Dan Lloyd, former child actor, reminisces about playing Danny in The Shining.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 51
Danny the kid
Dan the adult (photo by Anthony Taafe)
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Andy Newman from The New York Times and performer Fran Pado discuss Hallorann’s death fixation, validate “redrum” as a gimmick, and bonus: We have our first guest who was too scared to make it through the movie!
Download the file here: Shining Episode 49
The Shining-like scene begins at 1:25:27 and ends at 1:26:14
Early Scatman Crothers, Yes, Sir, Mr. Bones (1951)
More early Scatman!
Horror film in which Fran makes an appearance.
You can see Fran here at exactly 1:09, on the right.
A Scary Santas compilation I put together.
A transcribed (with clips) version of my Kevin Geek’s Out presentation on The Meaning of Christmas.
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Lee Unkrich discusses his upcoming book on The Shining, deleted scenes, and reveals the actor who was supposed to play Lloyd.
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The ax scene in Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage (1921)
The ax scene in D.W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms (1919) is from 1:17:00 until 1:18:05
The movie that scared the bejeezus out of a young Lee Unkrich
Mental Floss’s Nine The Shining References Buried in Pixar Films
SlashFilm’s Pixar’s Coco is filled with The Shining References
Lee Unkrich’s amazing website The Overlook Hotel
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Jewish film scholar Nathan Abrams discusses the Jewishness of Kubrick, his Nazi family connections, and the lost script Burning Secret.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 46
Guest Nathan Abrams’ article in The Forward about the Jewishness of 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Director Vincenzo Natali discusses the surprising Canadian-ness of The Shining, the business of horror, and his own King adaptation.
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Alex Colville painting, Horse and Train, found in the Torrance’s Boulder apartment
Alex Colville painting, Woman and Terrier, found in the Torrance’s Boulder apartment
Alex Colville painting, Moon and Cow, found on the stairway as Wendy climbs near the end of the film
Alex Colville painting, Dog, Boy and St. John River, found in room 237
Article about Canadian artist Alex Colville in Unwinnable
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Gaylord Fields watches The Shining for the first time and discusses his aversion to horror, the Magical Black Man, and the alarming lack of winter coats at The Overlook.
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Gaylord’s legendary talk on fake Beatles
Trailer for Matinee (1993)
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Megan Dooley is back to discuss Stanley vs. Winkle, old-timey cinema, and personal horror stories, including a monster sarcoma.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 43
Photos from my visit to The Cinema Museum, London
Possibly the oldest of Willis O’Brien’s animations (1915).
Armature of one of the ape puppets from King Kong (1933)
Blood Freak (1972)
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Elstree historian Howard Berry discusses secrets from the Archive, fantasy films at Elstree, and that Kubrick cameo in Eyes Wide Shut.
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A tour of Elstree and Kubrick’s old neighborhood with Howie Berry.
Filming from one angle of the famous stairs scene.
Howie’s Elstree Project YouTube page:
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Kubrick scholar Catriona McAvoy discusses meeting Diane Johnson, amazing ideas that were tossed, and sex in The Shining.
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Some of Catriona’s work can be found at Discovering Kubrickism.
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The guys from Star Wars Minute drop by to ponder alternate Jacks, alternate typewritten sentences, and the horror in Star Wars.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 40
The Wrong Reel episode about Creepy Kids
The original 1973 made-for-TV version of the movie that scared the bejeezus out of Alex
Parody episode with Kevin Maher and Joe Dator
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Kubrick expert Justin Bozung discusses some of the 70-something Kubrick-oriented interviews he’s conducted, as well the true meaning of coyotes and roadrunners.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 39
The book chock full of Justin’s interviews:
Still searching for an identification for this album, found on Durkin’s desk at the auto body shop!
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Recorded in the lobby of The Stanley Hotel, the inspiration for King’s novel and set of the infamous 1997 miniseries!
Download the file here: Shining Episode 38
Our visit to The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO.
More clips from the 1997 miniseries, including Sam Raimi’s cameo, can be found here.
Album cover on Durkin’s desk.
Close-up of album.
The MOVIES BY MINUTES website.
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Father David Mowry is here to cast the demons from this podcast and discuss the intimate and inevitable ties between horror and Catholicism, in both reality and fantasy.
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Norval Morrisseau “The Great Mother”
The Continental Airlines “meatball” design by Saul Bass
The United Airlines “tulip” design, also by Bass.
St. Lucy
St. Agatha
St. Bartholomew draped in his own skin
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Joe Dator is back to discuss the adorable Vivian, scary kid shows, and Tony’s spooky voice.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 36
New lost footage of Elstree Studios, including a Kubrick interview!
Interviewer Junichi Yaoi doing his UFO thing.
Trailer for Piers Haggard’s “Venom” (1981)
SCREENPLAY FOR NAPOLEON, BY STANLEY KUBRICK
Shelley Duvall’s “Mother Goose Rock n’ Rhyme” (1990)
Boohbah
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Adam Howard from Full Frontal with Sam Bee and the Never Seen It podcast discusses the N-word, the odd story arc of Mr. Hallorann, and the awkwardness of the men’s room.
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One of Adam Howard’s depictions of The Shining.
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Jon Solomon from WPRB and Brian Dupre discuss the denizens of the ballroom, Ewan McGregor playing Danny Torrance, and we review Hereditary.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 31
Click here for my essay on the Kubrick movie vs. the miniseries.
Jon’s side-by-side Cheers comparison.
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Writer and podcaster Molly Lambert from the Night Call and Molly’s Sleazy Friends discusses everything Shelley, including her magical fairie tale kingdom on cable, as we watch Jack shifts into Scary Dad mode.
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The very first Shelley Duvall’s Fairie Tale Theatre episode, with Robin Williams and Terri Garr.
Paul Reubens as Pinocchio
Shelley Duvall’s American Tall Tales and Legends: John Henry, starring Danny Glover, Tom Hulce, Thelma Houston, and Lou Rawls.
The horrifying Popples
Punk rock Popples
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Gena Radcliffe from the Kill by Kill podcast and Megan Dooley stop by discuss the bathtub lady, an embarrassing fan theory about Jack, and King’s other big movies.
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Fake book cover images coming soon…
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We zoom from a bachelor pad in Florida to a bathroom in Colorado, hitting the midpoint of the movie on the way there. We ponder paintings and Peter Sellers, and Jack is finally terrified…until he’s not.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 28
Peter Sellers “A Hard Day’s Night”
Peter Sellers “Can’t Buy Me Love”
Peter Sellers “She Loves You”
Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren “Goodness Gracious Me”
Showgirls photographed by Stanley Kubrick for Look Magazine
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We are at the halfway point in the podcast series, so it seems a fine time to put together a sampler of funny, interesting and philosophical bits from the podcast. Enjoy! And please pass it around!
Guests from the first half include:
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Jonny Coleman stops by to set Jack on his way to that room, and we visit another colorful bedroom in Florida, where we will discover a nod to Peter Sellers, a podcast exclusive!
Download the file here: Shining Episode 27
“Supernatural Dreams” poster featuring Azizi Johari.
Screenshot of the album at the foot of Hallorann’s bed.
The album cover for Steeley Span’s “Commoners Crown”
Here’ s the other album stack at the foot of Hallorann’s bed. Can you name the album?
The Caretaker’s first album, ‘”Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom” (1999)
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Download the file here: Shining Episode 26
Marcus Pinn from Pinnland Empire and Zebras in America and The New Yorker’s Joe Dator discuss the Portlands, the white man’s burden, and we ponder if any other actor could have played Jack.
One of the few obscure Turkel clip I could find. The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
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Tasha Robinson and Bob Koester step up to Lloyd’s bar and talk about the wonderful Mr. Turkel, how he and Jack messed with Stanley, and why Jack owes Joe from waaaaaay back.
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On the set, with Joe, Jack and Stanley.
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Cabin in the Woods “Cabin Minute Cast” host Heidi Bennett joins with Megan Dooley to talk female roles in horror films, authenticity in The Shining, and the debut of Dummy Danny.
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Trailer for Suspiria (1977) [NB: Graphic!]
Trailer for The Love Witch (2016)
Trailer for Raw (2016)
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Joe Dator is back to discuss the (obviously) fake moon landing, Jack’s moment of clarity, and The Shining cameo in Ready Player One.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 23
Launchpad 39A, from which the Apollo 11 was launched.
Fake confession from fake Stanley Kubrick on the fake moon landing.
Joe Dator and I review Ready Player One on my Patreon site.
James Hancock from Wrong Reel reflects on Nicholson’s fatherly performance, Kubrick’s meticulousness, and that goddamn pink tennis ball.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 22
Wrong Reel’s amazing episode on Full Metal Jacket can be found here.
My Kevin Geeks Out talk on The Shining miniseries can be found here.
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Joe Dator from The New Yorker discusses one of the most iconic scenes in movie history, along with an exploration of scary Brits and inappropriate television.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 20
Scene from The Innocents (1961) with Deborah Kerr, directed by Jack Clayton.
The New Yorker cartoonist Paul Noth’s twins cartoon
Wendy and Danny’s entertainment for the afternoon.
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Listener and Patreon subscriber Brian Dupre, along with Megan Dooley, discusses Wendy in yellow, a mysterious red book, and a couple of gals in blue.
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A book on Stuart Ullman’s desk at the beginning of The Shining, clearly titled Red Book. Is it possible this was meant to be Carl Jung’s mysterious “Red Book”?
Pages from Carl Jung’s “The Red Book,” also known as “Liber Novus.”
Illustrations from Carl Jung’s “The Red Book”
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Stewart Thorndike, who played Nuala in Eyes Wide Shut and is a horror movie writer and director (Lyle), discusses Wendy’s problematic situation, what’s missing in horror films, and what it was like to act for Kubrick.
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Part one of Rob Ager’s essay about the possible gold standard theme in The Shining
Trailer for Lyle (2015) written and directed by our guest, Stewart Thorndike
An extended interview with Stewart Thorndike about her experience acting for Kubrick in Eyes Wide Shut will be available on Patreon in March.
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Musicologist Jonathan Stern discusses the stunning soundtrack to The Shining, how the overhead maze scene was shot, plus Kubrick’s connection to Gilligan’s Island.
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Béla Bartók
György Ligeti
Krzysztof Penderecki
Henry Hall & The Gleneagles Hotel Band
Wendy Carlos
The Vampira Show
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WFMU Midnight Matinee’s John Schnall sat through The Shining fourteen times when it first came out and lived to talk about it 37 years later for this week’s podcast.
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Folk song from Werner Herzog’s Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Commercial from the Keep America Beautiful campaign in the 1970s, with the iconic crying Native American.
John Schnall’s highly experimental, totally nutso Midnight Matinee version of The Shining Polka.
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Elstree Studios film historian Howie Berry dollops out some amazing inside scoops about the elevator of blood, continuity errors, and some scenes we’ll never see.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 14
A map of where everything was filmed at Elstree Studios.
Watching the Vision Assist, which captured each day’s takes with Kubrick having to print the film. (He printed most of them anyway!)
A TV spot with alternate takes never used in the film.
A call sheet from The Shining.
Inspiration for continuity errors in the film?
From Stephen King’s The Shining
Danny lay awake in his bedroom, eyes open…
His glider floated overhead from a string. On his bureau the VW model, brought up from the roadway setup downstairs, glowed a dimly florescent purple. His books were in the bookcase, his coloring books on the desk. A place for everything and everything in its place, Mommy said. Then you know where it is when you want it. But now things had been misplaced. Things were missing. Worse still, things had been added, things you couldn’t quite see, like in one of those pictures that said CAN YOU SEE THE INDIANS? And if you strained and squinted, you could see some of them—the thing you had taken for a cactus at first glance was really a brave with a knife clamped in his teeth, and there were others hiding in the rocks, and you could even see one of their evil, merciless faces peering through the spokes of a covered wagon wheel. But you could never see all of them, and that was what made you uneasy. Because it was the ones you couldn’t see that would sneak up behind you, a tomahawk in one hand and a scalping knife in the other…
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Joe and Megan converse with me about conversations, we neurologically probe the smell of toast, and we are treated to a ditty by Scatman Crothers.
Download the file here: Shining Episode 13
An interview from 1980 with Mick Garris. Scatman sings at about 3:00.
Scatman and Redd Foxx on Sandford and Son in 1975
The coin toss scene in No Country for Old Men(2007), directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, with Javier Bardem and Gene Jones
Orson Welles and James Cotton in The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed.
Peter Boyle and Robert DeNiro in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976)
John Huston and Jack Nicholson in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974)
Toni Collette and Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999), directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The scene really begins (brilliantly) about a minute before this, with Haley’s character telling his mom about a ghost outside the car window. (If anyone has the whole clip, please let me know!)
Martin Landau and Sam Waterson in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Lots of great conversation scenes in Alex Cox’s Repo Man (1984), here with Emilio Estevez and Fox Harris.
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Marcus Pinn from Pinnland Empire and Zebras in America talks with me about this intense scene, plus the stuff that messed with our brains in childhood.
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Trailer for Bob Balaban’s Parents (1989)
Trailer for Elem Klimov’s Come and See (1985)
Marcus refers to this scene from Alan Clarke’s Scum (1979) with Mick Ford and Bill Dean
Marcus refers to this scene in Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008) with Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham
Scene from Richard Attenborough’s Magic (1978) with Anthony Hopkins and Burgess Meredith
Goddamn scary trailer and television commercial (used for both) for Magic
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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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