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...would have thought that George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick, the three most notable AWOLS in American moviemaking, would all be directing films this year? It's like a harmonic convergence for cineastes and film geeks. Lucas, of course, hasn't been behind a camera since finishing 1977's Star Wars; he is currently in London shooting the first of the three long-awaited Star Wars prequels in which Ewan McGregor will star as the youthful Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Natalie Portman as Luke Skywalker's mom. Kubrick, who hasn't worked since 1987's Full Metal Jacket...
...office duds. But what duds! The two films have survived in critical esteem to be numbered among the more significant films of the 1970s--itself one of the more cinematically significant decades. Malick, however, is probably even better known for not only exiling himself from Hollywood, like Lucas and Kubrick, but also for having willfully removed himself from the public eye altogether and becoming, as it is commonly said, the J.D. Salinger of movies. Out of the aforementioned trio, you certainly wouldn't have guessed that Malick would be the one directing seemingly every other male movie star in Hollywood...
...savvy taxpayer. You want to know what all those computerized stealth thingies are for. Take either ? according to your mood: tragedy or satire ? Lumet or Kubrick, Fail-Safe (1964) or Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963). And watch them nukes fall...
...surprised that no reporter reminded Bacon of a scene in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick's black comedy about nuclear war. Huddled in the Pentagon's secret underground war room, where a horrifying decision about whether to use the bomb has to be made, the President and his top advisers are startled into silence by the ringing of a telephone in front of the general played by George C. Scott. Picking up the receiver, Scott listens for a moment as the hushed assembly looks on, and then whispers, "I thought...
...learn that, gee, Armageddon is colorblind. And just once in a disaster film, could a dog please die? All right, nobody cares. You just want to see the volcano that ate L.A. If so, you?ll have a hell-lava time." MOVIES . . . THE SHINING: Never pleased with Stanley Kubrick's 1980 filmed version of his novel, Stephen King was persuaded to remake "The Shining" into a three-part, six-hour miniseries. Featuring a teleplay by King himself, it would be sweet irony to report that this venture, starring Wings? Steven Weber in the Jack Nicholson role of Jack Torrance...