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“Truth in the movies, lies in the news.”

-Russian Vids

Idyllopus Press, aka author/artist Juli Kearns on the rainbows in the opening credits of The Shining:

“The rainbow enters later graphically as a symbol but we already have the rainbow arch here, the splashes of rainbow color occurring just after the VW enters the dark tunnel and dissipating, after its emergence, with the Anne Jackson title. Incidentally, the two names that appear with the fullest rainbow-like display are Joe Turkel, the bartender, and Philip Stone who plays Delbert Grady, two characters who appear only to Jack in the film.”

Fig. 13 - The credits over the tunnel.

Film captions below are by the French film critic Laurant Vachad, from his interview about Kubrick’s films. The montage of images from the film (narrated with Vachad’s interview), as well as other films, is mine.

Alice in Wonderland, 1951

On the documentary Lynch/Oz, 2022:

“Aside from the brilliant footage shown of him playing ‘Over The Rainbow’ on a trumpet, David Lynch’s love of Oz is never clearer than in ‘Multitudes’, the chapter by director Karyn Kusama (Destroyer). A former waitress who served him pancakes, she recalls seeing Mulholland Drive at the New York Film Festival, when Lynch arrived on stage for a Q&A. An audience member asked him what the film meant. “Well, I think you know,” he replied, in typically evasive fashion. Then another asked about his relationship to Oz. “There is not a day that goes by where I don’t think about The Wizard of Oz,” he said, earnestly….If the curtains are a gateway to magic, as Nicholson suggests in her essay – Lynch is the man pulling the levers, like Oz’s own wizard.”

As if under a spell, Sailor keeps passing out in Wild at Heart like Alice in Wonderland, but is finally woken up by true love, which heals all wounds and breaks all spells.

Lynch/Oz, 2022

Silence of the Lambs, 1991

The Shining, 1980

Rob Ager: “Kubrick very consciously made some crossovers between Jack Torrance and Humbert Humbert.”

(For the record, Rob Ager worked for many years with abused children as a social worker).