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    Oct 5, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Chicago International Film Festival gets a digital face-lift

    The biggest changes afoot in this year's Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), the 48th edition, are on the screen, yet they're not part of the programming. As the worldwide cinema industries push actual film — meaning celluloid — into the past or off to the hardy margins of cinephilia, digital projection has become dominant. Filmmakers and audiences can debate the aesthetics and the creative implications of such a shift.
    The biggest changes afoot in this year's Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), the 48th edition, are on the screen, yet they're not part of the programming. As the worldwide cinema industries push actual film — meaning celluloid — into...

    Tags: Festive Events, The Shining (movie), Film Festivals, Denis Lavant, Rome (Italy)

    2. Apr 4, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. 'Shining' students dissect object of their obsession in 'Room 237' ★★★

    We are nothing without our obsessions, and Rodney Ascher's "This American Life"-ish documentary "Room 237" intertwines the obsessive, often risible theories of five very big fans of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining."
    We are nothing without our obsessions, and Rodney Ascher's "This American Life"-ish documentary "Room 237" intertwines the obsessive, often risible theories of five very big fans of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." Take it one of two ways. One: It's a...

    Tags: The Shining (movie), Baking Powder, Stephen King, Entertainment, Jack Nicholson

    3. Apr 4, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. The man behind the people who know the story behind 'The Shining'

    You know the Calumet Baking Powder cans in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"? You know &mdash; the <em>Calumet</em> Baking cans? Lining the pantry of the film's Overlook Hotel? No, no: The baking cans behind all the carnage! Right, <em>those</em> baking cans. What's that, you didn't notice those cans, red and white, with the familiar Indian-headdress logo, what with all the rivers of blood and the axe-wielding and the bug-eyed Shelley Duvalls?
    You know the Calumet Baking Powder cans in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"? You know — the Calumet Baking cans? Lining the pantry of the film's Overlook Hotel? No, no: The baking cans behind all the carnage! Right, those baking cans. What's that,...

    Tags: The Shining (movie), Baking Powder, Film Festivals, ABC (tv network), Stanley Kubrick

    4. Apr 4, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Movie secrets are there, in the script!

    You know what "Star Wars" is about? I mean, <em>really</em> about? Vietnam. It's a critical allegory of the war: The Rebels are the scrappy Viet Cong, hastily assembled, devoted and relentless; the Empire is the American military, tripped up by an enemy using guerrilla tactics and inferior weaponry. Oh, there's more here, but...
    You know what "Star Wars" is about? I mean, really about? Vietnam. It's a critical allegory of the war: The Rebels are the scrappy Viet Cong, hastily assembled, devoted and relentless; the Empire is the American military, tripped up by an enemy using...

    Tags: Naomi Watts, Oliver Stone, The Dark Knight Rises (movie), Willem Dafoe, Easy Rider (movie)

    5. May 7, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  5. Mother takes synagogue to view son's film

    Hollywood resident Brenda Ascher is a proud Jewish mother. Her son Rodney Ascher is the director of the documentary, "Room 237," where people provide numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film "The Shining." Ascher and...

    Tags: The Shining (movie), The Holocaust (1934-1945), Judaism, Entertainment, Stanley Kubrick

    6. Mar 31, 2013 |Story| Glendale News Press

  6. Digging deep into 'The Shining'

    There is nothing especially frightening about Room 350 at the Standard Hotel on the Sunset Strip. It overlooks the pool, with colorful mod d&eacute;cor pleasantly bathed in bright window light. Inside, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher is prepared to discuss the startling obsessions of his "Room 237."
    There is nothing especially frightening about Room 350 at the Standard Hotel on the Sunset Strip. It overlooks the pool, with colorful mod décor pleasantly bathed in bright window light. Inside, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher is prepared to discuss...

    Tags: A Clockwork Orange (movie), The Shining (movie), The Holocaust (1934-1945), Symbols and Symbolism, Entertainment

    7. Apr 8, 2013 |Story| SFL

  7. O Cinema's B-movie series is all about the schlock

    In a lineup that includes movies about overgrown, murderous alligators on growth hormones and surrealistic re-creations of witchcraft and mental illness, can Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" be too mainstream?
    In a lineup that includes movies about overgrown, murderous alligators on growth hormones and surrealistic re-creations of witchcraft and mental illness, can Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" be too mainstream? If you ask Kevin Bosch, the answer is yes....

    Tags: The Shining (movie), Entertainment, Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick, Movies

    8. Apr 3, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Shining a light on metaphorical readings of 'The Shining'

    Since its release in 1980, Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Stephen King's "The Shining" has firmly embedded itself into the pop consciousness with its shudder-inducing cry of "Here's Johnny!" and its blood-soaked hallways.
    Since its release in 1980, Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Stephen King's "The Shining" has firmly embedded itself into the pop consciousness with its shudder-inducing cry of "Here's Johnny!" and its blood-soaked hallways. "Room 237," which opens...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, The Shining (movie), Stephen King, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Entertainment

    9. Mar 24, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. New releases: 'On the Road' seeks a style both poetic, realistic

    On the Road
    On the Road Available on VOD beginning Monday Director Walter Salles, screenwriter José Rivera and producer Francis Ford Coppola have given themselves the almost-impossible task of adapting Jack Kerouac's beloved Beat Generation novel "On the Road," a...

    Tags: The Shining (movie), Stephen King, A Royal Affair (movie), Lincoln (movie, 2012), Walter Salles

    10. Dec 6, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Review: 'Room 237' is open to obsession with Kubrick's 'Shining'

    We love movies, those of us who do, because of how deeply they burrow into our psyches, of how they seem to be speaking to us and us alone in a very particular way. But, as the intriguing documentary "Room 237" illustrates, when it comes to some films,...

    Tags: The Shining (movie), Stephen King, The Holocaust (1934-1945), ABC (tv network), Entertainment

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