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Fist to the table with granite resolve, I demand the final screen of these animated visions of Stanley Kubrick’s long list of milestone works (cleverly mounted by Martin Woutisseth) be whipped up into classy, large-ish posters, particularly the one below. Everyone else can have their Tyler Stout geek-out works (also nice, but if you’ve seen [...]
Make it happen
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:53 pm · April 29th, 2011
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‘Dr. Strangelove’ editor talks the film’s lost ending
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:17 am · June 25th, 2009
I only yesterday picked up the new Bluray of Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” one of those canonical classics that becomes almost a cliched entry in any number of all-time-best-films lists. I haven’t had a chance to dive in yet, though the recent mini-controversy (wholly on the web) concerning the grain levels doesn’t worry me all [...]
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When revisionists strike…
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:29 pm · June 21st, 2009
Don’t hurt yourself, Dave Kehr: For all of his technical brilliance, Kubrick had no discernable sense of humor and many of the gags in “Strangelove” — from the broad puns of the character names to the overdrawn figures of Peter Sellers’s Strangelove and Sterling Hayden’s Gen. Jack D. Ripper — seem less funny as their [...]
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6/8 Web Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:52 am · June 8th, 2009
• The “Oh yeah, what happened to her?” blurb of the week. [Associated Press] • Yours truly covers Grant Morrison’s latest monthly, “Batman and Robin.” [Batman on Film] • David Poland analyzes the brave new world of media ad buys. [The Hot Blog] • Tom O’Neil on Geoffrey Rush’s new acting triple crown with last [...]
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THE LISTS: Top 20 movie endings of all time
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:56 am · July 14th, 2008
Alright, this was painstaking indeed. After The Times of London saw fit to rock out a list of the 20 best movie endings of all time last week, I thought I’d try my own hand at such a collective. There are some omissions that might surprise some folks (“Bonnie and Clyde,” “The Graduate,” “Carrie”). At [...]
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What are the best movie endings of all time?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:01 am · July 10th, 2008
I was working on this piece yesterday (nothing major — just pulling together the YouTube clips), but I wasn’t aware how the list was going to pan out. “Carrie” at the top? Not so sure about that. But The Times critics like to be contrarian. Just take a look at their Top 100 Films of [...]
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