Cameras, photography and printing go hand in hand with making motion pictures, and none more so for legendary Stanley Kubrick, famous for his meticulous attention to detail when it came to creating his brilliant movies. From A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), and his final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the stories of his fanatical ways of working are the stuff of legend.
On a Bill Simmons Podcast that’s recently resurfaced, Matt Damon tells this amazing story about The Shining production designer Roy Walker, and Stanley Kubrick’s obsessive, time-consuming and controlling methods to make the perfect film back in 1978-1979. Kubrick used his film camera and 8x10in prints of a model set to perfect the lighting for his full-scale set when shooting the movie, as Damon explains…
