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Journalist Jon Ronson was invited, more or less out of the blue, to visit the Stanley Kubrick archive at the filmmaker's home in Childwick Bury, outside of London. In today's edition of The Guardian, he describes what he found. His favorite typeface? Futura Extra Bold. Sillyest lawsuit? Against the makers of TV series Space 1999. Most-researched project? Probably Napoleon, which never got made. And if you ever sent the man a fan letter over the years, chances are it's meticulously filed to this day under "positive," "negative" or "crazy."
I'm not a huge Kubrick fanboy, I swear. But I certainly respect his achievement, and a story like this is fascinating for the glimpse it offers into the daily routine and mindset of eccentric, solitary genius. Those-wacky-filmmakers yarns do get a little stale, but this is a fairly good one.
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It's really quite strange that Kubrick wasn't an animator.
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Hey, Bryant, check this out:
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Well, holy crap. I had heard rumblings that Gun Crazy was on the way (incidentally, I once got an email about my review from Joseph H. Lewis's daughter, which was quite a thrill), but I didn't realize that it was going to be packaged with the also insanely great Out of the Past. I mean, what a treat. And if you're considering shelling out $20 each for just those two films -- or whichever two happen to be your favorites -- you might as well throw in the extra $10 and get three more. I haven't seen The Asphalt Jungle or The Set-Up, which makes this a particularly sweet deal.
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