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Room 237
Released: 26/10/2012
Released in key cities.
Ahead of Stephen King's sequel slated for 2013, Stanley Kubrick's brilliant adaptation of The Shining is back - with an extra 24 minutes (a director's cut that's actually worth seeing, we imagine). This related doc explores the decidedly odd ‘hidden' messages that fanatics have found in the 1980 horror classic - a film about a film that manages to be entirely gripping itself.
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Total Film “Treasure troves of intrigue...” Rodney Ascher’s hugely enjoyable docu-collage of Shining theories embraces ambiguity but proves that Kubrick’s deep chiller is worth the revisits. Check in: eyes wide open...
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Time Out“A scrappy, intense doc...” Demands that we look more closely at films, and think about motives and subtexts. And that’s surely a good thing – even if we don’t actually believe that that’s Kubrick’s face up there in the clouds at the beginning of his movie...
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Empire“At once rigorously smart and gloriously bonkers...” Ascher has also assembled a virtuoso collection of clips from all over the place – Mario Bava to Walt Disney, Jesus Christ Superstar to Schindler’s List – as sly counterpoint to the theories ... The whole thing is nutzoid...
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The Independent“Pretty enthralling...” Some films are significant, some achieve significance, and some have significance thrust upon them. Stanley Kubrick's mystery horror film The Shining, first seen in 1980, has generated a cult of interpreters and clue-hunters...
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The Telegraph“Lots of what they say is bonkers; all of it is engrossing...” What is The Shining really about? According to hardcore devotees, Kubrick’s narrative (based on a Stephen King novel) is studded with signs, symbols, clues and allusions, and has been subject to some pretty wild analysis over the years...
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Little White Lies“Room 237 does more than poke fun...” Thankfully, Ascher doesn’t simply lampoon these interpretations – he allows their absurdity to speak for itself while giving us the space to share in his interviewees’ personal eureka moments. At its best, there’s genuine excitement...
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The Observer“A fascinating, nutty, cleverly edited film...” . A picture as riveting as being buttonholed by the Ancient Mariner, it's best visited after seeing the longer, restored version of The Shining that opens next week. The package however should bear King Lear's warning: "That way madness lies"...
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Guardian“An essay in interpretive heresy and critical dissent...” The movie's flaw is that it is sometimes unclear if it really is about The Shining – or merely about cracked and delusional interpreters. But it raises very interesting ideas about how we view a film...
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