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Stephen King, The Shining (1977)

First, the confession. Until now, I have never read a Stephen King novel. In my early teens, I just could not get into Christine (1983) or Carrie (1974) or, indeed, The Shining. Each time I gave up a...

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The Shining (Mick Garris 1997)

Stephen King just won’t let it go. There is an ‘Author’s Note’ at the end of Doctor Sleep (2013) that, under the guise of clarifying that it is a sequel-by-popular-demand to his 1977 novel rather than...

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Room 237 (Rodney Ascher 2012)

This is easily the most fun and interesting, and least time-consuming, of the various associated texts I’m working through in preparation for teaching The Shining as a cult movie (King’s novel, the...

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The Shining (Stanley Kubrick 1980)

It is difficult to know what to say about The Shining, especially as so much has already been said, some of it of dubious merit. Like Stephen King, I am baffled as to why people find it so scary;...

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120 years of sf cinema, part four: 1955-64

2015 marks the 120th anniversary of sf cinema. This is the fourth part of a year-by-year list of films I’d recommend (not always for the same reasons). Part one (1895-1914), part two (1915-1934), part...

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120 years of sf cinema, part five: 1965-74

2015 marks the 120th anniversary of sf cinema. This is the fifth part of a year-by-year list of films I’d recommend (not always for the same reasons). Part one (1895-1914), part two (1915-34), part...

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Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski 2013)

and so anyway it turns out the best thing about Oblivion (2013), a film which patches together bits from every other science fiction film ever, is the way in which flying spherical robot drones manage...

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Crimson Peak (del Toro 2015)

Pretty much all the commentary so far has been about one of two things. Critics have been unanimous in their praise of how gorgeous the film looks, from its gothicky design to its fabulous frocks and...

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Crumbs (Miguel Llansó Ethiopia/Spain/Finland 2015)

Ultimately, the opening text tells us, the war became unnecessary. Perhaps it was a mutation, or perhaps bone-deep ideology just changed. But people gave up on survival, on perpetuating the species....

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The City in Fiction and Film, week 12

week 11 This was a nice gentle week, beginning with watching Passport to Pimlico (Henry Cornelius 1949) and then turning to other matters before discussing it. First up was some general feedback on the...

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My top thirty-two films of 2015

This year, I watched 365 films (though I could not work up the energy to transcribe the incomplete-because-of-system-constraints list from my FB page this morning, so you will have to go dig around...

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The City in Fiction and Film, week 14

This week we continued our exploration of the US postwar suburbs (see week 13), reading Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and watching Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (Siegel 1956). Both texts were...

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The City in Fiction and Film, week 15. Urban alienation: machines for living...

Week 14 This week we turned from the American suburbs to futuristic (that is, 1960s) Paris, with Alphaville (Godard 1965). But first we took a trip through the history of representations of the city in...

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The 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick 1968) haikus

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The Hands of Orlac, and its adaptations

[This is one of several pieces written for a book on adaptations that has never appeared] Maurice Renard’s Les Mains d’Orlac/The Hands of Orlac (1920), adapted as Orlacs Hände (Robert Wiene 1924), Mad...

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The Walk (Robert Zemeckis 2015)

And so anyway it turns out that the best thing about The Walk (2015) – Robert Zemeckis’s attempt to turn thirty-five million dollars, the full cutting-edge apparatus of digital and 3D filmmaking, a...

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Ballard’s Cinema: Notes for a Retrospective – The Drowned World (J. Lee...

  Thwarted in his attempt to produce and star in an adaptation of The Wind from Nowhere (1961), Stanley Baker optioned Ballard’s follow-up novel, The Drowned World (1962), before the ‘Seer of...

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Ballard’s Cinema: Notes for a Retrospective – Jodorowsky’s Burning World...

Broadcaster David Frost and his partner Hazel Adair, perhaps best known as the creator of the long-running soap opera Crossroads (1964–88), bought the rights to adapt The Drought aka The Burning World...

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Contact (Robert Zemeckis 1997)

Last week I was invited to introduce a screening of Contact – a film I had seen twice in twenty years and then saw twice in the same week – as part of this series at Bristol Cathedral. (The last film I...

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos 2017)

and so anyway it turns out that the best thing about The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Yorgos Lanthimos’s tepidly comic but ultimately toothless mash-up of Ballard, Kubrick and Lynch, is not the...

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