or twenty). The two main problems later on were that it took him a long time (even constantly reading like a madman and employing several people around the globe to read novels for him and send him synopses) to find a story and source text that grabbed him enough to do, and that a considerable amount of his work went into films that didn't end up happening (the main ones later on being Aryan Papers ((which came within a hair's breadth of happening)) and A.I., as well as adaptations of Pinocchio and Eric Brighteyes, and a film about the battle of Monte Cassino). He read The Short-Timers only two years after The Shining came out, and it took him five years to make it into Full Metal Jacket. He started work on Aryan Papers in either 91 or 92 and Eyes Wide Shut in 94 and spent the rest of his life on it. He was more prolific than anyone; it's just his prolificness over his last six films went mostly into their sheer density and perfection. Spartacus wasn't really his film; he was just a hired director, but he jumped at it since doing a huge Hollywood movie would cement his reputation in the studios, which it did. But he wasn't happy with the movie at all and called it 'a bit silly'. He didn't comission a Napoleon script from Burgess, he wrote his own based on his gargantuan amounts of reading and research. He had a huge filing cabinet filled with index cards on which he'd written down the events of every day of Napoleon's life. What happened with him and flying is that at one point as a young pilot, he forgot some procedure involving the magneto and it nearly got him killed. I now also see that Wikipedia mentions 'an incident in the early 1950s when a colleague was killed in a plane crash. Kubrick had been sent the charred remains of his camera and notebooks which, according to Duncan, traumatized him for life.'
"Chip architecture"... "the most advanced operating system"... In 1983 Kubrick spoke in terminology we use in 2021. This guy had visions of the future I'm jealous of.
Interesting to see Stanley excited about this camera, 15 years after making 2001, a film that features conceptual technology only coming into realization today, almost half a century later. Fascinating clip.
At 00:34 Stanley begins a new sentence, "I ..." and I wish he would've finished his sentence because we rarely hear him address himself, especially in a casual setting, it is usually regarding his opinions on film, etc.
Seethe. Stanley moved to the UK to get away from Hollywood as he disliked how it was run and he was very open about who was running it. He was one of the good ones and very much /ourguy/. Cry about it if you must.
its so odd hearing his voice like that, i always imagined kurbick having a cold, montoned booming voice like christohper lee or tony jay. Yet he sounds like a guy i'd ask for help in an I.T. department...and i dont mean that as an insult
I kind of loved the 2017 version i loved the way the story was being told and basicly everything expect for one thing and its sadly a big thing and thats the Horror tactics, i disliked the CGI and jumpscares, the only scenes that got me were the begining and henry killing his father, the film needed more suspensful and slow burn horror scenes, Chapter Two was even worse
"Let's play it back" Classic Kubrick. He probably needed to adjust the lighting in the room, move the mug slightly, and make sure he was precisely in the frame.
@@muaddib5079 True! I would say Jonathan Glazer is far better I think that if Kubrick were still alive he would like all four of Glazer's films, especially The Zone of Interest
Yes, because it is different from the ones they use in filming films, such as the Panavision 70 and 60, which sound like a tank while moving, compared to this small one that Kubrick paid attention to in interview.
In my experience (working with him for 18 months from April 1979 to Nov 1980, Stanley was always polite, shy and playful (and when he was working/ concentrating, very quiet and serious). There was nothing fake about it. That was his natural manner.
Thank you for posting this Alan. The common assumption that's shared by many people today is that he was a recluse, and shy. This is a much warmer and fuzzier side of him that people never saw. Stanley died a few years after I was born, but he is one of my biggest inspirations not only as a filmmaker, but as someone who dedicated their life to their work.
As I was living in northern California and Stanley was in England, during most week days he would call and say, "Hello Alan, this is Stanley. Do you have a few minutes?" Of course I had time for him. The calls would last for an hour or two. They would range from what type of computer technology he should embark on to edit scripts to a wide range of topics that had nothing to do with technology. And yes he was a very normal guy. I always made time for him.
That's definitely the feel you get from him. He just wasn't very hollywood, which I'm sure the media couldn't stand. Would he often travel out of England for work?
This man was not only interested in but virtually an expert in computers, chess, literature, Napoleon, classical music, movies and who knows what else. Rarely do you see someone versed in both science and art like this, truly one of a kind
@@Pepespizzeria1 You really don't. Many are dedicated to one field and vaguely fond of the opposite, Kubrick was an aficionado in multiple. You are lying if you think you know anyone like that, let alone personally
@@villain7140 the term is polymath and you live a very sheltered life if you haven't, millions of them out there, you could be one too if you got off commenting on RU-vid and did something 😂
@@Pepespizzeria1 There are no "polymaths" in the world today let alone "millions out there" unless your standards for knowledge are truly miserable and utterly detached from the historical meaning of the word. Certainly not any in the top university of my country where I'm currently studying and as for your next comment I'm pretty satisfied with the knowledge that I have of art, literature, music, cinema, math and computer science so don't worry about me. But yeah you're right, people all around us are polymaths and intellectuals and I just don't know it becase my life is sheltered and everyone only acts like they're stupid 😂
@@villain7140 I'd change your university or subject then, I work in engineering and encounter lots of people with a diverse strength of intellectual abilities, speak languages, complex mathematics, well read, they're just not all on TV talking about it, how do you think we're messaging now, do you think your computer or phone grew on a tree? Do you have any idea about the philosophy, engineering, chemistry that goes into it, you are sheltered and should go out and talk to people instead of sitting in your room being miserable thinking you know things
@@alanbowker4892 It's just fantastic you caught his bashful charm. I'm surprised you had this gadget before he did - but then, he was at that point strictly a celluloid guy.
Ricardo F I can only imagine he'd be a kid-in-a-candy-store with Motion Capture & other digital breakthroughs, and totally addicted to smartphones and Google.
I wish matte paintings would come back. We can tell they're fake, but we can also tell that the video game looking "worlds" are super fake, so it's just a matter of what style one prefers.
That being said, seeing as he always tried to get as stable a frame as possible, shooting open matte since A Clockwork Orange, if he lived to see digital cinema cameras like the early Reds and Alexas reach the market he'd probably use them in his movies any day over film cameras.
Not too awkward. Getting the porta pak out of the bag while talking to Stanley and getting it set up and rolling while talking was the challenge. Stanley and Jan were very interesrted in the camera if I remember. I brought the camera feeling he might be interested in it. This was our first face to face meeting after three months of telephone conversations.
Oh my gosh, I think I like this clip even better than the other one! Now I understand: you're showing him this camera. And is that Jan Harlan?!!!! I didn't recognize him until I heard the voice! Wow, this is really a moment in time. Feeling a bit wistful and melancholy. Thank you for sharing this with us, Mr. Bowker.
FUCK, Alan, I can't believe I'm seeing this. I worshipped the air the man breathed in film school. In fact, I was doing my first student films when he passed in '99 and I lost my mind when I heard the news. Now you've given me hope about how much more candid stuff is out there that we've never seen that we NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED. If you've got any more hidden away somewhere, please get it out because I thought that I've seen it all.
PLEASE MORE!!! I know there’s got to be several hours of more footage because talking to Stanley about technology would usually be way into the sun coming up. What makes this film so funny but also cool is how Stanley speaks like he’s computer illiterate and going to pay a quarter million to have someone teach him. But yet he is talking the language of DOS and knows who Norton is? In 1983? I’m sure, these days you spent with him could be a total documentary itself. All this, considering how many people are so sure that he was completely anti-technology, which couldn’t be further from the truth.. I mean how cool is this ….you got to be one of the lucky victims who probably had to answer all phone calls at weird hours that were very long-windedbTypical Stanley phone calls? 😂😂I see you live in San Anselmo or did? Me too. Magical place I had the unique pleasure of spending the summer with Leon Vitali 2017 as I got him to the Traverse City Film Festival showing his film. It makes me sad how Stanley held him in such highest regards, and yet when Stanley died, that clan wouldn’t even give him the time of day. He definitely was at unusual person, but also one of the kindest you’ve ever meet. No exaggeration. Wow!,.so I’m sure you got to meet Leon as well? He was running around and sleeping maybe two hours most remind understand, sometimes on the floor in that room you’re filming in for decades from stand, and Stanley, trusted of final prints in the care of only Leon’s hands, which I can’t believe the pressure and the honor as well.🤚👁️👁️👁️✋ UNIX??? And 😂 the famous mischievous Stanley smirk? What was that about?
I am friends with an old friend of Stanley who needed some help in selecting software and a computer to replace Selectric typewriters in preparing shooting scripts. We talked by phony quite a bit and I traveled to England several times to talk him through selecting a vendor. It’s amazing what can be accomplished over 6,000 miles of phone line.
@@alanbowker4892 wow! That's so awesome! You got to experience an amazing part of cinema history first hand, and it's on film as well. Thanks for sharing the clip and taking the time to answer!
Ever since I was a kid I've loved his movies but I always wondered why he never did interviews. And it bothered me as I could admire his movies, but I never knew who he himself was. As a kid I thought he may be a psycho as I felt his movies were disturbing. When I got a little older I heard about all the conspiracy theories and believed them. But it is now I realise he was just simply a bit nerdy and introverted which makes him even more awesome as I can identify with him. Just because you are a famous director why would you naturally want to be in live interviews, where every word you say may be taken out of context and never forgotten.
He did do interviews, he did numerous radio and magazine interviews. Just not for television, as he was camera shy and conscious of his artistic reputation possibly being ruined if people didn't find him interesting in person.
He didn't so much mind interviews, a primary problem for him was being asked to explain his meanings in his films. The whole point of his art was that the audience had to figure out his meanings by watching the films and thinking about them. The 1968 Playboy interview is the most intelligent I have ever read, even among dozens of interviews with the greatest scientists and philosophers I have read over many years.
