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Thank you!

Took a while to make but like it better than just hanging movie posters. I also made a Wes Anderson (posted in the Wes Anderson subreddit) and working on a Coens tribute as well.

Some other details if you're interested:

- Used https://www.frameiteasy.com to buy a custom blank frame to fit the space; this one was 26x30.

- Got all pics from Google searches, tried to pick out higher rez pics to extent possible

- Used a home digital photo printer with glossy printer paper, kept the white borders on to help 'jigsaw' the pictures together somewhat (had to use scissors sometimes to create that effect if the photos didn't fit neatly on the paper). Used a mix of 8x11 and 5x7s.

- Bought some two-sided tape to affix the pictures to the board in the frame (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WSTYCTQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

Remaining hard part is which Kubrick photos to ultimately use, as there are countless amazing stills to choose from as we all know. Best of luck!

The book I'm talking about is this, but this is the version I have because the first one is French et moi francais est not that good. So there would've been a lot of angry page-turning. Cronenberg is a great interview and commentator that I'll read or listen to anything he says. That's not the Cronenberg geek talking, but there is some Cronenberg geek garnish on it. He speaks very intelligently but isn't afraid to laugh and doesn't take himself too seriously. Tim Burton is the same way (to hear him act like how Batman "should" sound during his "Batman" commentary is priceless). Now that I think about it... most of my favorite directors share that (^cough even Nolan ^cough). Good job, me, for not loving prudes.

In my later years, I think I can sum me up as... a rebel during a midnight dreary. I'd say that I've unconsciously followed what RUN-DMC said (even though I've never heard about it) except it wouldn't be a complete truth. I tend to go out of my way to be unapproachable and that somehow attracts the strangest people. Perfect example: I was at a bar once, carefree as a jellyfish, when an attractive gal comes in (sober), sits near where I was, talks to me for a while, then tells me that one time her ex told her to pee in a cup and then he drank it. Just one of many strange stories my being antisocial has brought me.

You look more grizzled than psychotic in that pic, but not everyone gets a naked hag hugging them out of a hotel room.

I hate how secretive those distribution companies are, although I can understand why they're that way. I've been asking various ones to release Ji-woon Kim's "A Bittersweet Life" as well as Chan-wook Park's "I'm a Cyborg, But That's Ok" and a decent version of "Thirst". "A Bittersweet Life" and "I'm a Cyborg" are both owned globally by Tartan, which has released most of Ji-woon and Chan-wook's films over here, but have been dragging their feet for years. There's a three-disc version of "A Bittersweet Life" doing nothing. The two directors have their first American films coming out this year (Ji-woon Kim with Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to film, "Last Stand", and Chan-wook Park with "Stoker"), so I'm hoping the companies involved are waiting for them to be released and will let those films out of the gate. Universal should be ashamed of itself for how it handled "Thirst". There's a three-disc version of that and Chan-wook Park loves to cram as many special features as he can for his films, yet the American release had nothing, even though it was a US-Korea co-production.

"The Reckless Moment" is tabbed.

1. Pretty much everything from Peter Kramer (University of East Anglia) is worthy:
   
   http://www.puremovies.co.uk/author/peter-kramer/
   
   https://www.uea.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.138319!Publications%20Mr%20Peter%20Kramer.pdf
   
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=peter+kramer
   
   
2. Kubrick Estate's own books:
   
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stanley-Kubrick-Archives-Anniversary-Special/dp/3836508893/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416070674&sr=8-1&keywords=kubrick+archive
   
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stanley-Kubricks-Napoleon-Greatest-Movie/dp/3836523353/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416070738&sr=8-1&keywords=kubrick+napoleon
   
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Stanley-Kubricks-2001-Odyssey/dp/B00MDN82BQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416070753&sr=8-1&keywords=kubrick+2001+taschen
   
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/catalogue-accompanying-exhibition-organised-Filmmuseum/dp/388799079X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416071201&sr=1-2&keywords=stanley+kubrick+catalogue
   
   
3. more great stuff:
   
   http://www.spacearchitect.org/pubs/AIAA-2010-6109.pdf
   
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Projecting-Tomorrow-Science-Fiction-Popular/dp/1780764103/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1416070674&sr=8-16&keywords=kubrick+archive
   
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Well-Meet-Again-Musical-Stanley/dp/0199767661/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&qid=1416070702&sr=8-19&keywords=kubrick+archive
   
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Sound-Filmmakers-Cinema-Routledge/dp/0415898943/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&qid=1416070702&sr=8-26&keywords=kubrick+archive
   
   http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JFM/article/view/10726
   
   EDIT: three more, forthcoming:
   
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Stanley-Kubricks-Barry-Lyndon/dp/1441198075/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1416070674&sr=8-6&keywords=kubrick+archive
   
   http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16352-1/plastic-reality
   
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stanley-Kubrick-Perspectives-Tatjana-Ljujic/dp/1908966424/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416071138&sr=1-1&keywords=stanley+kubrick+perspectives

Not so much an academic book, but stunning to look at-

http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Kubrick-Archives-Alison-Castle/dp/3836508893/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312966128&sr=1-1

Got it for Christmas a few years ago. Beautiful book.

Last winter, I read a fascinating book called The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's a selection of material from the time, and covers the entire production from Clarke's and Kubrick's first meeting to the legacy the film has left.

It's not written by a single author, but edited from various texts, interviews, and anecdotes.

I know you may have been looking for more of a general collection instead of a specific film study, but its detail is fascinating.

I think overall this one by Vincent LoBrutto is your best bet

Stanley Kubrick, Director is very thorough.

http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Kubrick-Director-Visual-Analysis/dp/0393321193/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312959090&sr=8-1

The Stanley Kubrick Archives is great too.

Stanley Kubrick - LoBrutto

The Stanley Kubrick Archives - TASCHEN

KUBRICK - Ciment

Kubrick - Baxter

A Life In Pictures

Kubrick: Herr

It's fucking enormous, BTW

When it comes to editing, check out Pudovkin's writings. Stanley spoke highly of him.

The Napoleon book was re-released at a lower price point:

http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Kubricks-Napoleon-Greatest-Movie/dp/3836523353

Instead of multiple small books inside one box, everything is combined into one volume.

Hi bizzle. While there are numerous histories of the FBI, varying from the most obsequious and hagiographical to more objective and critical analyses based on the actual documented record, one recent history worth considering is "The FBI and the KKK: A Critical History", the subject matter of which is evident from the title: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Ku Klux Klan share a long and complicated history. Beginning with their first confrontation in 1922, this book examines the similarities, covert collaborations and common goals of the FBI and the KKK. After briefly describing the history of each, it explores the development of their association and the specific ways in which each organization furthered the other's goals. The book traces eighty years of parallel development and the conservative attitudes that, astonishingly, drew the FBI and the KKK together."

But we can go back further than that analysis, back to the FBI's predecessor, the BOI (Bureau of Investigation), which underwent a massive expansion in 1910 in order to implement in a perversely over-zealous way, the sexist and racist and bizarrely titled "White Slave Act" (otherwise known as the Mann Act of 1910). In addition to its implicit racism (ignoring the pervasive black enslavement at that time), it was actually about a hysteria in relation to women gaining more independence and autonomy after the Suffragettes, an attempt to confine white women to domestic enslavement (as with blacks), independent women being dismissed as "loose women" or worse, criminalized as prostitutes. The expansion of a fledgling FBI led to the psychotic implementation of that Act's provisions with a demented sexist zeal. And all this even before the 48 years rule of the notoriously reactionary and paedophilic J Edgar Hoover arrived on the scene in the 1920s.

As for the FBI's relationship to the racist far right and the KKK, that is continuing right up to the present day, as this very recent article makes clear:
"Revealed: FBI investigated civil rights group as 'terrorism' threat and viewed KKK as victims

Bureau spied on California activists, citing potential ‘conspiracy’ against the ‘rights’ of neo-Nazis":

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/01/sacramento-rally-fbi-kkk-domestic-terrorism-california
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Going back further again in history, the entirely private agency that was the proto-type of the FBI was the mobster-linked and classist/anti-union cabal of gangsters called the private Pinkerton Detective Agency that originated in the mid-19th century. Government, government and state agencies, and private corporations, industrialists, oligarchs, hired Pinkerton (it still exists today but is called Securitas AB) as armed thugs to spy on and infiltrated unions and worker organisations (recall John Sayles' film Matewan that portrays a well-known confrontation between Pinkerton thugs and workers)