Tag Archives: Stanley Kubrick

“I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.” — György Ligeti

Posted on May 28, 2025 by sheila

György Ligeti – whose birthday it is today – was a classical composer, born in Romania, who lived in Hungary as a young adult, before fleeing Stalinist oppression to Austria. As he said in an interview much later, he lived … Continue reading →

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January/February/March 2021 Viewing Diary

Posted on April 11, 2021 by sheila

Better late than never. I moved at the end of January – a big interstate move – so I’ve been a bit, how you say, busy. Not too busy to keep up my viewing schedule but too busy to put … Continue reading →

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Year in Review: Running my mouth in 2020, Part 2

Posted on December 21, 2020 by sheila

Here’s part 1, a list of things I’ve written for other outlets. This list, then, is a hodge-podge of the things I’ve written here this year. Anyone familiar with this joint knows that I do tribute posts for people’s birthdays. … Continue reading →

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December 2019 Viewing Diary

Posted on January 1, 2020 by sheila

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019; d. Marielle Heller) This is a really good film. Thoughtful and deep. I love Marielle Heller’s work so much and so psyched to see whatever it is she chooses to do next. The … Continue reading →

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June 2016 Viewing Diary

Posted on July 1, 2016 by sheila

Homeland Season 3, Episode 4 “Game On” (2013; d. David Nutter) Hey, Nutter, what’s up? Thanks for the Supernatural pilot. Going on 12 seasons now, you set it up real good. I have now watched up until Season 5 of … Continue reading →

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Nothing Creepier Than a Creepy Kid: Creepy Kids in Cinema

Posted on January 25, 2012 by sheila

This article originally appeared on Capital New York. Hollywood loves scary children. The most haunting image in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is the Grady Twins, those dead-eyed girls in identical blue dresses standing at the end of the hallway. The … Continue reading →

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György Ligeti’s “Musica Ricercata” in Eyes Wide Shut

Posted on September 8, 2010 by sheila

I watched Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures last night. When he was a teenager, he was already becoming an accomplished photographer, with a dark room set up in his parents’ house. In 1945, when FDR died, he took the … Continue reading →

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“Heeeeere’s Sheila!”

Posted on December 7, 2009 by sheila

More Photoshop hilarity from Mark (you may recall his other work). I am spending the month of January on what will be a cold wintry wind-swept island in the Atlantic. It will be bleak, isolated, and awesome. I have a … Continue reading →

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Sergio Leone presents:

Posted on July 18, 2009 by sheila

Professor Serverus Snape’s Sorcerer-Tastic, Muggalicious Mid-Summer Movie Quiz. Long anticipated. Questions are awesome, thought-provoking (your SECOND favorite Francis Ford Coppola movie? Love it!) – and the answers are even better. I was unable to participate in the last two quizzes … Continue reading →

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The Shining: Book to Film Comparison

Posted on December 28, 2007 by sheila

An excellent analysis. I’m a huge Stephen King fan – but to my taste, the best adaptations of his books are: The Dead Zone, Stand By Me (adapted from Stephen King’s novella “The Body”) and The Shawshank Redemption (adapted from … Continue reading →

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