{"id":649609,"date":"2013-03-29T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=223097"},"modified":"2013-03-29T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:17:27","slug":"room-237-director-loses-his-voice-on-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649609","title":{"rendered":"Room 237 Director Loses His Voice On Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much talked about Room 237 opens this weekend, and Rodney Ascher, who directed the documentary about Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s The Shining and the theories about hidden contexts within, has lost his voice. How&#8217;s that for timing? <\/p>\n<p>Ascher tweeted this afternoon:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Lost my voice, but it&#8217;s cool- only about a dozen Q&amp;As to to do this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rodney Ascher (@Rodney_Ascher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rodney_Ascher\/status\/317678371301621760\">March 29, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Reviews of the film have been quite positive for the most part .There has been some criticism (including from Kubrick&#8217;s assistant) about some of the themes discussed in the film, but people seem to find them quite interesting anyway. Here&#8217;s a snippet from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/31\/movies\/aide-to-kubrick-on-shining-scoffs-at-room-237-theories.html?hp&#038;_r=0\">a New York Times review<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That makes the theories fair game for a sober assessment. And who better to provide one than Leon Vitali, who is listed in the closing credits of \u201cThe Shining\u201d as personal assistant to the director? Mr. Vitali had an acting role in Kubrick\u2019s 1975 movie \u201cBarry Lyndon,\u201d went to work for him soon after and remained on his payroll for decades. Mr. Vitali\u2019s first task as an assistant was to fly to the United States to cast the role of Danny, the child of Jack (Jack Nicholson) and Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall). He was present during the 13-month filming at sound stages near London, and throughout postproduction.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Vitali, 64, is a Briton who now lives in Los Angeles, where he works on his own and other film projects. He was recently sent an advance copy of \u201cRoom 237,\u201d and not surprisingly it elicited a strong response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was falling about laughing most of the time,\u201d he said by telephone. \u201cThere are ideas espoused in the movie that I know to be total balderdash.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The film currently has a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Shining itself only has a 90%. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=bImuMt-ggQw:bqkv3p2YlQs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=bImuMt-ggQw:bqkv3p2YlQs:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=bImuMt-ggQw:bqkv3p2YlQs:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=bImuMt-ggQw:bqkv3p2YlQs:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=bImuMt-ggQw:bqkv3p2YlQs:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=bImuMt-ggQw:bqkv3p2YlQs:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=bImuMt-ggQw:bqkv3p2YlQs:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=bImuMt-ggQw:bqkv3p2YlQs:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=bImuMt-ggQw:bqkv3p2YlQs:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/bImuMt-ggQw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much talked about Room 237 opens this weekend, and Rodney Ascher, who directed the documentary about Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s The Shining and the theories about hidden contexts within, has lost his voice. How&#8217;s that for timing? Ascher tweeted this afternoon: Lost my voice, but it&#8217;s cool- only about a dozen Q&amp;As to to do this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}