Some public domain Halloween night programming if anyone still hasn't decided what to watch.












 

Well, here's a nasty Naschy that is on Youtube.



 

Requires sign-in - Ken Russel's Mahler





I think I've previously posted this one, but it's always good to find a good new copy




 

Those goddamn bastards.  (That was the 1927 Napoleon btw.)

Here's some footage I hadn't seen before.  It's raw video for a Japanese TV special about The Shining, shot at Elstree Studios where post-production was taking place, and including a bit of B-roll.  The only part of the footage I'd seen beofre is a snatch of the telephone interview with Kubrick himself, which is now somewhat famous for including what may be his most lucid explanation for the ending of 2001.  But the real gold here is nearly an hour spent with Vivian Kubrick, the lovely young woman of barely 20, who gives a small tour of the Kubrick offices at Elstree and provides some of the most extensisve interview time from her adult life.  It's immediately clear how she was Kubrick's favorite daughter and how heartbreaking it must have been when she joined Scientology and severed ties with her father and family, a heartbreak probably contributing to his death.




 

I don't know what Canadian television looked like at the time, but these videos, even given that they've extracted the actual music for copyright purposes (although you can figure it out if you want to pursue it further), are a potent nostalgia bomb for me personally, so they need to be here, rather than the listening thread (because, you know, the absence of the music), and it still has its charms even if the nostalgia isn't directly connected.  I'm sure you can deal.