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Making 'The Shining'
Making 'The Shining'
Making 'The Shining'
1980
Documentary
35m
Arena - Season: 6, Episode: 1 - All Episodes
A look behind the scenes during the making of "The Shining".

Directed by:

Vivian Kubrick
Vivian-Kubrick
1 total credit
Vivian Kubrick has just 1 credit at Criticker: Making 'The Shining'

Starring:

Jack Nicholson
Jack-Nicholson
79 total credits
Jack Nicholson has been nominated for 12 Academy Awards, and he's won three times. His crooked leer and wild-man attitude are famous, but Nicholson is also known as a powerful dramatic actor... (who2.com)
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Shelley Duvall
Shelley-Duvall
32 total credits
Shelley Duvall has 32 credits at Criticker, including: The Shining, Annie Hall, Time Bandits, Roxanne and McCabe & Mrs. Miller
,
James Mason
James-Mason
131 total credits
James Neville Mason (15 May 1909 - 27 July 1984) was an English actor who attained stardom in both British and American films. Mason remained a powerful figure in the industry throughout his career and was nominated for three Academy Awards as well as three Golden Globes (winning once)...(Wikipedia)
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Danny Lloyd
Danny-Lloyd
3 total credits
Danny Lloyd has 3 credits at Criticker, including: The Shining, Making 'The Shining' and Filmworker
,
Scatman Crothers
Scatman-Crothers
53 total credits
Born Benjamin Sherman Crothers in Terre Haute, Indiana. Songwriter, actor, composer, singer, comedian and guitarist who, after high school, appeared in nightclubs, hotels, films and on television. He joined ASCAP in 1959, and his popular-song compositions also include "The Gal Looks Good", "Nobody Knows Why", "I Was There", "A Man's Gotta Eat" and "When, Oh When". Scatman Crothers died at age 76 of pneumonia and lung cancer at his home in Van Nuys, California on November 22, 1986.
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley-Kubrick
35 total credits
Stanley Kubrick was an influential and acclaimed film director and producer considered among the greatest of the 20th century. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial films. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the variety of genres in his movies and his reclusiveness about his films and personal life.
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Brian W. Cook
Brian-W-Cook
3 total credits
Brian W. Cook has 3 credits at Criticker, including: Equilibrium, Color Me Kubrick and Making 'The Shining'
,
Gert Kubrick
Gert-Kubrick
1 total credit
Gert Kubrick has just 1 credit at Criticker: Making 'The Shining'
,
Leon Vitali
Leon-Vitali
7 total credits
Leon Vitali has 7 credits at Criticker, including: Barry Lyndon, Little Children, Making 'The Shining', Filmworker and Victor Frankenstein

Genre:

Documentary

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Making 'The Shining'

1980
Documentary
35m
Avg Percentile 59.28% from 223 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

(223)
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Rated 11 Sep 2009
7
68th
Pretty cool to see it but nothing remarkable. Would've liked to have seen a Kubrick interview in there somewhere. I mean, interviewing Danny Lloyd but not Kubrick? Come on.
Rated 29 Mar 2018
70
82nd
Need more...
Rated 16 Mar 2010
70
37th
Interesting behind the scenes stuff. It's particularly fun to watch Kubrick at work, as we rarely get to see him do what he does. He really seemed to be pissed at Shelly Duvall a lot.
Rated 23 Jul 2022
60
36th
Parts of this are interesting, as a you-are-there moment before some of the intense scenes. But there's a lot of mumbling, and there's really too much of the movie split in. Best moment: the crew, about to film the sequence in the maze, are themselves wrestling with a labyrinth of hallways to the various sets.
Rated 28 Nov 2016
7
22nd
As a documentary, this more or less sucks. This is pretty much an EPK - cast interviews that don't shed a lot of light on the production, as well as clips from the movie that of course we've all seen. However, what makes this movie special is that, aside from the Full Metal Jacket clips in the "Stanley Kubrick's Boxes" doc, this is the only meaningful onset footage we have of Kubrick. Not "good" by any means, but who cares - we get to watch the Great Master at work.
Rated 23 Mar 2016
65
47th
More of a collection of behind the scenes footage (which is great) rather than a documentary (for which it lacks any sort of message or narrative).
Rated 23 Dec 2012
68
43rd
Vivian Kubrick at least got close, seeing some on board direction by Stanley makes this worth a watch. Scatman's bizarre show of emotion to a relatively simple question is another a highlight. Fucking actors.
Rated 29 Feb 2012
76
63rd
An interesting glimpse into Kubrick's working methods at his most methodical. Worth it if you're a fan.
Rated 09 Nov 2011
74
49th
Nice to see a 'behind the scenes' that scraps the usual pat-on-the-back self-gloating to cast the film-maker in not such a bright light. For it's short time-length, why not see it?
Rated 13 Jun 2011
70
52nd
Some interesting looks at the cast and crew at work (I like how Nicholson was getting himself hyped up for the door-axing scene) but there's not enough, and its short running time is padded with a few long clips from the film.
Rated 26 May 2011
75
63rd
It's not the Shining, but watching Kubrick work, and seeing a behind the scenes look at a much, much younger Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall was pretty fucking awesome. God, it seemed as if Kubrick fucking hated Duvall.
Rated 28 Mar 2011
2
39th
Poor Shelley.
Rated 27 Sep 2010
73
36th
Behind the scenes footage like this is always a treat, especially for such a big film, but other than glimpses at the styles of each of the principles it's not particularly revelatory.
Rated 02 Sep 2010
75
65th
Great footage of, among other things, Nicholson keeping himself psyched up between takes.
Rated 16 Sep 2009
3
45th
A nice behind-the-scenes peek. If only it were longer.

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Vivian Kubrick
Vivian-Kubrick
1 total credit
Vivian Kubrick has just 1 credit at Criticker: Making 'The Shining'

Starring:

Jack Nicholson
Jack-Nicholson
79 total credits
Jack Nicholson has been nominated for 12 Academy Awards, and he's won three times. His crooked leer and wild-man attitude are famous, but Nicholson is also known as a powerful dramatic actor... (who2.com)
,
Shelley Duvall
Shelley-Duvall
32 total credits
Shelley Duvall has 32 credits at Criticker, including: The Shining, Annie Hall, Time Bandits, Roxanne and McCabe & Mrs. Miller
,
James Mason
James-Mason
131 total credits
James Neville Mason (15 May 1909 - 27 July 1984) was an English actor who attained stardom in both British and American films. Mason remained a powerful figure in the industry throughout his career and was nominated for three Academy Awards as well as three Golden Globes (winning once)...(Wikipedia)
,
Danny Lloyd
Danny-Lloyd
3 total credits
Danny Lloyd has 3 credits at Criticker, including: The Shining, Making 'The Shining' and Filmworker
,
Scatman Crothers
Scatman-Crothers
53 total credits
Born Benjamin Sherman Crothers in Terre Haute, Indiana. Songwriter, actor, composer, singer, comedian and guitarist who, after high school, appeared in nightclubs, hotels, films and on television. He joined ASCAP in 1959, and his popular-song compositions also include "The Gal Looks Good", "Nobody Knows Why", "I Was There", "A Man's Gotta Eat" and "When, Oh When". Scatman Crothers died at age 76 of pneumonia and lung cancer at his home in Van Nuys, California on November 22, 1986.
,
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley-Kubrick
35 total credits
Stanley Kubrick was an influential and acclaimed film director and producer considered among the greatest of the 20th century. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial films. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the variety of genres in his movies and his reclusiveness about his films and personal life.
,
Brian W. Cook
Brian-W-Cook
3 total credits
Brian W. Cook has 3 credits at Criticker, including: Equilibrium, Color Me Kubrick and Making 'The Shining'
,
Gert Kubrick
Gert-Kubrick
1 total credit
Gert Kubrick has just 1 credit at Criticker: Making 'The Shining'
,
Leon Vitali
Leon-Vitali
7 total credits
Leon Vitali has 7 credits at Criticker, including: Barry Lyndon, Little Children, Making 'The Shining', Filmworker and Victor Frankenstein

Genre:

Documentary

Country:

USA

Language:

English
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