Making The Shining

January 20, 2010 12:15 PM

Making The Shining "Stanley Kubrick allowed his then-17-year-old daughter, Vivian, to make a documentary about the production of THE SHINING. Created originally for the British television show BBC Arena, the documentary offers rare insight into the shooting process of a Kubrick film." (BBC Arena, 35mins.)
posted by vronsky (15 comments total)

with commentary track by Vivian Kubrick
posted by vronsky at 12:17 PM on January 20, 2010

This is the documentary that's an extra on the DVD, innit?
posted by shakespeherian at 12:17 PM on January 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

I think so, nome sane?
posted by vronsky at 12:22 PM on January 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

I can't find a reference, but I recall reading that Vivian was absorbed completely into the Church of Scientology at some point and that no one in the family had seen her in years at the time of her father's death.
posted by anazgnos at 12:25 PM on January 20, 2010

this is the documentary that showed the abuse kubrick heaped on shelley duvall during filming, right?
posted by shmegegge at 12:33 PM on January 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

I vaguely remember reading that somewhere too anazgnos.

I was just thinking that this was probably the last interesting performance Jack ever gave in a film. Much like Blade Runner was the last time Harrison Ford was even remotely cool (except for maybe Witness and Frantic).

If you see either of their names involved with a movie now it might as well be a sign in large letters saying AVOID THIS MOVIE AT ALL COST!
posted by vronsky at 12:34 PM on January 20, 2010

I'll never get why Stephen King objects so strongly to "The Shining" a great film and yet heartily endorses the lionshare of crap most of his books become on the screen.
posted by ExitPursuedByBear at 12:35 PM on January 20, 2010

Wow man, like, The Shining, man. It's like, literally the scariest movie ever, man. Some people find the austerity of it to be, like, a flaw, man, while others are all like, "hey man, that is, like, the mood of the piece, you dig? That's like why it's so scary, man."
posted by Mister_A at 12:35 PM on January 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

This is the best use yet of the "redrum" tag.
posted by Mister_A at 12:40 PM on January 20, 2010 [2 favorites]

Jack Nicholson in grim 1980s British movie dressing room and its bathroom, that's my memory of this. How it must have seemed cold and almost East German after California. But Kubrick would only film in the UK, plus it was cheaper.
posted by A189Nut at 12:43 PM on January 20, 2010

Enough with "The Shining" already. Where's the blu-ray "Barry Lyndon"?
posted by Faze at 12:45 PM on January 20, 2010

Enough with "The Shining" already. Where's the blu-ray "Barry Lyndon"?

Good golly I love that movie.
posted by shakespeherian at 12:53 PM on January 20, 2010 [2 favorites]

Double (triple?) post. Previouslies.
posted by dhammond at 12:56 PM on January 20, 2010

Y'know I thought it was a double but couldn't find the old one (s).
posted by shakespeherian at 12:58 PM on January 20, 2010

What I could never understand about the Shining is why this four star resort hotel didn't exploit the natural resources for winter sports enthusiasts.

Tax reasons, I suppose.
posted by IndigoJones at 1:15 PM on January 20, 2010