I saw Marty the other week and it’s the direct opposite of the stylized Paddy Chayefsky I knew from Hospital and Network. It’s just the most pure little filmed play about an Ernest-Borgnine-esque honest face, played by Ernest Borgnine, finding an honest date after decades of rejection. It’s very sweet.
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Barry Lyndon is incredible Kubrick. It’s got this constant ironic mocking undertone to every immaculate shot and the absurdly lush costuming and set dressing. From the start you’re prepped to view the main character as a fool and a fraud but as it goes you realize he’s no less of a fraud than the entire aristocratic society he’s trying to claw into.
The mountains of cash used to make this movie makes it even funnier when you’re watching people with pounds of cake-makeup and fake moles pretend they care about each other as the movie indicts the whole thing just on its face.
It’d make a great pair with Death of Stalin and a plate of caustic food
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unbelievable that anyone has ever though ryan o’neal isn’t good in it, just unspeakably wrong
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Was starring in a Kubrick film good for any actor? It seems like his main characters all have a level of distance or loathing coming from the camera that put people off his actors
kirk douglas came out of spartacus pretty well
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i don’t know if the correlation means anything but both matthew modine and vincent d’onofrio did pretty well and fmj was both of their first movies
peter sellers must not have minded him that much
I mean… The Shining certainly didn’t hurt Jack Nicholson, did it?
nicholson was already super famous before the shining though!
vincent d’onofrio then
or malcolm mcdowell
they were both relative unknowns that became famous from their kubrick movies
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malcolm mcdowell became famous because of the fantasy island reboot and nobody can tell me otherwise
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not Tank Girl?
Maybe I’m over-extending from the deliberate casting of anonymous military-types in 2001 and the bumpy, staccato nature of film actors’ careers.
He sure made R. Lee Ermey’s career
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also alan cumming’s best performance remains his iconic cameo in eyes wide shut
I’m watching Rebels of the Neon God right now and it’s turning out to be the perfect remedy to quarantine malaise. Just watching delinquent teens wander around the busy city streets is such a balm.
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I mean that was really more Kirk’s film than Kubrick’s, so no surprise there
yeah I was mostly being facetious bringing up the most anti Kubrick Kubrick
although the apartment he escapes might get you real antsy
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Best soundtrack of all time
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barry lyndon is like the only kubrick movie i haven’t seen at this point and I should see it but i just never get around to it.
leonard rossiter
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