More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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28 October (one added, 16 December)
‘The Shining’ (1980) bathrooms pic.twitter.com/0Cy3lJETsh
— Arthur K. Flam (@arthurkflam) October 24, 2019
The weakness in Kubrick's conception on that level becomes more and more palpable, causing apter resonances and reverberations to die swiftly away in the closing images (or even in presenting the material that they contain) - however much in the service of Stephen King's vision !— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 29, 2019
There is no comparison with the composure of the specific, then general drôlerie with which Michael Hordern's narrator concludes Barry Lyndon (1975).
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 29, 2019
Or the (albeit terrifying) gesture to close Brazil (1985), another film where fantasy and imagination enter / alter the everyday.
In both, what went before is enlightened, whereas moments that conclude a film called, after all, The Shining deaden or flatten its imagery.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 29, 2019
Or in the few paragraphs of Borges' stories 'El Sur' or 'El otro', or Pinter's Old Times, the past penetrates the present with a frisson.
If you check into a place called The Overlook Hotel for the winter, there might be a clue that, well, you might not have thought of every detail... ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 16, 2021
Post-script :
Somehow, since Monday, I appear to have got away with suggesting that Kubrick largely undid 'the good work' of the preceding 136 mins of The Shining in the last ten ;)
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 31, 2019
Cheers, Jim - as with Jack* (overly re-typing a version of Knots (1970), R. D. Laing's unlove-letter to love ?), I'm prone to introduce errors of meaning when I type ! ;)
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 31, 2019
* Unfair that Shelley Duvall has to be Wendy, whereas Jack (Nicholson) can be Jack, Danny (Lloyd) Danny ?
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
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