Because I’m an idiot, I didn’t know there was a name for this type of shot. Apparently there is! Fun fact: Even though I write about film for a living, I didn’t go to film school. You probably knew this already, as it is fairly obvious. Even when I’m not like “Wha? There’s a name for that?”

ANYWAY, here’s yet another reminder that Stanley Kubrick makes just about every other filmmaker look like an inept halfwit.

(This video’s fantastic, but like every video made by a film nerd with too much time on their hands, it uses the Requiem for a Dream music, which is now so overplayed that it has zero effect on anyone anywhere. To shake things up—and put a little spring in Stanley’s step—I suggest muting the audio on the Vimeo, and instead soundtracking its visuals with the music from the YouTube I’ve helpfully embedded below. It actually works pretty well? Which is weird.)

With honor and distinction, Erik Henriksen served as the executive editor of the Portland Mercury from 2004 to 2020. He can now be found at henriksenactual.com.

10 replies on “Kubrick and the One-Point Perspective”

  1. Nice work, Erik! That synced up perfectly for me. You may not have a “formal education”, but you sure can mash things together to make filmic beauty.

  4. GOD TIER: Suzuki, Hitchkock, Denis
    HIGH TIER: Tarkovsky, Kaurismaki, Fukasaku, Melville
    MID TIER: Kurosawa, Herzog, Breillat, Lynch
    OVERRATED SHIT TIER: Kubrick, Tarantino, Anderson

  5. @C&B: YOU NEGLECTED TO INCLUDE MICHAEL BAY IN YOUR GOD TIER. THAT IS UNPARDONABLE. ALSO, WHY DIDN’T YOU COME SAY HELLO AFTER HECKLEVISION? THAT TOO IS UNPARDONABLE.

  6. @ cat:

    hitchcock, really? i would have him and kubrick switch places in your list…..and then switch tarantino and anderson with lynch…..(did you mean wes or p.t. anderson? — the latter is easily in the god tier)…..

    herzog goes in the high tier…..gallo needs to be added to the mid tier, and the coens need to be added to the overrated shit tier.

    and obviously, as graham noted, bay needs to be added to the god tier.

  7. @ Graham, I was drunk and my wife had the keys. I also don’t know what you look like.

    @ Human, Wes Anderson of course. And obviously this list could go on and on because OPINIONS. And mostly I’m being a grump. And Gallo hasn’t done enough to be in the Hall of Champions. Coens are pretty much in Wes Anderson territory, starting their career in God Mode and here we are now in Babby Mode.

  8. i know — fucking opinions:

    “…in all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” — twain

    so, then, i assume you agree with the opinion (fact) that p.t. anderson is in the god’s-god tier?

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