ON STANLEY KUBRICK: A FORCE OF NATURE

Thanks to 'The Stanley Kubrick Appreciation Society', we all now get to see the video of a talk given in 2001 at the University of Oklahoma Department of Film and Video Studies by Joseph Turkel, one of the few actors to have scored a Stanley Kubrick Hat Trick, having appeared in a bit part in The Killing, a co-starring role in Paths of Glory, and a pivotal part in The Shining. 

On Youtube, it's been chopped into five pieces, but some kind soul has combined all the parts into a single video and made it available as a single video on the superior platform, Vimeo. Watch it there, or see it here, embedded, below...

 

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JOE TURKEL ON HIS ROLE IN THE SHINING

Okay, so this is a weird one. Some feller by the name of Media Mike--whose first language obviously isn't English--got a chance to chat with actor Joe Turkel at one of those "meet a celebrity" autograph conventions. Turkel is most famous for playing Lloyd the bartender in The Shining and Eldon Tyrell in Bladerunner, but he also had roles in two earlier films by Kubrick: The Killing and Paths of Glory. In The Killing, Turkel was little more than a glorified extra, but in Paths of Glory, he played Private Arnaud, a philosophically inclined chatterbox who is one of three French soldiers chosen to be executed for cowardice after a failed attempt to overtake a position held by the Germans. In any case, regardless of the site's broken English, it's nice to know that Turkel is still alive and mentally sharp at 88.