At Sundance 2012, Matt Goldberg reviews Rodney Ascher's Room 237, a documentary about critical analysis of The Shining. Review by Gabe Powers ★★★★ I mean, I don't personally subscribe to most of these theories, but I do subscribe to the idea that Kubrick was a very fastidious filmmaker who also had a sense of humor. Room 237 opened to general acclaim from critics. Room 237, then, is really about how conspiracy theories and modern myths are created. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 80 based on 30 critics, considered to be "generally favorable reviews".. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times … [This is a re-post of my review from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Many movies lend themselves to dramatic interpretations, but none as rich and far ranging as Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. It currently holds a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 130 critic reviews. Room 237 opens today in limited release and is also available on VOD.] ROOM 237 only scratches the surface.

Rather, it is an examination of the nature of obsession, about how we are capable of convincing ourselves — and possibly others — that just about anything might be true. Room 237, then, is really about how conspiracy theories and modern myths are created. Watched the extras on Disc 2 of the DVD. Read full review It’s certainly the film to which I had the most personal response.

Room 237 review. The most interesting is a panel discussion taped at the Overlook Hotel with Director Mick Garris (the TV Shining mini-series), ROOM 237 Director Rodney Ascher, Kubrick's personal assistant Leon Vitali and the Moon Landing conspiracy guy Jay Weidner. Director: Rodney Ascher.
P.S. A Review of the "Room 237" Soundtrack I love big, symphonic movie scores.

It is a cinematic digest of the work of a corps of people who claim to have found semi-hidden meanings in the film. In that regard, it can be a pretty amusing film, illustrating how the same movie can mean completely different things to people. Room 237: movie review. An ode to movie love at its most deliriously unfettered, “Room 237” is a nonfiction look at some very serious film fans who take “The Shining,” Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 … It is a cinematic digest of the work of a corps of people who claim to have found semi-hidden meanings in the film. An exploration of various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's horror film, The Shining (1980). The all-time master of that art is John Williams, who has been scoring films for nearly sixty years now. Room 237 wanders between being an intriguing curiosity, a convincing revelation, exasperatingly stupid and deadly dull. If you think The Shining is “about a man driven to insane and murderous rage by a haunted hotel,” then you missed the point.

What is "Room 237" really about? P.S. Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining is … According to them, Kubrick stashed "hidden meanings" in the vacancies, hallways, ballrooms, bathrooms, walk-in storage areas and hedge-mazes of the Overlook Hotel in his 1980 horror film.

Room 237 becomes not a film about "The Shining" or even a film about film.

But “Room 237” isn’t about any of those things. ... It’s worth keeping in mind as you watch Room 237—not about The Shining’s genesis, but its legacy. Room 237 is a challenging, riveting and hilarious documentary about Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece The Shining. The nose behind this fragrance is Bruno Fazzolari.The fragrance features daisy, angelica, opoponax, costus, green notes, floral notes, musk and vinyl. Room 237 by Bruno Fazzolari is a fragrance for women and men. Room 237 – review 4 / 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars.