kubrickStanley Kubrick would have turned 85 on this day last week. With the help of the director’s brother-in-law, right hand man and executive producer Jan Harlan, the BFI has assembled an extensive list of Kubrick-approved movies.

The first and only top ten compliled by the director himself was the following list of personal faves submitted to Cinema magazine in 1969:

1. I Vitelloni (Fellini, 1953)
2. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
5. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
6. Henry V (Olivier, 1944)
7. La notte (Antonioni, 1961)
8. The Bank Dick (Fields, 1940)
9. Roxie Hart (Wellman, 1942)
10. Hell’s Angels (Hughes, 1930)

And that’s just for starters.

READ ON: Stanley Kubrick, cinephile (Nick Wrigley, BFI)

Pic: Dmitri Kasterine (SK in 1969 on the set of A Clockwork Orange)

boingboing

90309267 ( Richie ‘800k+’ Boucher, CEO of Bank of Ireland speaking with RTE’s Emma McNamara today.)

What Goes Up writes:

Bank of Ireland announced new losses today. Yesterday AIB announced losses for the year-to-date: Both banks’ CEOs have stated that part of the reason for the losses is the provisions they have to make against loans going bad i.e. people not paying their debts.

And with that Orwellian twist, it now transpires that the very people who have bailed out the banks with €64 Billion are the reason for the banks continuing poor performance.

The fact that both banks are the very definition of zombie banks (and will continue to be for another 5 years) does not appear to be a significant factor to either “gentleman”.

 

Eating Their Lunches Drinking Their Shakes (Japlandic.com)

Bank of Ireland yearly Losses Narrow (RTE)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

Screen Shot 2013-08-02 at 14.28.22Oh.

Further to the Mills & Boon-creaking charity shop in Dublin 8.

Sinead O’Connor (a different one) writes:

If people think that’s t a lot of Mills and Boons.They’ve clearly never been in the Dungeon [Bookshop, Killarney, Co Kerry] (above)…

 

The Dungeon (Facebook)

posthuman posthuman 2

A multi award-winning scifi short directed by Cole Drumb set in an apocalyptic future where a hacker and his dog help to free the last survivor of a sinister black-ops ESP test lab.

Warning: contains some gore.

shortoftheweek

dreamland2 dreamland1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnfO15cAHE

‘Dreamland’ in south California is the personal ‘backyard skatepark’ of legendary skateboarder Bob Burnquist, featuring a massive ‘megaramp’ with a 4.5m gap leading into a 7.5m high quarterpipe.

worldsbestever/mashable

800px-Keepmoat1Move along.

Rovers chairman John Ryan is believed to favour the Sequentia Capital deal, having approached its representative Kevin Phelan – previously involved with Isle of Man registered company and one-time Rovers owners Westferry, who sold the club to Ryan in 1998 – in early June, with the Irish consortium subsequently agreeing to invest in the club and expressing a firm desire to take over.

“There is definite interest (from Sequentia Capital) and apparently there is another party that Terry is dealing with.

“In all fairness, Terry is the prime mover in the second deal. The Sequentia one (deal) has been led by myself.

“Kevin Phelan was someone I bought Doncaster Rovers from 15 years ago and he is strongly associated with Denis O’Brien, a billionaire Irish businessman. The situation is I am always looking for investment in Doncaster Rovers.”

 

Preposterous.

Rival bid emerges for Doncaster (Leon Wobschall, Yorkshire Post)

Via Elaine Byrne

Previously: Meanwhile, In Doncaster

The Thicks Plotten

Pic: Wikipedia

Broadsheet.ie