When can we expect the other artwork?

I'm antsy. :D

Of all the movies I've seen in my entire life, Barry Lyndon is, by far, the best looking one. Every single frame is absolutely perfect. The great story and acting is almost like an afterthought to the composition and lighting.

I held off buying Lyndon because I was waiting for an SE. And now there might not be one? And since it's a three hour movie, any (video) extras would really have to go on a second disc. maybe we can at least get a commentary.

Barry Lyndon and Lolita are being re-re-re-released on the same day... Just not as part of the box.

Rizor - Do you have a source on the no new transfers for BL and Lolita? I was really hoping that they would be anamorphic this time around. But, I suppose common sense would dictate that if they were then they would be a part of the box.

How do I check what my overscan is set to? To I set it on my TV or my DVD player? If it matters, I have the Samsung DVD-HD870 and the Olevia LT26HVX.

Not positive that they won't be getting new transfers, but Leon Vitali of the Kubrick Estate confirmed that Barry Lyndon hadn't been remastered in HD in a recent interview. I'm guessing that Lolita hasn't been either considering it's being lumped together with Barry Lyndon as the two films that won't be included in the box. I don't know if not being remastered means not being made anamorphic though. Personally, I'd love it if they were given new transfers and a few extras, but since they're not getting Deluxe Editions like the Full Metal Jacket reissue and are being released without much fanfare, I assume they'll be the same old discs.

I think Barry Lyndon and Lolita are just keep case upgrades.

any word on pricing for the blu-ray boxset? i too can't wait to see the rest of the art work for these films.

I mean Barry Lyndon was shown on HDNet Movies, as to why Warner's is not (yet) releasing this is beyond me.

Wait a sec... They screened Barry Lyndon on HDNet? For the love of... Fo' real?


You need a good setup and test pattern DVD... I use Avia, not sure if Digital Video Essentials has an overscan pattern or not. Like Josh Z said, unless you know how (and are willing) to access your service menus then it's not a user feature on most (all?) displays.

yup... and of course my DV-R even though I had set it to record, didn't :mad:

I've seen tons of HD broadcasts of Kubrick films on the various channels, including HDNET Movies, including 2001, Clockwork Orange, FMJ, and EWS, and - I think - Barry Lyndon. But I can't recall for certain. Giles, are you certain? (And I certainly hope you are!)

BTW, "Taxi Driver" debuts in HD on Sunday.

according to several sources it was shown actually three times on HDNet Movies last Fall:

Barry Lyndon
6:30 AM ET / 3:30 AM PT - Sun, Sep 24th
9:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM PT - Sun, Oct 8th
4:05 AM ET / 1:05 AM PT - Mon, Oct 9th

Barry Lyndon

according to this weblink there was even a Feb. 2005 airing:

HDNet Programming Highlights -February 2005


Question: was the HD airings of 'Eyes Wide Shut' you saw the R-rated cut?

i'm sure its been listed, but i dont feel like going through 13 pgs.

what are the extras on 2001 and Shining?

and the framing on the Shining? WS or 4:3?

well if it's like what I watched on Cinemax HD last Sunday night - it's widescreen.

1.66:1 for The Shining was posted earlier in this thread.

So let me get this straight, they've screened Barry Lyndon on HDNet and it's <i>not</i> going to be a part of the box and the speculation is that the same day re-re-re-release is <i>not</i> going to be anamorphic. Well now, that's interesting.

I saw parts of BL on HDNet. Looked pretty good, but nothing like 2001 which was spectacular.

"interesting" isn't the word I'd use - more like a kick in the head.

"spectacular" is an understatemet - 1080i on my 1080i TV = awesome! - 1080p for the HiDef release - (thud! my body hitting the floor as I pass out).

Good question, and I don't have the answer. I'd only just purchased and watched the HK disc with the unrated "non CGI masked" orgy sequence, and only flipped by for a few minutes (likely en route to a Red Sox game on NESN).

I watched for a little while to observe the framing (which was 1.78:1), and was just a little distressed to find that I did not care for it nearly as much. In fact, the framing often seemed fairly arbitrary, which was the impression I had when I first saw it screened at the theater, which I then blamed on the projectionist - or mechanical substitute thereof - who also failed to turn down the house lights for the first 5-10 minutes (my friend went to the lobby to find the manager as I refused to miss a moment!)

Of course, all this brings back my hopes that these editions - particularly the HD versions with tons of disc space - would include both framings for those movies where there's a controversy about the aspect ratio. Sadly, I see this will not be the case.

That's what I was hoping for too. The vertical imagery in The Shining is way too good to be matted. :(

Here ye, here ye:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award-winning achievement (Special Visual Effects) is an allegorical puzzle on the evolution of man and a compelling drama of man vs. machine. Featuring a stunning meld of music and motion, the film was also Oscar® nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits the prehistoric age-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.

DVD Special Features:

Disc One

· Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood

· Theatrical trailer

Disc Two

· Channel 4 documentary: 2001: The Making of a Myth

· Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

· Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

· 2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future

· 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork

· Look: Stanley Kubrick!

· Audio-only interview with Stanley Kubrick

· Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Stomping, whopping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time – at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Kubrick’s future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess’ novel. Controversial when first released, the film garnered three Academy Award nominations – Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Its power still entices, shocks and mesmerizes today.

DVD Special Features:

Disc One

· Commentary by Malcolm McDowell and historian Nick Redman

· Theatrical trailer

Disc Two

· Channel 4 documentary: Still Tickin’: The Return of Clockwork Orange

· New featurette: Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making A Clockwork Orange

· Career profile: O Lucky Malcolm!

· Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Kubrick’s daring and controversial last film is a bracing psychosexual journey through a haunting dreamscape, a riveting suspense tale and a career milestone for stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cruise plays a doctor who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage – and may ensnare him in a murder mystery – after his wife’s (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. His graceful tracking shots, rich colors and startling images are some of the bravura traits that show Kubrick as a filmmaker for the ages.

DVD Special Features:

Disc One

· Scene specific commentary by Sydney Pollack and historian Peter Loewenberg

· Theatrical trailer and TV spots

Disc Two

· Channel 4 documentary: The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut

· Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

· Kubrick’s 1998 DGA D.W Griffith Award acceptance speech

· Interview gallery featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Steven Spielberg

· Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

A superb ensemble falls in for Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers. The scathing indictment of a film was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Screenplay. Joker (Matthew Modine), Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Gomer (Vincent D’Onofrio), Eightball (Dorian Harewood) and Cowboy (Arliss Howard) are some of the Marine recruits experiencing boot-camp hell under the punishing command of the foul-mouthed Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermy). The action is savage, the story unsparing, and the dialogue is spiked with scathing humor.

DVD Special Features:

· Commentary by Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and Jay Cocks

· New Featurette: Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil

· Theatrical trailer

· Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

The Shining (1980)

From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre. The Shining is the director’s epic tale of a man in a snowbound hotel descending into murderous delusions. In a signature role, Jack Nicholson (“Heeeere’s Johnny!”) stars as Jack Torrance, who’s come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd).

DVD Special Features:

Disc One

· Commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter

· Theatrical trailer

Disc Two

· Documentary The Making of the Shining, with optional commentary by Vivian Kubrick

· Three new featurettes: View from The Overlook: Crafting the Shining, The Visions of Stanley Kubrick, and Wendy Carlos, Composer

· Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stanley Kubrick – A Life in Pictures

Produced and directed by longtime Kubrick associate Jan Harlan, this full-length documentary includes footage and personal photographs made available by Christiane Kubrick, the director’s wife of more than 42 years. The film paints a surprisingly accessible portrait of Kubrick, giving a strikingly different view of the man and what influenced him as a filmmaker. Among the long list of actors, friends and colleagues paying tribute are Woody Allen, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Shelley Duvall, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Christiane Kubrick, Paul Mazursky, Malcolm McDowell, Matthew Modine, Jack Nicholson, Alan Parker, Sydney Pollack, Richard Schickel, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Douglas Trumbull and Sir Peter Ustinov.

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Redmond Barry is a young, roguish Irishman who's determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army, fighting in the Seven Years War in Europe, Barry deserts from the British army, joins the Prussian army, gets promoted to the rank of a spy, then becomes pupil to a Chevalier and con artist/gambler. Barry then lies, dupes, duels and seduces his way up the social ladder and enters into a lustful but loveless marriage to a wealthy countess named Lady Lyndon, takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in England with wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams, then slowly falls

Lolita (1962)

Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman's 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love, but whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious trickster named Clare Quilty.

GODDAMMIT!

No Arthur C Clarke commentary on 2001? Shit... that's the one thing I wanted more than anything.

I'd also love to have had a Stephen King commentary on The Shining, but that was always a long shot. A very long shot.

Otherwise, these look to be good sets. (I'm assuming that EWS is the NC-17/unrated version, and not the previously released R cut...)

Cool, I'm especially looking forward to the commentaries with Sydney Pollack and Malcolm McDowell.

Well, looks like I can sell my old copy of EWS.

Yikes, that FMJ re-release doesn't look very exciting.
Thanks for that post, btw, PCT.

This set looks awesome!
I cant wait for this. Hopefully sometime down the road we will get special editions of Barry Lyndon and Lolita but this set looks rather good for now.
anybody know anything about the channel 4 documentaries and how long/ in depth they are?