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...there's something about her Vanity Fair that doesn't quite work. There is no depth beneath its bright surfaces, no potent emotional undercurrents. One thinks of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, also based on a Thackeray novel about an ill-born social outsider on the rise. It too was a beautiful film, but it did not merely record a lost world; it peered at it?as if the fold of a dress or the knot of a cravat might possibly contain the secret of life. Or at least a useful clue to correct behavior...
Finally, after nearly twenty years, Art Spiegelman has returned to comix, generating the same excitement among the comixcenti as Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick's long-delayed final film brought to cinephiles. Though Spiegelman's name may not be as well known to the general public as Kubrick's, his 1986 Holocaust memoir Maus, featuring cats as Nazis and mice as Jews, remains the most recognized graphic novel ever published. In spite of this, Spiegelman became, as he says in the introduction to his new book, "like some farmer being paid not to grow wheat," writing essays and doing cover...
...there's another kind of horror, a subtler, more seductive and lingering kind. "Whether it's Polanski's Repulsion or Rosemary's Baby or Kubrick's The Shining," says former Fox studio boss Bill Mechanic, "some of the best horror movies had a certain elegance to them." These films tell you that what you don't know or notice can hurt you. They are to the gore fests as romantic dramas are to porn. They are about mood, atmosphere, the notion that death is everywhere and inevitable...
DIED. EDMUND M. DIGIULIO, 76, inventor of the Steadicam, a camera-stabilization system, and other innovations in cinematography; of congestive heart failure; in Malibu, Calif. He worked for many years with the director Stanley Kubrick, making possible the gliding camera work in films like The Shining. At the 2001 Oscars, he received a lifetime-achievement award for his technological advances...
...DIED. EDMUND M. DIGIULIO, 76, Oscar-winning film-technology pioneer; in Malibu, California. DiGiulio developed special equipment for director Stanley Kubrick's movies, including A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. His inventions included the Steadicam, a widely used camera-stabilization system. In 2002 he received a technological lifetime achievement Academy Award...