Much
has been written about Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING in the near thirty-two
years that have transpired since the film's release. Essays have been written opining that the
film is really about the idea of play, and that the members of the Torrance
Family are just the latest participants in a never-ending go-round of Sisyphus-inspired
terror; others have claimed that it is a thinly-veiled dig at white settlers commandeering
the land of the New World from the Native Americans (represented thematically
in the Colorado Lounge in the film); others have made a fuss about mirror
images and the duality of man, a common motif in Kubrick's other works; and still
others consider it to be the horror film's answer to the director's own 2001: A
SPACE ODYSSEY and one's desire to find the key to immortality. Whatever your view of the film is, there is
no denying that it has tremendous staying power and has influenced the lives of
many filmmakers. Two such people are
directors Rodney Ascher and Tim Kirk who have made a new documentary about the
ideas that people have about the film and what they have taken away from
it.
The
film is premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. If you are going to be there and want to see
it, here are is the schedule:
Monday, January 23, noon
Egyptian
Theatre, Park City
Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 p.m.
Broadway
Centre Cinema 6, SLC
Thursday, January 26, 11:30 p.m.
Prospector
Square Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 28, 9:15 p.m.
Holiday
Village Cinema 2, Park City
