Must-watch!! Channel 4 Takes You on a Tracking Shot Tour of Stanley Kurbrick's THE SHINING!!
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Beaks here... To promote their forthcoming season of Stanley Kubrick films (scheduled to coincide with the late director's eightieth birthday on July 26th), Channel 4 has done something quite insane. They've meticulously recreated the set of THE SHINING for a sixty-five-second, behind-the-scenes tracking shot. It's an appropriately obsessive gesture - one that Kubrick himself would've ...
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The Spirit of Kubrick Shines On in UK TV Advert
Published 7/4/2008 by William Goss at Cinematical
... almost like they Overlook-ed nothing... (No? Too much? Apologies all around then.)
I'm having trouble ascertaining whether or not Channel 4 was also responsible for this live-action opening to 'The Simpsons' that popped up a few years back. Even if it's not, the fact still remains that precious few American commercials can claim to be their equal in both fondness and dedication. Alas, until Spike someday hosts a Joe Eszterhas tribute marathon...
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