Room 237 : being an inquiry into The shining in 9 parts / IFC Midnight & Highland Park Classics present ; produced by Tim Kirk ; directed by Rodney Ascher.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Ascher, Rodney, director, director.
• Kirk, Tim, producer, producer.
• Weidner, Jay, interviewee.
• Ryan, John Fell, interviewee.
• Snipes, Jonathan, 1980- composer.
• Hutson, William (Composer), composer.
• Kearns, Juli, interviewee.
• Cocks, Geoffrey, 1948- interviewee.
• Blakemore, Bill, interviewee.
• Caretakers (Musical group), composer.
• IFC Films, producer.
• IFC Midnight (Firm), producer.
• Highland Park Classics (Firm), producer.
• MPI Media Group, distributor.

Language:

• English
• Spanish

Subjects (All):

• Kubrick, Stanley.
• Shining (Motion picture).
• Horror films--History and criticism.
• Horror films.
• Horror films--Interviews.

Genre:

• Interviews.
• Documentary films.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 2 videodiscs (approximately 102 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
• 4 3/4 in.

Edition:

Two-disc special edition; widescreen version.

Other Title:

Room Two hundred thirty-seven

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : IFC Films : Distributed by MPI Media Group, [2013]

Language Note:

In English with optional Spanish subtitles and optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).

System Details:

• DVD; Region 1; anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1; NTSC.
• digital optical surround
• laser optical NTSC
• video file DVD video Region 1

Summary:

In 1980 Stanley Kubrick released his masterpiece of modern horror, The Shining. Over 30 years later we're still struggling to understand its hidden meanings. Rodney Ascher's wry and provocative documentary fuses fact and fiction through interviews with both fanatics and scholars, creating a kaleidoscopic deconstruction of Kubrick's still-controversial classic.

Participant:

Interviews with: Bill Blakemore, Geoffrey Cocks, Juli Kearns, John Fell Ryan, Jay Weidner.

Credits:

Music, Jonathan Snipes & William Hutson and the Caretaker.

Notes:

• Originally produced as a documentary film in 2012.
• "Neither this film, nor any view or opinion expressed in it, nor the context in which film footage and images are used, is approved of endorsed by, or is in any way associated with, they Kubrick 1981 Trust, Stanley Kubrick's family, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., or anyone else connected with the making of the motion picture 'The Shining' ("'The Shining' Filmmakers"). The views and opinions expressed in this documentary film are solely those of the commentators in it and do not reflect the views of Stanley Kubrick or 'The Shining' filmmakers."--Container.
• Special features: The mstrmnd [mastermind] speaks: commentary with Kevin McLeod; Secrets of 'The Shining': Panel discussion from the First Annual Stanley Film Festival; 11 deleted scenes; The making of the music featurette; Mondo poster design discussion with artist Aled Lewis; Trailer; trailer, Alternate trailers.

ISBN:

• 0788617125
• 9780788617126

OCLC:

854579016

Publisher Number:

• 030306987996
• IFC9879 IFC Films