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So, I ended up thinking about this picture again this summer as I paid a visit to King's Bangor, Maine home in July. I do love this picture, it carries with it a lot of nostalgia. My wife had never heard King talk about this film and his relationship, or lack thereof, with Kubrick. I played her...

Here's a great article about the picture by the screenwriter Diane Johnson. Lots of great stuff in here including a scene she wrote, that she says was filmed but later cut, that she felt was central to Jack's character and the turn he takes. Also lots of great info on how Kubrick was thinking...

I think that is what the person that detailed the trims meant to imply. I think he or she was detailing what was cut and so what is meant is yes, that whole Gold Room sequence was cut. I was trying to read what the cuts were and imagine them and also think about why these were the things...

So, because I was curious I went and searched for information on the shorter cut. The story on it seems to be that Kubrick was unhappy with how the film was being received by both audiences and critics in the US so, he brought a print to London and screened it for an audience. After the...

So, have you seen the longer cut yet, Alan, and if so, what did you think?

I think that it really depends upon what is cut or added. When home video arrived at DVD and Blu-ray different cuts started to proliferate. It became a fairly regular thing for the home releases to have "theatrical" and "extended" cuts for all kinds of films. It got to the point where they had...

I am fairly certain I have never seen the short European version. I feel like I should track it down and watch it for comparison purposes. I am curious what he cut from it and how it plays in the shorter version. I have read some people saying they think the shorter version is a better more...

I think what they should do with the 4K release is include both versions of the film.

I think how you feel about a film can change over time. I started loving Nicholson in this when I saw it in a cinema. Then at some point when watching it when it had been released on DVD I began to wonder what exactly he was doing in the film and what he was trying to achieve. On the most...

So, another thing I wondered about are the images hanging in Scatman Crother's room in The Shining... This one I believe may have been chosen for the name of the image, it's called Supernatural Dream.

Here are a couple images from the hospital scene.

Are there just cuts or are there additions as well. Josh? Meaning, are there perhaps other scenes inserted or alternative takes used to justify/make the cuts flow better?

On the hospital ending, do you recall, Bruce, if one of the characters told Wendy that Jack Torrance's body was never found?

Yes, I do try to look at Jack Torrance through the glass that as a person he is already psychologically unbalanced and so the hotel both feeds off of and preys on this. Causing his sort of giddy reactions because the hotel welcomes his unbalanced state in a way that makes him feel happy and at...

The exchange below is Roger Ebert talking with Shelley Duvall: "How was it, working with Kubrick?" I asked Duvall 10 years after the experience. "Almost unbearable," she said. "Going through day after day of excruciating work, Jack Nicholson's character had to be crazy and angry all the time...

I have long loved this film. I get a sort of warm giddy joy watching it and I think part of that is nostalgia and part is seeing Jack acting hilariously bat shit crazy. And part is that it is a pretty odd Kubrick film. It strikes me odd though that trapped in this weird hotel where his wife and...

Kubrick once said about acting that interesting is better than real and maybe that's why he chose the takes he did of Nicholson in The Shining. You know Kubrick would have given himself different takes to choose from and if what we see are the takes he selected it makes me wonder what did the...

This scene for Nicholson is all about goofy mugging.

So, last night I watched The Shining again and this is one of those odd pictures that my relationship with and feelings about seem to change over time. I don't know if this happens to any of you but there are some films which as I see them again over the years my thoughts on them continue to...