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‘Shine On — The Forgotten Shining Location’: A Documentary Meditation on Stanley Kubrick’s Rooms of Fear
A documentary made in cooperation with the Kubrick estate meditates on how the director created "The Shining's" physical space.
But I saw it the night it opened — on May 23, 1980 — and have seen it a dozen times since, and while the film’s mood and mysteries have deepened for me, to the point that I find it a uniquely seductive piece of cinema, I have always had the same problem with it, going back to that very first viewing. But that shell is really the most unnerving thing about “The Shining.” I realized how deeply the experience of the movie had touched my subconscious when the documentary stated that “The Shining” was shot almost entirely at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England, and my reptile-brained reaction was, “What? Yet my sense-memory told me that the Overlook — the psychedelic maze carpets, the creamy walls and ceilings, the cavernous lobby with its chandeliers and staircase — was too solid and imposing to be a mere set.
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