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2001: A Space Odyssey: Art vs. 2012 Reality

David H. Bailey | Posted 05.09.2012 | Science
Read More: Siri, 2001 a Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, Voice Recognition, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Movies, Artificial Intelligence, Tablets, Science News
David H. Bailey

What is missing is a sales pitch -- like the arms race but ideally less grim -- that made possible the Apollo program. Time will tell when and how the 2001 vision will be realized, and if it will be human or robotic. In the meantime, we all can dream.

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PHOTOS: Stanley Kubrick's NYC Subway Photography

Posted 05.07.2012 | New York
Read More: Stanley Kubrick, Walker Evans, New York City Subway, Museum of the City of New York, Ny News, Life and Love on the New York City Subway, Mta, New York News, Stanley Kubrick Photos, New York News

Following in the footsteps of Walker Evans, a young Stanley Kubrick, during his tenure as a staff photographer for Look magazine in the 1940s, capture...

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On His 75th Birthday, The Best Jack Nicholson Movies of All Time

John Farr | Posted 04.05.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Keanu Reeves, Peter Fonda, Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Greg Kinnear, Demi Moore, Faye Dunaway, Diane Keaton, Best Movies by Farr, Cuba Gooding Jr, Jules Feiffer, Candice Bergen, Bob Rafelson, Jeff Daniels, Milos Forman, Hope Davis, Hal Ashby, Helen Hunt, The Academy Awards, Best Movies on DVD, Randy Quaid, Dennis Hopper, Best Movies, Danny Devito, Thirteen/WNET, John Huston, Dermot Mulroney, Rip Torn, Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Shelley Duvall, Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, James L. Brooks, Entertainment News
John Farr

It does not seem quite possible that Jack Nicholson could be turning 75 today. He seems ageless, particularly when you revisit his best films. And that's just what we should all do to mark the occasion.

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'Toy Story' Meets 'The Shining'

Posted 03.08.2012 | Arts
Read More: Video, Toy Story 3, Twitter, Lee Unkrich, Pixar Studio, Stanley Kubrick, Kyle-Lambert, Toy Shining, The Shining, Pixar, Disney Pixar, Slidepollajax, Jack Nicholson, Animation, Arts News

It is incredibly creepy when childhood artifacts are put into a darker, more adult context. We can't imagine anything scarier than Stanley Kubrick's "...

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Kirk Douglas Turns 95!

John Farr | Posted 05.18.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Robert Mitchum, Walter Matthau, Charles Laughton, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Stanley Kubrick, Academy Awards, Burt Lancaster, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Spartacus, Best Movies by Farr, Vincente Minnelli, Ava Gardner, Laurence Olivier, Lauren Bacall, Lana Turner, Michael Douglas, Old Hollywood, Hollywood, Celebrities, Entertainment News
John Farr

Should we call him "Spartacus"? Or "Champion"? Both names certainly fit the man. Kirk Douglas turns 95 tomorrow, and he is still very much with us.

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SLIDESHOW: Stanley Kubrick's NYC Photography

Posted 12.06.2011 | New York
Read More: New York City Photography, Vandm, New York Culture, Stanley Kubrick, Museum of the City of New York, NY Culture, Look Magazine, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, Exposure, New York News

Before Stanley Kubrick was a master filmmaker (Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining) he was a teenager i...

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Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left

G. Roger Denson | Posted 02.06.2013 | Arts
Read More: Elizabeth Catlett, Gillo Pontecorvo, Stanley Kubrick, Pop Art, Picasso, Komar and Melamid, Guy Debord, Political Art, The Gulag Archipelago, Jacob Lawrence, Feliks Topolski, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Minimalism, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Existentialism, Theresienstadt Camp, Felix Nussbaum, Shu Ogawara, Situationists, Holocaust Art, House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Concentration Camp Artists, Vienna-Actionists, Simone De Beauvoir, Abstract Expressionism, Political Art Timeline, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

2011-12-03-Screenshot20111203at10.01.48AM.pngMost demarcations of historical epochs are necessarily vague. Not this one.

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Movie review: Sleeping Beauty

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.31.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Sucker Punch, Sleeping Beauty Movie Review, Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Ocd, Rotten Tomatoes, Sleeping Beauty, Emily Browning, Fairy Tale, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Julia Leigh, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, David Lynch, Eyes Wide Shut, Lemony Snicket, Prince Charming, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Perhaps I'm not qualified to write about Sleeping Beauty, the debut film from Australian director Julia Leigh. I am, after all, a middle-aged man. An...

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Art's Best Frenemies

Posted 12.31.2011 | Arts
Read More: Marquez, Stephen King, Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick, Raphael, Michelangelo, Gauguin, Best Fiend, Van Gogh, Picasso, Banksy, Warner Herzog, Kinski, Art History, Artist Drama, Robbo, Frenemy, Arts News

Long before middle school girls made 'frenemy' a household term with their three-way phone calls and backhanded insults, Raphael and Michelangelo were...

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07/16/99 - When Studios Blew the Best Chance to Legitimize the NC-17

Scott Mendelson | Posted 12.28.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Mpaa, Stanley Kubrick, Shame, Warner Bros, Nicole Kidman, Eyes Wide Shut, Michael Fassbender, Tom Cruise, Censorship, Nc-17, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

The NC-17 will continue to be a 'scarlet letter' until a major studio is willing to risk releasing a major genre film with that adults-only rating and basically dare chains like AMC, Regal, and Cinemark not to carry it.

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Kubrick's Clockwork Orange Celebrates 40th Anniversary

Jay Weston | Posted 11.19.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: A Clockwork Orange, Si Litvinoff, Stanley Kubrick, John Calley, Classic Films, Malcolm McDowell, Anthony Burgess, Los Angeles News
Jay Weston

The film still shocks us all with its portrayal of those sociopathic brutal youths and their journey of murder, rape and senseless violence.

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UFO Hunter William J. Birnes Talks Aliens and Apollo 18

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 11.04.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: UFO Hunters, Aliens, William J. Birnes, Stanley Kubrick, Lunar Landing, UFO Magazine, Apollo 18, Entertainment News
Gregory Weinkauf

Alien lunar bases? Covert U.S. government lunar bases? Both? Does one hand (NASA) not know what the other hand (the military) is doing? I don't know.

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Street Art, Orgies & Car Crashes: The Work Of Miss Bugs

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 09.19.2011 | Arts
Read More: Slidepollajax, Miss Bugs, Nyc, Hannah Hoch, Stanley Kubrick, Picasso, Brooklyn, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brooklyn Street Art, Mel Ramous, Gustav Klimt, Kurt Schwitters, Warhol, Jaime Rojo, Banksy, Man Ray, Steven P. Harringon, Takashi Murakami, Leonardo De Vinci, Brooklynite Gallery, Keith Haring, David Lynch, Mc Escher, Shakespeare, Vera Lehndorff, UK Arts, Arts News
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

A stunningly horrendous car crash. A windshield smashed in by a wooden stump. A shard of white light cutting sharply through a smoke cloud which rises...

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Annals of the Overrated: Lady Gaga and The Tree of Life

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.27.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Stanley Kubrick, James Jones, Janet Jackson, Disco, The Tree of Life, The New World, Steven Spielberg, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Material Girl, Marshall Fine Commentary, The Big Bang, Days of Heaven, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Laura Nyro, Koyaanisqatsi, Madonna, Like a Virgin, Pocahontas, Born This Way, Cannes Film Festival, The Thin Red Line, Hbo, Terrence Malick, Vogue, Marshall Fine, Godfrey Reggio, Cher, Badlands, Papa Don?T Preach, Jamestown Colony, Lady GaGa, Saturday Night Live, 1970s, Michael Bay, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Last week I saw Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. Then I saw Lady Gaga on SNL. And I had the same reaction to both: Why are there so many people out there willing to declare this stuff great art?

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Monday Madness: Chatting with Rob Zombie, Danny Elfman, Devo's Gerald Casale and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.22.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Jim Jones Revue, Back to School, Martin Scorsese, Edwards Scissorhands, Akira Kurosawa, Dimitri Tiomkin, Carlos Chaivez, Rob Zombie, Pierre Yuksek, The Drums, Marilyn Manson, Steven Spielberg, Pavement, Rush, A Clock Orange, Bernard Herrmann, Kinky, Dick Tracy, Daft Punk, Werner Herzog, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ariel Pink, Devo, Richard Craft, Lincoln Center, Slayer, The Voyage of Sinbad, Tim Burton, Max Steiner, John Huston, Russ Meyer, Gerry Casale, Woolite, A Perfect Circle, Harlem, Kii Arens, U2, Phoenix, Comedy Central, Jell-O, Slipknot, Broadway Danny Rose, Weird Science, Forbidden Zone, The Lords of Salem, Joni Mitchell, Army of Darkness, Danny Elfman, Sebastien Teller, Stanley Kubrick, Jeffrey Miller, Jason Trucco, Beetlejuice, Paul Simon, Seb Caudron, Alice in Wonderland, Big Fish, Alfred Hitchcock, Silverchair, The Pixies, Jason & the Argonauts, Federico Fellini, Tom Papa, Ginger Fish, Gus Van Sant, Smith Westerns, Franz Waxman, Alexandre Desplat, Roman Polanski, Richard Prior, Carny, Midnight Run, Oingo Boingo, Stephen Colbert, Gary Busey, The Cars, Batman, The Static Revenger, Steve Martin, John Williams, Iron Maiden, Allison Krause, White Zombie, The Bewitched Hands, Jon Stewart, Twyla Tharpe, Soundgarden, Aaron Sorkin, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Nono Rota, Air, Paul Reubens, Peatport, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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Stephen King Sounds Off On "Carrie" Remake

ew.com | Posted 07.20.2011 | Books
Read More: Carrie, The Shining, Stanley Kubrick, Book Adaptations, Stephen King, Film Adaptations, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Books News

Thirty-five years after Stephen King’s first best-seller roared into theaters and scared a generation of prom-going teens, MGM and Screen Gems have ...

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50 Years Later: The Alan Shepard Freedom 7 Flight

Neal Thompson | Posted 07.03.2011 | Media
Read More: Alan Shepard, Neil Armstrong, Moon Landing, Birther-Movement, Stanley Kubrick, Space Exploration, Moon Landing Hoax, Moon Landing Conspiracy, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Media News
Neal Thompson

From the start, exploring space was all about the race, the competition between two superpowers, each flexing their nation's brains and brawn. Who wou...

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Van Gogh, Kubrick, Gaga: Highlights This Week

The Huffington Post | Melinda Brocka | Posted 06.01.2011 | Arts
Read More: Paris Film Museum, V Magazine, Lichtenstein, Stanley Kubrick, Art Auctions, Museums, Highlights This Week, Sculpture, Lady GaGa, Van Gogh, Painting, Film, Lady Gaga v Magazine, Arts News

It's been a weird week of arts news. The strange world of Stanley Kubrick is on display, a $4.1 million statue won at auction is claimed to be a fake,...

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Experience Stanley Kubrick's World In New Exhibition

Posted 05.29.2011 | Arts
Read More: Paris Film Museum, Video, Paths of Glory, Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick, Deutsch Film Museum, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Spartacus, The Shining, The Killing, Film, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Arts News

To watch a Stanley Kubrick film like '2001: A Space Odyssey' or 'Dr. Strangelove' is to enter a veritable museum of pioneering set design and visual e...

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Kubrick, 5Pointz & Tiger Blood | Highlights This Week

The Huffington Post | Melinda Brocka | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Images, Stanley Kubrick, Five Pointz, Spider-Man Musical, Charlie Sheen Art, Grafitti, 5pointz, Charlie Sheen Poll, Philip Haas, Performance Art, Sxsw, Arts News

From Julie Taymor quitting Spider-Man to Charlie Sheen's consumption of tiger blood, from the best painting exhibitions to the best acts at SXSW, from...

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WATCH: A Video Tribute To Stanley Kubrick On The Anniversary Of His Death

The Huffington Post | Melinda Brocka | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Video, Stanley Kubrick, Entertainment, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Anniversary Kubrick Death, Spartacus, Kubrick Death, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Arts News

Today marks the anniversary of the death of legendary American film director Stanley Kubrick who died March 7, 1999 from natural causes, he was 70. ...

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Remaking Kubrick and Fassbinder: Artist Brice Dellsperger Reveals New Opus of His 28 Parts Oeuvre

Anne Couillaud | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Rainer Fassbinder, Video, Jean-Luc Verna, Stanley Kubrick, Brice Dellsperger, Slidepollajax, Eyes Wide Shut, Team Gallery, Arts News
Anne Couillaud

Dellsperger's series has offered us strange and powerful film remakes. Currently on view at the Team Gallery are his versions of In a Year with 13 Moons and Eyes Wide Shut.

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Exclusive Q&A: Tron: Legacy Kicks Joe Kosinski's Film Career in Motion

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Walt Disney Company, Tron, Jeff Bridges, Daft-Punk, Tron: Legacy, Joseph Kosinski, Box-Office Winner, Steven Spielber, Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

When director Joseph Kosinski got the assignment to create the science fiction film Tron: Legacy, he had a lot to prove. Apparently he's succeeded well enough.

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Black Swan -- A Second Time

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Tchaikovsky, Ballet, Black Swan, Stanley Kubrick, Adrian Lyne, Pauline Kael, Chicago News
Michael Jones

As the father of a ballerina I wanted to see Black Swan again, this time with her ballet teacher of many years. It was a completely different experience.

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Will Robotics Take the Art Out of Artificial Intelligence?

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Henry Ford Museum, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Robotics, Jens Schanze, Stanley Kubrick, Darpa, Christine O?Donnell, Google Driverless Car, Plug and Pray, War With the Newts, Ars Electronica, Hans-Joachim Wunsche, Singularity University, Robotic Vehicles, Golem, Minoru Asada, Speech Recognition, Henry Ford, Joseph Weizenbaum, Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Karel Capek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, William Clay Ford, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Raymond Kurzweil, Artificial Intelligence, Robocup, Geminoid, Wargames, Arts News
George Heymont

Will robotics strip the potential for creating art from artificial intelligence? Although Plug and Pray has some genuinely creepy moments, it's a film that is definitely worth your attention.

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