04w14:3 Stanley Kubrick Posted April 3rd, 2004 by timothy. 1 Comment Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 14 number 3 (Stanley Kubrick) ——————————————————————— Citizen Kubrick | Jon Ronson http://tinyurl.com/2sqt9 “Two years after his death, Jon Ronson was invited to the Kubrick estate and let loose among the fabled archive. He was looking for a solution to the mystery […] There are boxes everywhere – shelves of boxes in the stable block, rooms full of boxes in the main house. In the fields, where racehorses once stood and grazed, are half a dozen portable cabins, each packed with boxes. These are the boxes that contain the legendary Kubrick archive. […] Towards the end of my time at the Kubrick house, Tony mentions something seemingly inconsequential, but as soon as he says it I realise that the Rosebud I was after – the quintessence of Kubrick – has been staring me in the face from the very first day. From the beginning, I had mentally noted how well constructed the boxes were, and now Tony tells me that this is because Kubrick designed them himself. He wasn’t happy with the boxes that were on the market – their restrictive dimensions and the fact that it was sometimes difficult to get the tops off – so he set about designing a whole new type of box. He instructed a company of box manufacturers, G Ryder & Co, of Milton Keynes, to construct 400 of them to his specifications. ‘When one batch arrived,’ says Tony, ‘we opened them up and found a note, written by someone at G Ryder & Co. The note said, ‘Fussy customer. Make sure the tops slide off.” Tony laughs. I half expect him to say, ‘I suppose we were a bit fussy.’ But he doesn’t. Instead, he says, ‘As opposed to non-fussy customers who don’t care if they struggle all day to get the tops off.’ ” Thanks to Sarah Hollenberg for this article suggestion. —————————————- Long links made short by using TinyURL (http://www.tinyurl.com) To remove or add yourself from this list, email tim@goodreads.ca http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com emailed by Timothy on Saturday 03 April 2004 @ 4:18 PM
08w32:1 Kubrick’s Boxes by Jon Ronson at Goodreads | Timothy Comeau Projects 2004-2008 says: 3 August 2008 at 3:18 pm […] Citizen Kubrick | Jon Ronson http://www.goodreads.ca/shorty/co/kubrick/ “Stanley Kubrick’s films were landmark events – majestic, memorable and richly researched. But, as the years went by, the time between films grew longer and longer, and less and less was seen of the director. What on earth was he doing? Two years after his death, Jon Ronson was invited to the Kubrick estate and let loose among the fabled archive. He was looking for a solution to the mystery – this is what he found.” (Previously in Goodreads 04w13:3) […]
