The Shining is a 1980 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name. Kubrick co-wrote the screenplay with novelist Diane Johnson. The film stars Jack Nicholson as tormented writer Jack Torrance, Shelley Duvall as his wife, Wendy, and Danny Lloyd as their son, Danny. References to The Shining are prominent in U.S. popular culture, particularly in movies, TV shows and other visual media, as well as music.

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Twenty-five years on from its release, A Clockwork Orange has lost none of its power to shock and outrage. In this near-future setting the outlets for teenage enthusiasm are few and far between. Disenchanted, youths form ritualistic gangs, fight battles and engage in vandalism. Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) is the leader of just such a group, marked out by their preferences for phallic masks and boiler suits. His select followers (known as droogs) are Dim (Warren Clark), Georgie (James Marcus) and Pete (Michael Tarn). On a typical evening they’ll stop by the Korova for some milk-plus, to sharpen them up, before venturing into the urban jungle. On this particular night they don’t have to travel far for a spot of “ultraviolence”; a rival gang are about to force a bit of the “old in-out” on a helpless young devotchka (girl). For the pure love of violence they decimate their rivals.

Such easy-pickings are unsatisfying though, as illustrated by their mechanical but vicious beating of an elderly tramp (Paul Farrell). Picking up a sleek looking Durango 95, Alex indulges in an extended game of road-hog along the country lanes and ends up by an isolated house. Unfortunately for writer Frank Alexander (Patrick Magee), this is to be the high-point of their night of terrorization. To the tune of “Singing in the Rain”, they brutally beat him and gang-rape his wife (Adrienne Corri), who later expires from her injuries. Finally satiated, it’s back to the Korova for a night-cap. A chance encounter happens to reveal Alex’s autocratic control of his comrades, though it seems that he is capable of assuaging any dissension.

The only drawback of this nocturnal pillaging is that it leaves Alex too exhausted to attend school. His parents are easily put off from asking too many awkward questions but Alex has less luck with his juvenile officer Mr. Deltoid (Aubrey Morris). He understands the malicious mind of Alex only too well, intuitively realising that he’s the sort of delinquent who considers himself untouchable. However, while this might hold true for the impotent forces of authority, the weak link in this logic are Alex’s droogs. They want more control, higher earnings and less picking on Dim, so Alex had better watch his step (else he’ll be sent down for a long time indeed).

This is an astounding piece of film-making which dazzles, disturbs and succeeds in achieving a very difficult result. By the end of A Clockwork Orange we are manipulated into cheering for Alex, despite his brutal and amoral nature. He is a victim at the mercy of an uncaring society, condemned to the physically unbearable “aversion therapy” and preyed upon by his former targets. By itself his treatment induces revulsion, but it’s as a reflection of the times (where the negation of personality is applauded) that this imagery strikes deepest. Anthony Burgess’ book cleverly indicts humanity and its herd instincts, but it’s only through Kubrick’s clarifying (and simplifying) adaptation that the true visceral horror bursts forth.

McDowell, as the mixed-up Alex, gives a gripping performance as both narrator and actor. The disparate sides of his character, the aesthete and the misanthrope, form an unwieldy balance. Every sign indicates that he should be crushed yet, inevitably, we care for him and snatch at the faintest glimmer of hope. When compared to such a strong central figure the remaining roles are destined to be somewhat in the shade, yet they are all convincingly drawn (though the victims are portrayed ambiguously). Mr. Alexander is eager to help (and use) young Alex, when he doesn’t know who he is, yet as soon as the realisation dawns, he’s happy to search for revenge at the same base level. Of course, the irony is that he wouldn’t be having these urges (wonderfully acted though they are) had chance not brought Alex and his droogs visiting in the first place.

The element which elevates A Clockwork Orange above similar films is its bizarre juxtaposition of music (often classical) with violence. Images and sound pull in different directions, stimulating conflicting emotions (as Kubrick no doubt intended). On top of this, the profusion of erotic symbols forms a not very subtle subtext, taking in everything from the objet d’art murder weapon to the feverish coupling of medical staff. Kubrick filters all of this through camera trickery (slow-motion, unusual angles, fish-eye lens etc), heightening rather than subduing emotion. It’s easy to see why A Clockwork Orange has divided critics – it’s extremely graphic and unsettling. However, this isn’t a movie which will change nations and for Kubrick to continue to ban the film in Britain is perverse, hypocritical and disappointing.

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Members of the American Federation of Labor, the Atlantic & Gulf Coast District of the Seafarers International Union commissioned budding filmmaker and magazine photographer Stanley Kubrick to direct this half-hour documentary. Originally released in October of 1953, this short was the director’s first film in color. More of an industrial film than a documentary, it basically served as a promotional tool to get sailors to join the union. Since then, it has been released on home video for curious fans of the director. In addition to directing, Kubrick was cinematographer and editor. Presumably, he took the job of making The Seafarers in order to finance his first feature film, Fear and Desire, which was released in the same year.

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Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the two together and they get involved with each other, which displeases Raphello. He sends men out to kill Davy, but they instead kill his friend. Gloria is soon kidnapped by Raphello and his men, and it is up to Davy to save her.

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Ex-convict Johnny Clay tells his girl friend, Fay, he has plans for making money, and indeed he has. He rounds up a gang and brings them in on a seemingly fool-proof scheme to rob a race track of $200,000. The first thread unravels when Sherry Peatty, wife of gang-member George Peatty, tells her boyfriend Val Cannon about the plan, and he cuts himself in on that action also. The robbery is completed and the gang goes to the hideout where Johnny will join them later. Val sticks up the robbers, a shot is fired, and all hands are soon dispatched. Johnny, with the money in a suitcase, joins Fay at the airport. And the fat lady still hasn’t sung.

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A ficticious war in an unidentified country provides the setting for this drama. Four soldiers survive the crash-landing of their plane to find themselves in a forest six miles behind enemy lines. The group, led by Lt. Corby, has a plan: They’ll make their way to a nearby river, build a raft, and then, under cover of night, float back to friendly territory. Their plans for getting back safely are sidetracked by a young woman who stumbles across them as they hide in the woods, and by the nearby presence of an enemy general who one member of the group is determined to kill.

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The Shining by Stanley Kubrick – that strange story in which a writer and his wife and young son with ESP stay in a mysterious hotel in low season – has been fascinating viewers since its release in 1980.
Simon Roy first saw the film when he was 10 and was mesmerized by a particular line: “How’d you like some ice cream, Doc?” He has since seen the movie at least 42 times, because “it encompasses the tragic symptoms of a deep-seated defect that has haunted [it] for generations.” The painstaking bond he has knitted with this story of evil has enabled him to absorb the disquieting traits of its “macabre lineage” and fully reveal its power over him. This is an unusual and astonishing book.

In this truly remarkable debut, Simon Roy has produced a highly original, unsettling, and fascinating account. This essay will appeal not only to Kubrick fans but also to readers who are attuned to life’s hardships and mindful of the strength needed to overcome them.

Praise for Kubrick Red:
“Such is the off-centre, episodic nature of this book that it’s hard to find parallels elsewhere in literature.” (Vancouver Sun)

Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Anvil Press (Nov. 23 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1772140724
ISBN-13: 978-1772140729

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