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2001: Odissea nello spazio, la versione di Soderbergh

Multimedia   19.01.15  

Steve Soderbergh ha rimontato uno dei capolavori di Stanley Kubrick, 2001: Odissea nello spazio.

[...] i've seen every conceivable kind of film print of 2001, from 16mm flat to 35mm internegative to a cherry camera negative 70mm in the screening room at warner bros, and i'm telling you, none of them look as good as a bluray played on an pioneer elite plasma kuro monitor. And while you're cleaning up your spit take over that sentence, let me also say i believe SK would have embraced the current crop of digital cameras, because from a visual standpoint, he was obsessed with two things: absolute fidelity to reality-based light sources, and image stabilization. Regarding the former, the increased sensitivity without resolution loss allows us to really capture the world as it is, and regarding the latter, post-2001 SK generally shot matte perf film (normally reserved for effects shots, because of its added steadiness) all day, every day, something which digital capture makes moot. Pile on things like never being distracted by weaving, splices, dirt, scratches, bad lab matches during changeovers, changeovers themselves, bad framing and focus exacerbated by projector vibration, and you can see why i think he might dig digital.

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La colonna sonora originale di 2001: Odissea nello Spazio

Multimedia   21.12.14  

In un primo momento la colonna sonora di uno dei film più importanti, celebrati e da troppi incompreso fu affidata al compositore Alex North che aveva nel suo curriculum pellicole come Spartacus, Chi ha paura di Virginia Wolf?, Cleopatra e Un tram che si chiama desiderio.
Tuttavia Stanley Kubrick durante la fase di editing ci ripenso ritenendola totalmente inadeguata (e a ragione per un film divenuto immortale anche per la sua colonna sonora), decidendo di andare sul classico. Alex North scoprì di essere stato estromesso durante la proiezione della prima a New York, ma questo è solo l'ennesimo aneddoto sulla difficoltà dei geni a intrattenere relazioni interpersonali.

Ecco cosa raccontò Kubrick a riguardo durante un'intervista rilasciata a Michel Cimen.

However good our best film composers may be, they are not a Beethoven, a Mozart or a Brahms. Why use music which is less good when there is such a multitude of great orchestral music available from the past and from our own time? When you're editing a film, it's very helpful to be able to try out different pieces of music to see how they work with the scene. This is not at all an uncommon practice. Well, with a little more care and thought, these temporary music tracks can become the final score. When I had completed the editing of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I had laid in temporary music tracks for almost all of the music which was eventually used in the film. Then, in the normal way, I engaged the services of a distinguished film composer to write the score. Although he and I went over the picture very carefully, and he listened to these temporary tracks (Strauss, Ligeti, Khatchaturian) and agreed that they worked fine and would serve as a guide to the musical objectives of each sequence he, nevertheless, wrote and recorded a score which could not have been more alien to the music we had listened to, and much more serious than that, a score which, in my opinion, was completely inadequate for the film.

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I film incompiuti di Stanley Kubrick

Multimedia   16.07.14  

Un documentario per raccontare i film mai realizzati da Stanley Kubrick. Narrato da Malcolm McDowell e con interviste a collaboratori e colleghi.
Lost Kubrick ripercorre alcune di queste pellicole perdute come Napoleone, The Aryan Papers e A.I. Artificial Intelligence (pre Spielberg) analizzando il percorso creativo di ognuno di essi attraverso la visione e la cura maniacale per i dettagli di Kubrick.

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I film amati da Kubrick

Multimedia   31.07.13  

In occasione dell'85esimo compleanno di Stanley Kubrick, Nick Wrigley ha raccolto i film preferiti del regista e i suoi commenti a riguardo con l'aiuto del braccio destro e cognato di Kubrick, Jan Harlan.

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