About the cover photo
…it’s the The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO, which was the visual inpsiration for the Overlook Hotel in THE SHINING. Timberline Lodge in the Mount Hood area of Oregon, which, (as any fan of Stanley Kubrick knows) is the main filming location for Overlook Hotel.
Location Scout Spotlight – A collection of photographs by Neil Hall
…of the film locations used by film director Stanley Kubrick; part six of a series of posts regarding ways others and I have been influenced by the work of the iconic 20th century filmmaker.
Neil’s collection of photos is a delight for any location scout and certainly any film buff or fan of the films of Stanley Kubrick! For a location scout collections such as these serve as valuable historical reference, i.e. I can count *numerous* times my directive for finding a location has been something to the effect of, “you know – something that looks sort of like ….” 😉
Neil Hall – Kubrick Gallery
Although more than ten years since his death, film-maker Stanley Kubrick retains a mythical status in cinema. His films span a variety of genres, locations and eras. Lolita, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket are all milestones of film.
Kubrick – Images by Neil Hall Kubrick Gallery is gone now 🙁
Museum of the City of New York / Through a Different Lens / Stanley Kubrick Photographs
Film Director Stanley Kubrick at IMDB Bio
Official Stanley Kubrick Collection
Google Alerts Feed: Stanley Kubrick
Taschen Books – Kubrick’s Napoleon – The Greatest Movie Never Made
Stanley Kubrick – Wikipedia
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor who did most of his work as an expatriate in the United Kingdom. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His films, typically adaptations of novels or short stories, are noted for their “dazzling”[1] and unique cinematography, attention to details to achieve realism and an inspired use of music scores. Kubrick’s films covered a variety of genres, including war, crime, romantic and black comedies, horror, epic and science fiction. Kubrick was also noted for being a perfectionist, using painstaking care with scene staging and working closely with his actors.
Film Director Stanley Kubrick at Amazon
Location Scout Spotlight – Kubrickr.
Part five of a series of posts regarding ways others and I have been influenced by the work of the iconic 20th century film director Stanley Kubrick.
Kubrickr is a Flickr photo finder that will return tag-driven results, but only photos licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution or Attribution/Non-Commercial licenses. You can then use Kubrickr to assemble an image that is custom fitted for the WordPress Default Theme. WordPress itself is perhaps the most popular blogging software in the world and the software this website is built upon.
“Kubrickr”… you have to be curious about the oh-so-web2.0 name – well actually it’s a play on “Flickr” and “Kubrick” the at-one-time-named WordPress blog software default theme, which, like a number of WordPress themes, allows a photo to be placed in the header area. Kubrickr’s author is Owen Winkler
…Could Kubrickr have potential for use as a location scout tool?
Perhaps, but there are probly many other search tools better suited to finding film location images. The search function of the Flickr website itself is not bad, Google and Bing both have huge image indexes and of course, there is the subscription location service I use, Locamundo. Tag Browsr looks interesting, too. Or call a location scout. Finding locations is what we do!
- Film Director Stanley Kubrick at IMDB Bio
- Warner Brothers Authorized Stanley Kubrick Web Site
- Google Alerts Feed: Stanley Kubrick
- Taschen Books – Kubrick’s Napoleon – The Greatest Movie Never Made
Stanley Kubrick – Wikipedia
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor who did most of his work as an expatriate in the United Kingdom. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His films, typically adaptations of novels or short stories, are noted for their “dazzling”[1] and unique cinematography, attention to details to achieve realism and an inspired use of music scores. Kubrick’s films covered a variety of genres, including war, crime, romantic and black comedies, horror, epic and science fiction. Kubrick was also noted for being a perfectionist, using painstaking care with scene staging and working closely with his actors.
Film Director Stanley Kubrick at Amazon
Location Scout Spotlight – filming locations for The Shining (1980) and other Kubrick-directed films.
Part four of a series of posts regarding ways others and I have been influenced by the work of the iconic 20th century film director Stanley Kubrick.
I hereby declare “Kubrick Week” (ok, well, Kubrick Friday at this point, anyway…) here – with no small thanks due the Kubrick-sessives over at Coudal Partners
…who I found, quite accidentally, on Michael Heilemann’s Kubrick Page (Michael has such long-standing admiration for Stanley Kubrick as to have named his iconic WordPress theme (Kubrick) for the late film director.
The Kubrick WordPress Theme is of considerable merit of its own, having been adopted by as well as development and support continued by WordPress itself to become the WordPress default theme and the design base from which the majority of other WordPress themes originate.
However, I digress… I have, as many other people, of course, known of New York City-born-and-raised Stanley Kubrick and his body of film directorial work (as well as photography, especially earlier in his career – Mr. Kubrick was, at one time, a Look Magazine staff photographer) for some time and have generally enjoyed his films, however it is only very recently that I have developed a serious (and probably somewhat obsessive 😉 interest. My recent posts here are a manifestation of that obsession!
…so, in continuing along without further delay relate existence of a genuine Kubrick gem, the documentary film The Making of the Shining.
Wikipedia describes this documentary film as follows:
Stanley Kubrick allowed his then-17-year-old daughter, Vivian, to make a documentary about the production of The Shining. Created originally for the BBC television show Arena, this documentary offers rare insight into the shooting process of a Kubrick film.
The documentary, together with full-length commentary by Vivian Kubrick, is included on both DVD releases of The Shining.
Documentary of making the shining offline at Google Video
- At this writing, the above video has been “live” at Google video since August 2007. In view of the length of time it has been online, one can only assume that permission has been granted for republication or the owners of the intellectual property rights of same are indifferent*, however, the case could just as well be that no one in a position to possibly suffer damage by an unauthorized republication has noticed? Solid proof of permission to republish prevents me from embedding the Google Video version here with a clean conscience so unless you want to buy the DVD you will have to surf over to Google Video to watch it. Circumstances surrounding republication of Making of The Shining being what they might, it could just as easily have disappeared from Google Video by the time you read this post.
* an interesting note here would be that Mr. Kubrick had a reputation as a vigorous defender of his copyrights and other intellectual property rights.
… moving along, the first link I found on Coudal Partner’s Kubrick Page, followed and which ultimately hooked me was an article written by journalist Jon Ronson published in 2004 the UK Newspaper Guardian Unlimited entitled Citizen Kubrick.
Mr. Ronson was invited to Mr. Kubrick’s estate in 2001 after Mr. Kubrick’s death in 1999:
There are boxes everywhere – shelves of boxes in the stable block, rooms full of boxes in the main house. In the fields, where racehorses once stood and grazed, are half a dozen portable cabins, each packed with boxes. These are the boxes that contain the legendary Kubrick archive.
The story continues forward to illustrate Stanley Kubrick’s arguably obsessive eye for detailed research including discovery of coincidental location scouting files for Eyes Wide Shut of the author’s own neighborhood:
… I choose the one marked EWS – Islington because that’s where I live. Inside are hundreds of photographs of doorways. The doorway of my local video shop, Century Video, is here, as is the doorway of my dry cleaner’s, Spots Suede Services on Upper Street. Then, as I continue to flick through the photographs, I find, to my astonishment, pictures of the doorways of the houses in my own street. Handwritten at the top of these photographs are the words, “Hooker doorway?
…and all for now…
- 10 Things About The Making of The Shining That You Didn’t Know
- Film Director Stanley Kubrick at IMDB Bio
- Warner Brothers Authorized Stanley Kubrick Web Site
- Google Alerts Feed: Stanley Kubrick
- Taschen Books – Kubrick’s Napoleon – The Greatest Movie Never Made
Stanley Kubrick – Wikipedia
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor who did most of his work as an expatriate in the United Kingdom. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His films, typically adaptations of novels or short stories, are noted for their “dazzling” and unique cinematography, attention to details to achieve realism and an inspired use of music scores. Kubrick’s films covered a variety of genres, including war, crime, romantic and black comedies, horror, epic and science fiction. Kubrick was also noted for being a perfectionist, using painstaking care with scene staging and working closely with his actors.
Film Director Stanley Kubrick at Amazon
Location Scout Spotlight – filming locations for The Shining (1980)
Part three of a series of posts regarding ways others and I have been influenced by the work of the iconic 20th century film director Stanley Kubrick.
I had always heard that Stephen King spent some time at Mohonk Mountain House (New Paltz, NY) researching / writing The Shining and that actual filming was done at a resort in Oregon, but according to this page, the Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, OR was only used for a few exteriors and the interiors were filmed at Elstree Studios in London (UK)
Mohonk Mountain House – Wikipedia
The Mohonk Mountain House also known as Lake Mohonk Mountain House, is a historic American resort hotel located on the Shawangunk Ridge in Ulster County, New York. Its prominent location in the town of New Paltz is just beyond the southern border of the Catskill Mountains on the western side of the Hudson River. Two important policy conferences of domestic and international significance have taken place at the hotel.
Elstree Film Studios – Wikipedia
“Elstree Studios” is a generic term which can refer to several film studios based in or around the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree in Hertfordshire, England. A number of studios have existed in this area since film production began in 1927. Some of those studios no longer exist, but several studios still survive today. They are all owned by different organisations and produce both motion pictures and television programmes. The BBC for example has studios in Elstree, named “BBC Elstree Studios”, whereas another company, Elstree Studios Limited, own a separate site known as “Elstree Studios”. As a result confusion often occurs.
Timberline Lodge – Wikipedia
Timberline Lodge is a mountain lodge on the south side of Mount Hood in Oregon, about 60 miles (97 km) east of Portland.
Built in the late 1930s, this National Historic Landmark sits at an elevation of 5,960 feet (1,817 m), within the Mount Hood National Forest and is accessible through the Mount Hood Scenic Byway. It is a popular tourist attraction, drawing more than a million visitors annually. It is noted in film for serving as the exterior of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.
Coudal Partners Kubrick Page
Tangentially Kubrick related: spent some time today in Estes Park, Colorado at The Stanley Hotel, which was the inspiration for The Shining and was where Stephen King wrote it over a five month period. – sd-08.04.07″
Stanley Hotel – Wikipedia
The Stanley Hotel is a 138-room neo-Georgian hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. Located within sight of the Rocky Mountain National Park, the Stanley offers panoramic views of the Rockies. It was built by Freelan O. Stanley of Stanley Steamer fame and opened on July 4, 1909, catering to the rich and famous, including the Titanic survivor Margaret Brown, John Philip Sousa, Theodore Roosevelt, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and a variety of Hollywood personalities.
…The neoclassical hotel was the inspiration for the fictional Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s novel The Shining. While he and his wife were staying at the Stanley, King conceived the basic idea for the novel. ..
…In May 2006, investigators with The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) investigated the hotel for the SciFi program Ghost Hunters…
…Ghost Adventures also filmed an episode there in the 4th season.
Film Director Stanley Kubrick at IMDB Bio
Warner Brothers Authorized Stanley Kubrick Web Site
Google Alerts Feed: Stanley Kubrick
Taschen Books – Kubrick’s Napoleon – The Greatest Movie Never Made
Stanley Kubrick – Wikipedia
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor who did most of his work as an expatriate in the United Kingdom. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His films, typically adaptations of novels or short stories, are noted for their “dazzling”[1] and unique cinematography, attention to details to achieve realism and an inspired use of music scores. Kubrick’s films covered a variety of genres, including war, crime, romantic and black comedies, horror, epic and science fiction. Kubrick was also noted for being a perfectionist, using painstaking care with scene staging and working closely with his actors.
Film Director Stanley Kubrick at Amazon
Location Scout Spotlight: Set Photos from a Clockwork Orange
Part two of a series of posts regarding ways others and I have been influenced by the work of the iconic 20th century film director Stanley Kubrick.
Coudal Partners | Kubrick Page
Set Photos From A Clockwork Orange | photos found on malcommcdowell.net
- Film Director Stanley Kubrick at IMDB Bio
- Warner Brothers Authorized Stanley Kubrick Web Site
- Google Alerts Feed: Stanley Kubrick
- Taschen Books – Kubrick’s Napoleon – The Greatest Movie Never Made
Stanley Kubrick – Wikipedia
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor who did most of his work as an expatriate in the United Kingdom. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His films, typically adaptations of novels or short stories, are noted for their “dazzling”[1] and unique cinematography, attention to details to achieve realism and an inspired use of music scores. Kubrick’s films covered a variety of genres, including war, crime, romantic and black comedies, horror, epic and science fiction. Kubrick was also noted for being a perfectionist, using painstaking care with scene staging and working closely with his actors.
Film Director Stanley Kubrick at Amazon
Location Scout Spotlight – Film Director Stanley Kubrick
part one of a series of posts regarding ways others and I have been influenced by the work of the iconic 20th century filmmaker.
I have always been fascinated by the work and life of film director Stanley Kubrick.
Michael Heilemann designed the original default WordPress blogging software theme and named it Kubrick as an homage to Stanley Kubrick.
There is a link on Michael’s Kubrick page to Chicago advertising, design, and interactive firm, Coudal Partners Kubrick compendium, which is truly a treasure chest of info about film director Stanley Kubrick. Thanks Michael!
