I miss film. Listen to the closing remarks in this video and you'll get the idea of what we've lost by going to digital.

This is a fascinating piece.

Have to agree with you on that one. Kubrick was a genius, what a filmmaker. Thanks for posting that.

Just watched it yet again on Blu Ray (no 4k release yet) and the Sony panel and player I use upscales to 4k. Best version I have seen of it so far. One of Kubrick’s best. Brilliant piece of film. The filming techniques I’ve read hundreds of pages on and the video does some justice. Kubrick’s shoots were always long AF. BL was 300 days. The man was insane in mastering every frame, everything in the frame. And unlike Stanley he cast O’Neal. The lighting and cameras for this film will remain a discussion point among film critics and nerds in 100 years. I sure miss his work, because nobody today is even in the same ballpark. For me he is peerless. The Master and GOAT and such a step above anyone else. Rare for anything for you to have a large gap to anyone else. Hey Stanley, they don’t make the camera you want for what you are trying to do. What does he do? Spend his own money and solve an equation himself.

BL was in his prime, among 4 films. 2001, BL, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket. A space flick that changed the industry. A period piece that has no peer with Alcott winning an Oscar for cinematography, and the use of NASA Zeiss lenses. A horror film that changed the genre. And a war film with a mark among war films that is just Kubrick.

A good exercise during these times with little to no new “films”. Go rent Kubrick’s work. Start at the beginning through Eyes Wide Shut, and even AI, which he developed and Spielberg stepped in and did, outta respect. Would make a great fortnight. Watch the films, and what I always laugh about is if he chose to pursue cinematography as his career, instead of a director..... We’d have 20 more films. He’d have a stack of worthless trophies, but we would have had more films. Any cinematographer that worked with him got a PhD, and got paid for it.

Now all we need to figure out is which aspect ratio Kubrick intended this movie to be viewed in as not even Kubrick`s team can agree on the issue.

This is now free on YouTube, the entire 2+ hours documentary on Kubrick, going through each film, narrated by Tom Cruise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApEh9Sm4BR0

50mm .7 film lens, wow.