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DIED. MARIE WINDSOR, 80, longtime Screen Actors Guild activist and film-noir starlet famous for portraying independent if not always angelic women; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Best known for the noir classics Force of Evil and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing, Windsor also starred in a string of films in the 1950s, such as Cat Women of the Moon, that earned her the moniker Queen...
...story's cause. There is also the sense that we've seen this all before, and we have. It was called _2001: A Space Odyssey_ from which this work has ripped much of its form and content. More polite individuals might choose the terms "derivation" from or "homage" to Kubrick's great work, but so many elements are copied from space suit construction to the space station's appearance and the aforementioned computerized vocals it's almost like De Palma watched the film over and over again to get his ideas. That's a fantastic testament to Kubrick's skill...
...four new compositions and two tracks previously released on the import-only No Education = No Future (F**k the Curfew). A more restrained, ambient Mogwai emerges here: on four of the tracks, percussion is barely apparent. Chiming guitars and a somber bass make for an elegiac sound on "Stanley Kubrick" and "Burn Girl Prom Queen," while a piano provides the melody for "Christmas Song." The band's primary strength is its sense of tension: they have an ability to balance melody with noise akin to the Velvet Underground. On this release, as on their last album (Come On Die Young...
...babe-filled Sky Bar, I was looking at an older, married guy on a business trip who was wistfully scoping out the action. I asked my two friends, both of whom had girlfriends, if they thought we'd wind up like him, as sexually stunted as Stanley Kubrick must have been when he directed Eyes Wide Shut. "By the time I'm his age, you know what I'll be thinking about?" one of them asked, staring at a hot but annoyingly giggly blond. "Pie. A nice piece of pie. Even right now if you offered...
...visions of The Future were carrying that theme even farther. Stanley Kubrick immortalized the year some people feel is the real millennial year in his movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," a film clearly set in The Future. In it, HAL, a dangerous supercomputer, shows that technology could be destructive, warning us to be careful as we progress. (You know, I've always thought those new iMacs looked a little suspicious...