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The ABCs of Death 2

Posted by MrDisgusting on May 15, 2999 @ 9:49am
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Filmmakers include Alex de la Iglesia, Rodney Ascher, Bill Plympton, Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves), Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club), Splce and Cube‘s Vincenzo Natali, indie horror icon Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter, Habit), The Collection’s Marcus Dunstan, France’s Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (Inside, Livid), E.L. Katz (director of the SXSW breakout hit Cheap Thrills), twin auteurs Jen and Sylvia Soska (American Mary), Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Rabis, Big Bad Wolves), A Lonely Place to Die’s Julian Gilbey, Brazil’s most controversial filmmaker Dennison Ramalho (Ninjas), The Legend of Beaver Dam and the upcoming Stagefright‘s Jerome Sable, and animator Robert Morgan – creator of the BAFTA Award nominated short “Bobby Yeah”.

Room 237

Posted by Ryan Daley on March 29, 2013 @ 12:00am
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After the box office failure of Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick decided to embark on a project that might have more commercial appeal. The Shining, Stephen King’s biggest critical and commercial success yet, seemed like a perfect vehicle. After an arduous production, Kubrick’s film received a wide release in the summer of 1980; the reviews were mixed, but the box office, after a slow start, eventually picked up. End of story? Hardly. In the 30 years since the film’s release, a considerable cult of Shining devotees has emerged, fans who claim to have decoded the film’s secret messages addressing everything from the genocide of Native Americans to a range of government conspiracies. Rodney Ascher’s wry and provocative Room 237 fuses fact and fiction through interviews with cultists and scholars, creating a kaleidoscopic deconstruction of Kubrick’s still-controversial classic.

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[Interview] Talking Theories And Conspiracies With ‘Room 237′ Director Rodney Ascher

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Posted by EvanDickson on March 28, 2013 @ 4:00pm
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Fans of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining won’t want to miss the wild theory infused documentary Room 237. IFC Films releases it tomorrow, March 29th at IFC Center and Elinor Bunim Monroe Film Center in New York City followed by a national rollout. The film will simultaneously be available on Cable VOD, iTunes and other digital outlets (Sundance Now, Amazon Streaming, XBOX and more).

There’s a host of great and interesting stuff in the film if you’re a fan, and director Rodney Ascher does a great job of laying out the various theories of the people he interviewed for the project in a way that the audience is primed to actually consider them rather than reject them outright. I sat down with him a few weeks ago and we discussed his methodology and how far he found himself being invested in these various trains of thought.

“After the box office failure of Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick decided to embark on a project that might have more commercial appeal. The Shining, Stephen King’s biggest critical and commercial success yet, seemed like a perfect vehicle. After an arduous production, Kubrick’s film received a wide release in the summer of 1980; the reviews were mixed, but the box office, after a slow start, eventually picked up. End of story? Hardly. In the 30 years since the film’s release, a considerable cult of Shining devotees has emerged, fans who claim to have decoded the film’s secret messages addressing everything from the genocide of Native Americans to a range of government conspiracies. Rodney Ascher’s wry and provocative Room 237 fuses fact and fiction through interviews with cultists and scholars, creating a kaleidoscopic deconstruction of Kubrick’s still-controversial classic.”

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[TIFF '12] ‘Room 237′ Explores The True Story Of ‘The Shining’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 14, 2012 @ 10:47am
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Ryan Daley was a huge fan out of the Sundance Film Festival, now Rodney Ascher’s awesome Room 237 will be taking Canada by storm.

Acquired by IFC Films, TIFF will be screening this experimental documentary explores the numerous theories about the real meaning of Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining. Check out some new images just added.

“Room 237 is a subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining. The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they’ll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways in, but no way out.”