Sunday, March 28, 2004
Traces of Kubrick
The Guardian has a fascinating article by Jon Ronson on his amazing finds in the legendary archive of Stanley Kubrick. A taste:
The Guardian has a fascinating article by Jon Ronson on his amazing finds in the legendary archive of Stanley Kubrick. A taste:
In one portable cabin, for example, there are hundreds and hundreds of boxes related to Eyes Wide Shut, marked EWS - Portman Square, EWS - Kensington & Chelsea, etc, etc. 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?" "Huh," I think. So somebody within the Kubrick organisation (it was, in fact, his nephew) once walked up my street, on Kubrick's orders, hoping to find a suitable doorway for a hooker in Eyes Wide Shut. It is both an extremely interesting find and a bit of a kick in the teeth.If you're interested in more after reading the article, check out the Kubrick Exhibition featuring some of the items discovered in archive of the the engimatic genius.
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