
John Cribbs from The Pink Smoke talks about The Shining in the context of horror, and Kubrick in the context of food.
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Trailer for Scalps (1983)
Roald Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter, originally a short story and also adapted and directed by Alfred Hitchcock for Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
The scene that almost got John Cribbs thrown out of a movie theater. “How’d you like some ice cream, Frodo?”
The beautiful Andreas Gursky photo to which John was referring.
Trailer for The Sentinel (1977)
Trailer for The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2017)
Trailer for Toshio Matsumoto’s Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), which influenced A Clockwork Orange.
This is low quality but a prime example of the creepiness of Federico Fellini’s Giulietta degli Spiriti (Juliette of the Spirits) (1965). [NB: On the podcast I mistakenly call it Juliette of the Spring] Bonus: Twins! I suggested this and other Fellini films that contain creepiness were an influence on The Shining, but heck, let’s throw in Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist and most of David Lynch’s stuff as touched by Fellini. WARNING: Super-scary.
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Episode 10: THE COLORADO SIDECAR with cinephile Megan Dooley and Joe Dator from The New Yorker

Megan Dooley and Joe Dator boogie with me through the Gold Room, as we consider other amazing sets in film history.
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The Vandamm House from Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest”
The Manderley estate from Hitchcock’s “Rebecca”
The town of Sweethaven from Robert Altman’s “Popeye”
The set of Orson Welles’s “The Magnificent Ambersons”
One interpretation of the color palette for “The Shining” from Cinema Palettes.
Wendy gif by Joe Dator. Play “The Hustle” as you watch.
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Episode 9: FOOS BALL TWINS with Jon Solomon from WPRB and Joe Dator from The New Yorker

Jon Solomon & Joe Dator play darts with me as we ponder the twins and the Torrance’s new “homey” apartment.
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Statue of a Native American child riding a turkey at the Paramus Park Mall.
Diane Arbus’s “Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967”
Stanley Kubrick’s photo from a Look Magazine essay titled “Deaf Children Hear for the First Time” (1948) [NB: The colorized version also shown was not colored by Kubrick]
The twins’ dresses at the traveling Kubrick exhibit, photo courtesy Tula Jeng from her wonderful site Whorange.
Mrs. Grady’s head, from a scene in “Making ‘The Shining,'” a documentary by Vivian Kubrick. In this scene, Wendy would look in a mirror and see Mrs. Grady behind her, and then the mirror would shatter. [EDIT: This head may, instead, be a make-up test for the bathtub woman.]
Scene from Scorsese’S “Taxi Driver” (1976) in which the camera pans to the side, down a hallway, at about 1:02.
The facade of the Overlook Hotel, under construction
Jon Solomon’s radio show can be heard every Wednesday from 5PM to 8PM on WPRB
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