kubrick’s boxes
August 6th, 2008Work’s been a little slow recently, so I’ve been crossing items off the ole to do list, and watching this fascinating hour-long doc on the thousands of boxes Kubrick left behind when he died. The guy who made it spent 5 years going through the boxes (off and on, not 5 solid years), and the doc is a really interesting look at a bit of an obsessive recluse.
The whole thing is on google video…I found it via good old metafilter…here’s a great clip where the filmmaker finds a bunch of behind-the-scenes footage shot by Kubrick’s daughter on the set of Full Metal Jacket…apart from how fun it is to see a little bit of what Kubruck was like, I love how prominently tea figures in this scene…
this is fantastic, I can’t believe he had to put up with a serious case of builders tea anguish. Was the guy holding the flask talking back to him?
I’ve watched it a few times and can’t quite work out what’s happening at the end…it seems like flask guy is trying to turn the tables on him by saying that he too is against the crew having 4 tea breaks…
but he might be joking…Kubrick kind of deadpan smirks at him in the end…hmmm…