For Stanley Kubrick’s 85th birthday today, the greatest movie never made – his Napoleon biopic, resurrected.
film
LATEST
For Stanley Kubrick’s 85th birthday today, the greatest movie never made – his Napoleon biopic, resurrected.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick, who would’ve been 85 today, on mortality, the fear of flying, and the purpose of existence – a rare 1968 Playboy interview.
Gorgeous vintage glass slides based on Sir John Tenniel’s original drawings for Alice in Wonderland. Magic lanterns are among the 100 ideas that changed film.
It’s a joke to think that a film is going to mean anything if somebody else fiddles with it.
David Lynch on reconciling commercial pressures and creative integrity.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder, 1960. A year later, young Susan Sontag wrote in her diary that the writer must be four people: the nut, the moron, the stylist, and the critic.
From Don Draper’s Old Fashioned to Rocky’s protein shake, The Cocktail Chart of Film & Literature (though mostly film).
Pair with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prohibition recipe and wash down with recipes from history’s great artists and writers.
So great: If Stanley Kubrick had directed Game of Thrones and Saul Bass had designed the poster.
Pair with the legacy in film and design Saul Bass did leave.
Making of the incredible A Boy and His Atom, the world’s smallest movie made by moving actual atoms frame by frame.
Meanwhile, Disney chief scientist Heinz Haber, born 100 years ago today, explains the atom in a 1957 Tomorrowland broadcast and a wonderful related illustrated book titled Our Friend the Atom.
Since I was an infant, I have feared my father’s den. Based on [its] ancient relics and mass clutter, I have since referred to the location as “Steven Heller’s Cave.”
Nicholas Heller, son of the inimitable design critic Steven Heller, takes us inside his father’s legendary den – a bibliophile’s paradise.
Pair with this fantastic Design Matters interview with Heller.
Happy birthday, Saul Bass, greatest graphic designer of all time.
For Saul Bass’s birthday, the title sequence for the 1956 adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days, which one brave Victorian female journalist set out to replicate in real life.
