Seeing The Shining in IMAX: When the Hotel Gets Bigger—and Stranger Last week I went to the movies with friends. Takes a special film to get me out of my house. But I can tell you watching The Shining in IMAX is less like revisiting a classic and more like being swallowed by it. Kubrick’s film has always beenContinue reading “the shining in IMAX: when the hotel gets bigger—and stranger”
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quick thoughts on kubrick and the unsayable
Lately I’ve been obsessed with Stanley Kubrick films. I mention The Shining in class quite often to my students and how it represents an incredible example of psychological dread built into a narrative. A slow and constant ratcheting of tension. (I find myself mentioning films in general quite a bit in creative writing regarding matters of narratology.)Continue reading “quick thoughts on kubrick and the unsayable”