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Initial reviews of most of your films are sometimes inexplicably hostile. Then there’s a reevaluation. Critics seem to like you better in retrospect.2001 were insulting, let alone bad. An important Los Angeles critic faulted Paths of Glory because the actors didn’t speak with French accents. When Dr. Strangelove came out, a New York paper ran a review under the head Moscow could not buy more harm to America. Something like that. But critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion. Which is why I think audiences are more reliable than critics, at least initially. Audiences tend not to bring all that critical baggage with them to each film. … [Read more...] about The Rolling Stone Interview: Stanley Kubrick in 1987

Is that why so many films I’ve seen lately seem too dark? Why you don’t really see people in the shadows when clearly the director wants you to see them?Well, theaters try to put in a screen that’s larger than the light source they paid for. If you buy a 2,000-watt projector, it may give you a decent picture 20 feet wide. And let’s say that theater makes the picture forty feet wide by putting it in a wider-angle projector. In fact, then you’re getting 200 percent less light. It’s an inverse law of squares. But they want a bigger picture, so it’s dark. Many exhibitors are terribly guilty of ignoring minimum standards of picture quality. For instance, you now have theaters where all the reels are run in one continuous string. And they never clean the aperture gate. You get one little piece of gritty dust in there, and every time the film runs, it gets bigger. After a couple of days, it starts to put a scratch on the film. The scratch goes from … [Read more...] about Stanley Kubrick: The Rolling Stone Interview

Plus, Nigel Dick, who directed the video for the title track (as well as the “…Baby One More Time” video, among others) shares his memories of working with Spears, including why he thinks his objection to one of her outfits on the set of the “Oops” video led to the end of their collaborations. … [Read more...] about Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of ‘Oops!… I Did It Again’ on Our New Podcast

Nigel Dick had already directed videos for Guns N’ Roses, Oasis, and many others by the time he met Britney Spears in 1998, but even the “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine” clips couldn’t come close to matching the culture-shaking impact of “…Baby One More Time.” … [Read more...] about Inside the ‘Oops!… I Did It Again’ Video, 20 Years Later

Dylan responded with just a grunted “eh.”  “He never said a word,” says Buffett. “I sat there, ate my meal and said, ‘Well, have a good show. See you later.’ That was it. I haven’t seen him since!” … [Read more...] about Jimmy Buffett on That Time He Hung Out on Bob Dylan’s Boat