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Summary: New and Expanded Edition of KUBRICK to be published in April
Review: A new and expanded edition of Thomas Allen Nelson's KUBRICK: INSIDE A FILM ARTIST'S MAZE will be published in April by Indiana University Press. This expanded edition will have new chapters on "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut," as well as a new introduction that reconsiders Kubrick's work as a whole.
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Summary: New edition coming out in April
Review: According to Thomas Nelson himself, a new edition of his book is coming out in April, 2000.
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Summary: One of the better analyses of Kubrick's work
Review: An excellent review/analysis of Kubrick's works. Although occasionally it neglects certain aspects of particular films, I have found it to be one of the most in depth and perceptive looks at the master's films. Nelson discusses not only the thematics which are presented through dialogue and action, but those that are communicated in a strcictly visual sense, ie shot composition, etc. A must for all Kubrick aficionados and students of film.
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Summary: Excellent.
Review: By far the finest book on Kubrick, and one of the best full-length studies of a single director. The new chapters on Full Metal Jacket and especially Eyes Wide Shut are fascinating. I can't say I always agree with Mr. Nelson's take on some things. But the intelligence with which his ideas are set forth make the book more than worth the time and money.
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Summary: Excellent.
Review: By far the finest book on Kubrick, and one of the best full-length studies of a single director. The new chapters on Full Metal Jacket and especially Eyes Wide Shut are fascinating. I can't say I always agree with Mr. Nelson's take on some things. But the intelligence with which his ideas are set forth make the book more than worth the time and money.
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Summary: For Kubrick Fanatics Only
Review: Did you ever wonder why the carpeting in Room 237 in "The Shining" was green and purple? Or why the camera moves on the dolly from left to right in "The Killing"? Or who that artist Ryan O'Neal was referring to during the art-room scene in "Barry Lyndon"? I never did, and I imagine most people don't either. Which is what makes this book so problematic. Stanley Kubrick was a legendary perfectionist, and his work seems to have inspired a similar level of meticulousness in authors who write about him. This book analyzes Kubrick's 10 feature films down to the minutest detail (his first two brief features and "Spartacus," in which he was a director for hire, have been wisely glossed over), and the effect can be a bit stultifying. To be sure, the author comes up with some interesting tid bits about the great filmmaker's work, but just how accurate is all this? Kubrick has been known to pooh-pooh this sort of treatment of his work, and it's easy to see why: In writing about "Full Metal Jacket," Nelson refers to a scene where the character named Cowboy is dying and there's a burning building in the background that looks like the monolith in "2001." The author says that is Kubrick's way of signalling an evolutionary moment. In fact, Kubrick said in a 1987 Rolling Stone interview that the structure's resemblance to the "2001" monolith is just a coincidence. Even more bizarre is the book's near-total absense of any criticism. It is almost entirely descriptive. He mentions in the postscript that "Eyes Wide Shut" is one of Kubrick's "finest achievements" and he criticizes parts of "The Shining" but otherwise fails to note what works and what doesn't in these films. There are some fun parts in this book, but it is weighed down by its leaden prose and heavy-handed academic style.
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Summary: T.A. Nelson a craftsman in his own right.
Review: I have been a student of T.A. Nelson at San Diego State University for the past year and a half, I can assure you that he does want to expand his book to include Kubrick's last two films, and when he does it will be a glorious treat indeed. His passion for film as an art is not only evident in his book, but in his teaching aswell. Thank you Dr. Nelson for your passion and love of film.
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Summary: What's up with that awful blurb?
Review: I was a little surprised to surf to Amazon and read that Kubrick hadn't made a film worth a damn in the last 30 years of his life, so naturally I had to click on the link and see what was going on. I actually read this book several years ago when I was at the height of my fascination with Kubrick, and remember it being quite good if perhaps a little dense at times. The latter may have more to do with my own reading level at that point than any fault of Nelson's (it was around the end of middle school or start of high school for me). It's still on my shelf so I may give it another look sometime.
To say that Eyes Wide Shut was anything less than a stellar film, indeed one of Kubrick's very best, will be laughable in a few more years. The critical reappraisal continues, Kubrick's films always were late bloomers...
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Summary: Interesting insights
Review: I was a student in Dr. Nelson's film class at San Diego State several years ago. At that time, Nelson impressed me and others with his obvious love of the film medium. I recently purchased the 1982 edition of the book, and was again impressed. Yes, Nelson is a professional and at times his style can often seem pedantic and overly academic, but I will probably buy the updated version of the book with the analyses of "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut."
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Summary: Interesting insights
Review: I was a student in Dr. Nelson's film class at San Diego State several years ago. At that time, Nelson impressed me and others with his obvious love of the film medium. I recently purchased the 1982 edition of the book, and was again impressed. Yes, Nelson is a professional and at times his style can often seem pedantic and overly academic, but I will probably buy the updated version of the book with the analyses of "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut."
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