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100 + Greatest Horror Movies (pt.6) 25-1

  Throughout the month of October, Editor-in-Chief and resident Horror expert Ricky D, will be posting a list of what he considers the greatest horror films of all time. The list will be posted in six...

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‘The Shining’ Rewards Attentive Rewatching

The Shining  Written by Diane Johnson and Stanley Kubrick based on the novel The Shining by Stephen King Directed by Stanley Kubrick USA 1980 imdb Quebec’s only documentary film festival, Rencontres...

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The Evolution of Stanley Kubrick, Guillermo del Toro and Jim Carrey

We’ve promoted some of Jeff Victor’s fabulous artwork before on our site. Here are some other great pieces showing the evolution of some of his favorite actors and directors. Jeff has set up an online...

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‘Room 237′, a documentary that takes a deeper look into ‘The Shining’,...

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is one of the most well-regarded directors of all time, having been the driving force behind numerous classics spread out over multiple genres. One of those is the 1980...

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Looking at Dinosaurs: ‘Jurassic Park’ and Its Powerful Hold on a Generation

I am not gifted with a photographic memory, barely able to recreate some point-specific day-in-the-life anecdote with impressive deftness. That, or I just don’t know how to create a believable lie...

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‘Room 237′ a fascinating exercise in the obsessive nature of the modern man

Room 237 Directed by Rodney Ascher USA, 2012 A blessing and curse of being human is that we grasp for meaning in all things. If something is not spelled out for us directly, we have to get to the...

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5 Surprising Personal Passion Projects of Legendary Directors

There’s something inherently lonely and tortured about being a director. Yes, you’re the tyrant of the set and dictator of the vision, but you’re also the man (or woman) behind the curtain, the puppet...

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2001: A Space Odyssey a dark visual essay on the failings of mankind

When it comes to film interpretation and finding madness in the method, it’s only a matter of time before an overly philosophical troll decides to take an almighty stab at the man whose portfolio is...

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‘Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles’ enthralling, insightful...

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles Directed by Jon Foy Written by Jon Foy & Colin Smith 2011 It’s quite reassuring that despite living in such a fast paced, busy and prioritized world...

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Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1970′s

Recent hot cinema topics such as the portrayal of the Mandarin character in Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 and speculations about what classic Star Trek villain Benedict Cumberbatch’s character in J.J...

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Star Trek, Star Wars & Avatar; Putting Sci-Fi Into Darkness

In almost everything, there is subtext, intentional or not. In the ‘not’ category is the significant black cloud coming with the silver lining of three massive developments in movieland this year....

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TIFF 2013: ‘The Last of Robin Hood’ is a heartbreaking Hollywood tale of...

The Last of Robin Hood Written by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland USA, 2013 The Last of Robin Hood depicts the last romance of Errol Flynn’s...

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Beautiful Poster for ‘The Shining’ by DirtyGreatPixels

The post Beautiful Poster for ‘The Shining’ by DirtyGreatPixels appeared first on Sound On Sight.

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31 Days of Horror: Jump Scares, Twists & A Genre in Decline

There’s a wonderfully maddening moment early on in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining where Danny Torrance is perusing the corridors of the Overlook hotel on his tricycle. He swings round corners, the...

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31 Days of Horror: 100 Greatest Horror Films:Top 10

Every year, we here at Sound On Sight celebrate the month of October with 31 Days of Horror; and every year, I update the list of my favourite horror films ever made. Last year, I released a list that...

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‘Full Metal Jacket’ Poster by Livia Lucie

The post ‘Full Metal Jacket’ Poster by Livia Lucie appeared first on Sound On Sight.

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Strange Interpretation: Why ‘The Shining’ is Subliminal Genius, Not Cryptic...

There is no other filmmaker who has attracted as much wild speculation and feverish discussion as the late, great Stanley Kubrick. Iconic, unique, celebrated, and the subject of wholesale apocryphal...

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Full Metal Jacket and Dr. Strangelove: Kubrick’s War

“It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else” – Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick’s...

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Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Napoleon’– What Might Have Been

    “It’s impossible to tell you what I’m going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.” – Stanley Kubrick, Oct. 20, 1971. There are few unrealized projects in the history...

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The Definitive Kubrickian Films: 40-31

As we spend a month looking at the great Stanley Kubrick, we can also look at the filmmakers who were clearly influenced by Kubrick. “Kubrickian” films tend to exercise incredible control of the...

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