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Not sure if this has already been posted elsewhere, but Kubrick's Napoleon is to be resurrected in documentary form.

Saturnome wrote:A letter from Kubrick to Ingmar Bergman, 1960

Given his appreciation, I wonder if Kubrick ever considered casting Von Sydow in any of his films.

From the Eastman House website:

The Shining

(Stanley Kubrick, UK 1980, 142 min.)

An unstable writer (Jack Nicholson) takes a winter caretaking job at a snowed-in mountain lodge, quickly succumbs to “cabin fever” — or is it something far worse? — and terrorizes his hapless wife (Shelley Duvall) and creepy, psychic son (Danny Lloyd). A brilliant study of domestic abuse and possession — demonic, creative, and familial — this is Kubrick’s horror masterpiece as you’ve never seen it, complete with a chilling coda cut from the original release.

Screening October 22 & 23.

What.

Probably this.

There's some stills from that scene in Taschen's giant Kubrick book of Danny in his pyjamas and Wendy in bed. Halloran and the Overlook manager are also there.

Wow, I'd be amazed if after all this time we finally get to see the original ending.

I had assumed that footage was destroyed per the usual story of Kubrick getting rid of his trims and outtakes, but since the footage was physically removed from prints after they had been shipped, I suppose at least of few copies survived.

The idea that the footage was cut by projectionists confirms something I wondered about for years. I saw THE SHINING three times at the same cinema back in the summer of 1980. All three times, the image jittered at the beginning of the final dolly shot into the photograph. I thought perhaps it was an oddly-timed reel change, but I now see it was a less-than-perfect splice done by the projectionist at the Mai Kai Cinema in Livonia, MI!

Yale University has a print with the original ending that I've seen. It's interesting historically but taking it out was a wise choice.

Graham wrote:There's some stills from that scene in Taschen's giant Kubrick book of Danny in his pyjamas and Wendy in bed. Halloran and the Overlook manager are also there.

Wait a minute, what would Hallorann be doing in the hospital scene? Is Danny sensing his presence there as a ghost? I'm curious to see the scene, but it does sound like Kubrick was right to cut it.

Roger Ryan wrote:Wait a minute, what would Hallorann be doing in the hospital scene?

Don't worry, he's played in this scene by Hayden Christensen.

Animated Kubrick -- very nice, reminds me of the wonderful DVD menus on Criterion's Bergman film trilogy box set, still my favorite menu designs in the collection.

Roger Ryan wrote:

Graham wrote:There's some stills from that scene in Taschen's giant Kubrick book of Danny in his pyjamas and Wendy in bed. Halloran and the Overlook manager are also there.

Wait a minute, what would Hallorann be doing in the hospital scene? Is Danny sensing his presence there as a ghost? I'm curious to see the scene, but it does sound like Kubrick was right to cut it.

Halloran isn't there, of course, just Wendy, Danny and the Overlook manager...

Graham wrote:Halloran isn't there, of course, just Wendy, Danny and the Overlook manager...

Thank you for the clarification.

Of course, in King's original novel I believe Hallorann does return at the end since he meets a different fate than depicted in Kubrick's film.

albucat wrote:Yale University has a print with the original ending that I've seen. It's interesting historically but taking it out was a wise choice.

It's nice to know that at least one intact print still exists. Whenever I watch The Shining, I can't help trying to reconstruct the hospital scene as soon as I see Jack frozen in the maze. The immediate juxtaposition of "Midnight, the Stars, and You" with the Penderecki number always struck me as awkward and abrupt. A two-minute transition devoid of background music makes sense to me.

Like descriptions I've read of the Beatles' legendary "Carnival of Light", the mystique of the hospital scene may be far more interesting than the scene itself, but I would still jump at the chance to see it. It's an itch that I've simply got to scratch.

I can see your point regarding the abrupt transition of the soundtrack, but I like how the final cut juxtaposes two images of a frozen Jack: the first shot shows him literally frozen in the hedge maze and the second shot shows him frozen in time in the photograph.

The Eastman House has updated their listing for The Shining; there's no longer any mention of the cut ending.

Here's a great YouTube find: Terence Davies introduces 2001:A Space Odyssey for the BBC's Film Club in 1989.

Fear and Desire being shown during this spring's New Directors/New Films in NYC...listed as a Kino Lorber release.

When Kino were asked on Facebook regarding a DVD/Blu-Ray release they said "We will have more details soon!" Looks like it's finally getting a release!

I recently watched The Shining again for the first time in years, and confirmed my suspicion that the dancehall scenes in Killer’s Kiss seem to be an early form of the Gold Room scenes and the final shot of The Shining. In the thread on this forum for The Killing, I previously described the characters in the dancehall scenes in Killer’s Kiss as seeming to be “trapped in some sort of museum of loneliness,” eternally slow-dancing to a sad 20s dance tune. I can’t think of a better way to describe my impression of the residents of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. Maybe you could argue that Kubrick simply enjoyed depressing dance tunes from the 1920s, but it seems to me that he held a fascination with this idea of being frozen in time for all of the quarter century that passed between the two films. Maybe it's a bit of a stretch, but I'm curious to get someone else's take on the matter.

In a recent interview with Canal+, Stephen Spielberg revealed that he has been working with the Kubrick estate to develop the late director's dream project, Napoleon, as a television miniseries: The Playlist

Spielberg developing Napoleon as a miniseries

Not gonna draw any preconceptions about this until a director is named. I suppose it could be Spielberg himself but it doesn't seem quite the same fit as A.I.

Nick Wrigley's written a pair of Kubrick pieces for the BFI's website...

Stanley Kubrick, cinephile

and

The right-hand man: Jan Harlan on Stanley Kubrick