Stanley Kubrick On The Set of 2001: A Space Odyssey 

def one of the greatest directors of the 20th century.stew fmj crew.

Holding up? It´s better than any other SF film and my favorite of all time.

I just remembered, Tarkovsky's Solaris holds up very strongly I think

I think terminator 2 will also hold up after 50 years 🤔

@@ericfurst6091 Sorry, the original but not T2

You sound like an idiot

@@rudolphguarnacci197 Coming from someone with a reindeer's christian name....i think your the idiot.

@@stewartbloomfield8035 Hmm, throw in a little religion and mock a name. Brilliant. Took me a while to figure out what fmj stood for. I'm slow, too

@@rudolphguarnacci197 your name deserves to be made fun of. And f**k christianity

@@libertinemercenary8421 Live a long life, Mr. Libertine.

Def a genius. stew fmj crew.

At one point, Kubrick had his wardrobe down to nothing but black slacks, white shirts, and blue blazers. It saved him time wasted having to look through his closet and wondering what to wear. It's like deciding your closet will be nothing but black clothes. Stanley Kubrick: voted least likely to show up on the set wearing a Hawaiian shirt. 😏 Best wishes from Vermont 🍁

Stanley worked so hard even after our 13 hour days on fmj.stew fmj crew.

@HAL 9000 Just caught your message sure......and thank you....as i think you might know i am on twitter and facebook too. stew fmj crew.

@HAL 9000 Also to add Twitter and fb my name is Stewart Bloomfield thanks.

@HAL 9000 Again sure my email is fed@lawyer.com too.

There's a 1987 recently released 2 hr. interview with Kubrick, all audio, here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ehQf0LJVOHQ.html

lol I know what you mean. Instead he sounds very much like a new yorker.

you will turn mad if you don't leave some dull frame.

No offense intended, but dull frames are portals to Hell! Dull frames are vile, offensive, and hideous abominations - foul grotesqueries that pollute the soul of all who see them! Get thee behind me, Dull Frames! YARG! Or, maybe I'm just being fussy. It's hard to tell, sometimes . . . ;) Thumbs up to your comment, of course.

Kubrick wanted to keep under control everything on his movies, even the smallest frame.

He started his career as a photographer. He was very good and had a lot of technical knowledge before he ever used a motion picture camera. Anyone who has ever edited a film knows you have to make decisions about where to make your edits. Every frame matters because you SEE every frame - and you have to decide where every cut happens.

What kind of films do you make?

You're welcome!

a jewish prophet indeed.

truee

It blew ACC away, too. He described it as quite terrifying to watch in action.

Indeed Lawrence, I don't suppose there were 20 HSE bods standing just out of shot back in 68!

You do know Fred Astaire danced up a wall and on the ceiling years before on a revolving set in Hollywood. Practical sets and models had done amazing things since the teens. The audience eye was just harder and harder to fool and please, decade by decade.

This ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ffxKSjUwKdU.html takes it to the next level.

Wow.... Thanks for that. It's like Christopher Nolan made a music video! She aint bad either :-)

He's from the Brahnx!

David E, thanks. His directing was like buttah. The last true genius of cinema.

Sounds like Peter Sellers doing his Kubrick impression!

Marques Martinez it's called a director's "viewfinder" and it allows you to see what a specific camera shot or angle would look like without having to bring in a giant camera and set it up. Plenty of people like Kubrick, Spielberg, and Nolan use viewfinders to help them get a quick idea of how they want to frame shots before actually shooting the scene

And the only people on set allowed to look through it are the director, cinematographer and the production designer.

Or else you go to prison for 5 years.

Also, these viewfinders sometimes have filters in them (typically dark sepia or dark green) which make the scene appear monochromatic (no colour) which is a very good composition aid. Some directors (e.g. Fellini, Bunuel) seemed to use the filter-on-a-stick only, worn around the neck on a string. Others (e.g. Tarkovsky) used nothing except their own hands to frame a scene. It seems an individual thing, I used to have one (an Alan Gordon Mark V) but found it nearly useless. Different strokes etc.

This footage is from the Blu-ray extras of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The extras are called "2001: A Space Odyssey - What is out there?" and "2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future (1966)" and the interview with Kubrick at the premiere of 2001 can be found here: "ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bdKHuyhhyuM.html"

Thank you, i didnt knew that...what a extraordinary film. Take care.

Good luck with that.

Evolution

The meaning of life.

It is about the origins,and destiny of mankind.

From the story "The Sentential": a vastly intelligent society of non corporeal life has seeded life on Earth billions of years before and monitored/guided its evolution using The Monoliths. A tool for that purpose. Man eventually evolves to a space faring race and discovers their first Monolith on an excavation performed while constructing our first moon base in the 1990s (optimistic and based on Von Braun's predictions and speculation). While the big brass at NASA and the US government were studying it, the Monolith emitted a radio signal toward Jupiter. A mission to Jupiter, already planned, was redirected to study this top secret signal. HAL was reprogrammed for this secret mission. His original program!ming was to help the pilots and the survey scientists, in cryosleep (popular fad in fiction of the 60s). HAL went nuts as they approached Jupiter because he realized the pilots and scientists would find out about the secret radio signal and the hyper advanced aliens, but he was to keep it a secret. HAL decided to kill them all and perform the mission himself. Dave Bowman turned HAL off and proceeded with the mission. He flew into a monolith orbiting Jupiter with the flight pod and realized it was full of stars. The Monolith was a Star Gate to another place, galaxy, universe, take your pick. Long way away. Bowman ends up on an alien planet (last visuals of the light show sequence 9 minutes long) and experiences non linear time. He is at once old, young, an infant, dead, not born and living. The end until Clarke wrote 2010.

And what about Tarkovsky?

Needs to be seen in a really big theater. It will have a release this year in 70mm. Choose wisely. As you know, it was in Cinerama when it was first released. So, to compensate, sit about 10 rows back in the big theater near you. Reserve. It's not a perfect film. You might get restless. But it will transport you in more than one way. There's so much care put into it....1968. It simply obliterated everything before it.

Well said.

Great films are still being made, quite a few in 2018.

Still some genius today doing complex important films, Paul thomas anderson for example. But in general its gona backwards yes.

Same thing with pop/rock music. We've gone from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin to Doja Cat, H.E.R., and Dua Lupa. From Sgt. Pepper to whatever latest album/song is from those latter artists. FYI, I'm actually one of the few who liked Last Jedi. You wrote it before it came out, but Rise of Skywalker was much much worse. None of the new SW films are masterpieces.