There’s a new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art showcasing all sorts of artifacts from his movies:

The exhibition covers the breadth of Kubrick’s practice, beginning with his early photographs for Look magazine, taken in the 1940s, and continuing with his groundbreaking directorial achievements of the 1950s through the 1990s. His films are represented through a selection of annotated scripts, production photography, lenses and cameras, set models, costumes, and props. In addition, the exhibition explores Napoleon and The Aryan Papers, two projects that Kubrick never completed, as well as the technological advances developed and utilized by Kubrick and his team. By featuring this legendary film auteur and his oeuvre as the focus of his first retrospective in the context of an art museum, the exhibition reevaluates how we define the artist in the 21st century, and simultaneously expands upon LACMA’s commitment to exploring the intersection of art and film.

Now I know what I’m doing this weekend.

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I saw Skyfall over the weekend and I thought it was great.

The action was intense, the Bond girl was hot and, most importantly, Bond briefly drives as Aston Martin DB5 like Sean Connery did in Goldfinger.

Bones Brigade: An Autobiography is now available on iTunes (via The Loop).

It’s directed by Stacy Peralta, former professional skateboarder from the 1970’s and creator of one of my favorite documentaries, Dogtown and Z-Boys.

Here’s a great quote from Skip Engblom I posted back in 2008.

Today DE is exclusively premiering somersetVII’s latest homage to Stanley Kubrick. Not many can summarize the work of the master quite like somersetVII has done. Not only does he illuminate the links between these largely misunderstood films, he also provides a glimpse into the world of Stanley Kubrick the photographer. It is a work of art in and of itself.

A film is—or should be—more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

—Stanley Kubrick

Speaking of great films I’ve discovered, I highly recommend Craigslist Joe.

It’s about a guy who lives completely off Craigslist for an entire month and has some really amazing and touching experiences with people along the way:

CRAIGSLIST JOE – Trailer from Drew Dorenfest on Vimeo.

Although it’s 2 years old, Linotype: The Film is new to me and looks awesome. It started as a Kickstarter project in 2010.

Fellow Exhauster Bryan has been doing movie reviews for over five years on his site Missile Test, under the title, Shitty Movie Sundays.

While we have enjoyed some hilariously bad movies together (Trancers, anyone?), I could not subject myself to the volume of shitty movies Bryan watches.

He explains his philosophy in his review of Resident Evil:

Regular readers will be aware of my affinity for shitty movies. I relish the escape. The right shitty movie can create an emptiness of mind similar to that attained by meditating. Done correctly, all conscious thought is pushed aside while considering a single, meaningless word, like ‘ohm’ or something. When I watch shitty movies, the carnival in my mind stops, the racket quiets and slows, and vision becomes separate from consciousness. I can enter the mindless, the pure and content, through the medium of terrible cinema.

Movies like Resident Evil, then, are therapy. They are escape from the pressures of work and the intellectual workout required in the reading of politics, history, and philosophy, etc. Shitty movies don’t reside in the realm of the vacuous. They are a pressure release valve, a way to expunge the stress of overusing the mind. I’m only partly joking.

Regardless of what I’m willing to watch, I can appreciate his thinking.

People wonder how I know every line from some movies. It’s because I’ve watched them over and over and over again.

To me, a great movie is the same as a great music album.

My question is, why would you not want to watch a great movie again?

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In light of his new role as Lincoln, I thought this scene from Gangs of New York is interesting:

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