Grid from omEGG ’04, Found fetish ’05
Barry Lyndon is on and it’s like one big gorgeous motion painting. Who else but Stanley could get away with these slow compositions and light effects?
Bridgefence, Keiber and Heinson circa ’95, oil on canvas, aprox 6ft., S. Choi collection, Kubrickmorte ’05, Xbird ’05,
Ben and I were discussing Barry Lyndon last week…Particularly the candle light shots and the wacky fast lens and swiss made rear screen cameras bought from Warner Bros. for a song… married to a spy camera lens (an exageration according to mark schwartzbard: d.p. on arc and hopefully om…He says its a Zeiss 9 milimeter, or something… rare, but not military… but I think in the fifties this lens was developed for and used in the first generation of American Spy satelites… this was a photo camera version…and they had to destroy the bodies of the Swiss made miracle cameras to mount them, but stanely wanted to shoot by candlelight dammit and it was done twice).
Like manna, barry lyndon is on cinemax. If you wait long enough you’ll inevitably see a kubrick film on cienemax. Must be Warner’s owned. 2001 was on last week too… and the last one with tom cruise and Carmella Marner (old brunian pal…she plays a waitress…She’s from brooklyn, but somehow keeps slipping into a British accent… says someone).
Connie got to be in a short lived show with Ryan O’neil last year. I said to him when I heard, “Shit, you’re actiong with Barry Lyndon!”
I wonder if he has some good stories….. I bet.