Saturday, 12 March 2016

The Shining (1979 Stanley Kubrick)

You can hear where Johnny Greenwood's strings in There Will Be Blood came from... Score is fantastically arranged and gathered selection of Bartok, Penderecki and Ligeti.

Jack Nicholson is fantastic - amazing long take with him and the boy in bedroom. Very formally made, scenes have a strange way of playing out in long sequences then suddenly changing the camera position - very Kubrick.

Great use of Steadicam, not just in celebrated track behind the kid (with Garrett Brown following on a rubber-wheeled wheelchair) but e.g. in maze also.

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