The Shining (1980) : The #UCFF Tweets

The Shining (1980) : The #UCFF Tweets

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) : The #UCFF Tweets

‘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).

Or the (albeit terrifying) gesture to close Brazil (1985), another film where fantasy and imagination enter / alter the everyday.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 29, 2019

In both, what went before is enlightened, whereas moments that conclude a film called, after all, The Shining deaden or flatten its imagery.

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.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 29, 2019

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 ! ;)

* Unfair that Shelley Duvall has to be Wendy, whereas Jack (Nicholson) can be Jack, Danny (Lloyd) Danny ?

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 31, 2019

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Three Tweets [maybe more ?] about Woman at War (2018)

Three Tweets [maybe more ?] about Woman at War (Kona fer í stríð) (2018)

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16 May

Three Tweets [maybe more ?] about Woman at War (Kona fer í stríð) (2018)

A film that leaves #UCFF in need of a @Laphroaig - #womanatwarfilm - does not necessarily do so in a good way :

Not least during #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, it isn't - properly understood - 'Hilarious and heartwarming' at all [as, one sees, @vulture appears to have described it] pic.twitter.com/k1dYzc9Dyz

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 16, 2019

A publicity poster for a paperback edition of Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life - which had only been photographed for the purposes of ironically critiquing yet more fostering of the illusion of individualism (no better than many a cult ?) - now proves apt for other reasons. pic.twitter.com/MNpqA6y8Cd

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 16, 2019

Superficially similar to Rams (Hrútar) (2015), with its sororial element / rootedness in the Icelandic landscape, this film mixes the mayhem that comes from mistaking who Roger O. Thornhill is with the dual identities of Salt (2010) and comes up with something disturbingly dark.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 19, 2019

Postlude (with TAKE ONE) :

Meanwhile, over at https://t.co/mu8pD8p7oe, a discussion at @TAKEONECinema !

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 21, 2019

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