Tag: Stanley Kubrick

  • Full Metal Jackoff and the naming of parts: Kubrick, process and pedagogy.

    Full Metal Jackoff and the naming of parts: Kubrick, process and pedagogy.

    Last weekend I had the opportunity to see a rare screening of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987) as part of the wonderful Bay International Film Festival in Morecambe, organised by Anna Kumacheva, who has recently graduated with a PhD from my department at Lancaster University. Rewatching the film for the first time in years, it is…

  • A non-verbal experience: Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

    A non-verbal experience: Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

    Introduction to 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) – Dukes cinema, Lancaster, May 9th, 2012 This was the introductory public talk I gave for this rare screening of Kubrick’s film at the Dukes cinema in Lancaster, the screening of which was actually approved by the Kubrick estate only because it was accompanied by an introductory lecture 2001: A…