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Re: Would like to add Kubrick's The Shining...

Kubrick is reported to have said to friends that EWS was "my best film." I thought is was brilliant, though slow-moving. There's another Kubrick film I thought was slow-moving, which I later came to savor every second of: 2001. EWS is a highly complex psychological drama, not as "accessible" (if you can even use that world with Kubrick after 1968) as some of his other films. I always felt the key to the film was why the Cruise character goes out of orbit over his wife's recital of a fleeting attraction (was it?) told to simple make him jealous. To me, it's a meditation on the forces which hold a couple together, as opposed to forces, both physiological and psychological (the same thing?) that can drive them apart. Interestingly, it's a film where dream, masquerade, and reality all exist on the same plain. I also thought Kidman stole the show. One more tid-bit: the character played by Sidney Pollack was originally intended to be played by Harvey Keitel, who seems to me to have been a MUCH better choice for the role. I think Pollack's performance, while solid, was lackluster and may even have detracted from the film.

Anyone know why Kietel walked out? Or did he?

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