Stanley Kubrick Archive Puns

Has anyone here bought it!? I found it on Amazon at a reasonable price and I want to buy it soon. But I didn't get enough specifics or reviews as to what the book contains and how one should perceive it in a sense that is it a of unreleased information and material or is it just a compilation of a bunch of articles on Kubrick all throughout his year? Any lead would be of great help. I really want to buy the book but I am also looking forward to anticipate it in the first place. Thank you.

I’m sure to most in here they are very familiar with the archives. Excuse my excitement as someone just beginning the journey of exploring film beyond an average movie goer. I live stateside and only found out about the archive recently, and that there was a US tour…however the NYC tour version just ended :( I checked the university site and they say the archives are only open to students… I may be traveling to London in the near future. Wondering if anyone knows of any work-arounds?

I will be visiting the Stanley Kubrick archives in The University of The Arts London, hopefully in February. It's a huge place, and I don't have a whole day to dig through it.

I feel like if I go in blind, I won't be able to find anything note worthy because there is so much. A lot seems to be pages of beauracratic paperwork, and to be honest I couldn't care less about physically seeing them.

An example of what I want to see is: the first photocopy of 'The Shining' novel Kubrick took his own notes down on. There is alternative artwork for A Clockwork Orange in there too! That kind of stuff.

So what do you recommend I look for first? And if you have any information on what it is like in the archives and the best way to navigate around it? That would also be amazing!

Thanks very much

Edit: I am booked in for February 15th and will be definitely focusing some attention on the shining. So if anyone has anything specific, in terms of this movie also!

Does anyone know the difference between the 20 dollar and 70 dollar versions of the archives? Also, does anyone know if they still sell the Napoleon book and what are some recommended merch/stuff about Kubrick that is really good similar to the sheer effort of these books?

I've recently purchased the Stanley Kubrick Archives and The Wes Anderson Collection and absolutely love to see the script notes, BTS photos and grabs from the films. Does anyone know any publications that produce quality books on films that are similar to these?

Also interested in books like Hithcock/Truffaut, Godard on Godard, Tarkovsky Sculpting in Time, and The Conversations: Walter Murch

I recently watched Barry Lyndon, and it has now become my favorite first time experience ever. I can't stop thinking about it. First of all, it's gorgeous. Every frame is literally a painting. Secondly, I felt more connected to it, more than any of his other films. I've only seen 5 of em. This, 2001, Clockwork, Fullmetal, and the shining. All of the others feel somewhat detached from reality. The shining being the only one coming as close as Barry Lyndon to not being that. Barry Lyndon is kind of an average dude, experiencing somewhat extraordinary circumstances. There are elements/themes of fatherhood, aspirations and other similar stuff that you can connect with. Although it does have a lot of characters and storylines, it didn't feel confusing at any point. Also, I didn't feel bored at any moment for its entire 3hr duration. It has become my favorite Kubrick movie, but I also say that after watching each one of em lol.

This is the version that's been available for some time: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/3836508893/

And this is the new version (Amazon puts its release date at next year but a few other sites show a May 25th release): http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Kubrick-Archives-Alison-Castle/dp/3836555824

Little is known of this new version, except that it's a different size and that most sites are selling it at a significantly lower price than the current version. Does anyone have any details? Is it a 'light' version of the existing book, which the new size and lower price seems to imply, or does it cover everything that was featured in the existing book?

It should also be noted that Taschen, the publishers of the existing book, don't feature this new version on their web page.

So, does anyone have any info on this?

I've heard that Stanley Kubrick did not approve of the way Spartacus turned out, and that he largely distanced himself from the film. If so, if the movie still good and worth seeing, in your opinion?

I managed to to get a chance to go into the Stanley Kubrick Archives here in London next week. To anyone who has been or knows what there is there, what you recommend seeing?

To anyone who doesn't know about the collection I would recommend this amazing documentary.

How would you respond to the opinion that Stanley Kubrick's films are, "cold", or devoid of humanity?

Some people told me that in a thread I made on r/movies about Hitchcock vs Kubrick

Since from time to time DeLonge quote of "3 days without sleep" , or "somber" appear, i found useful to share scripts of a movie, made by Stanley Kubrick (finished by S. Spielberg), who wrote most dialogues between 1977 and 1995.

It's a story of an AI who does not know it is a robot. Kubrick adapted the original novel and added several elements of Pinocchio, the journey of a wooden toy -with feelings and consciousness- to become "real". His creator loved it as a son, but pinocchio had to pass several tasks and prove itself until accomplish.

Part of the script:

HOBBY: I first heard of your Blue Fairy from Monica. What did you believe the Blue Fairy could do for you?

DAVID: She would make me a real boy.

HOBBY: But you are a real boy. At least as real as I've ever made one which by all reasonable accounts would make me your Blue Fairy.

DAVID: You are not her. Dr. Know told me she would be here at the lost city in the sea at the end of the world where the lions weep.

HOBBY: And that's what Dr. Know needed to know in order to get you to come home to us. And it's the only time we intervened; the only help that we gave him to give to you, so you could find your way home to us.

Until you were born, robots didn't dream, robots didn't desire, unless we told them what to want. David! Do you have any idea what a success story you've become? You found a fairy tale and inspired by love, fueled by desire, you set out on a journey to make her real and, most remarkable of all, no one taught you how. We actually lost you for a while. But when you were found again we didn't make our presence known because our test was a simple one: Where would your self-motivated reasoning take you? To the logical conclusion? The Blue Fairy is part of the great human flaw to wish for things that don't exist. Or to the greatest single human gift - the ability to chase down our dreams. And that is something no machine has ever done until you.

DAVID: I thought I was one of a kind.

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another part, the AI talking with another AI

Wait! What if the Blue Fairy isn't real at all, David? What if she's magic? The supernatural is the hidden web that unites the universe. Only Orga believe what cannot be seen or measured. It is that oddness that separates our species. Or what if the Blue Fairy is an electronic parasite... that has a reason to haunt the minds of artificial intelligence?

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Later, on the movie, this "

We all know about the wild things at have been said about him filming (and faking) the moon landing, the stuff said in Room 237, him being killed by the Illuminati and such. But which are the ones you actually believe or think they might have something true about them?