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Dec 14, 2012 · 16 min read. Is “ Room 237 ” some kind of crazy joke? Rick Ascher’s much-discussed “ subjective documentary ” features five people who present their theories/interpretations of the “hidden meanings” they say they’ve found in the rooms and corridors of Stanley Kubrick ‘s Overlook Hotel, the setting of his chilly 1980 horror film, “ The Shining.”
Apr 3, 2013 · For Bill Blakemore, the subject of Kubrick’s “Masterpiece of Modern Horror” is the genocidal slaughter of Native Americans by white European settlers; for Geoffrey Cocks, it’s about the Holocaust in Nazi-dominated Europe; for Juli Kearns, it’s an exploration of an impossible, Escher-like maze called the Overlook Hotel.
Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 is an inventive hard to categorize film which turns the difficult trick of becoming its subject. Ostensibly a documentary on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Room 237 is also a new form of film criticism, one which charts a different course than the standard film criticism.
Room 237 is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Rodney Ascher about interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (1980) which was adapted from the 1977 novel of the same name by Stephen King. [4]
Jan 29, 2012 · “Room 237,” the first full-length documentary by the director Rodney Ascher, examines several of the most intriguing of these theories. It’s really about the Holocaust, one interviewee says,...
Room 237: Cinephilia, History, and Adaptation Laura Mee Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012) opens with a sequence which identifies it as a documentary about analysis, nostalgia, and cultural memory, but also as a film constructed from recycled and appropriated texts.
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Oct 14, 2012 · Room 237 is an elegant, enigmatic essay film about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980). This experimental documentary weaves together the voices of five narrators, each of whom passionately believes that Kubrick deliberately buried hidden messages in his 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel.
