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Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly  I've never been a fan of Kubrick but something clicked in my head the other night when I caught 10 minutes of "The Shining" on telly and I thought to myself, now I get it. I can't tell you what "it" is but all the problems I've had with Kubrick suddenly seemed to dissolved. So I picked these up on impulse on my way home from work with a couple of other films. |
The real beauty, a revelation for me, was Barry Lyndon. I'd never seen it previously, thinking it would be a period costume, drawing room type bore - I couldn't have be more wrong , it's compulsive, tragic and unique. Kubrick manages to make the distant past, with its weird costumes and make-ups as alien as anything in 2001. As for the music and visual images - simply unparalleled, I would say.