{"id":8713,"date":"2017-10-08T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8713"},"modified":"2017-10-17T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T00:05:53","slug":"kubricks-right-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/08\/kubricks-right-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubrick’s Right-hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Daily. Beast<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Stanley Kubrick\u2019s Right-Hand Man Speaks: The Personal Toll of Working With a Genius<\/h1>\n

Leon Vitali\u2019s career spent working alongside Stanley Kubrick is a case study of both selfless devotion and self-destructive mania. He wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/h2>\n

by NICK SCHAGER<\/a><\/p>\n

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Every serious cinephile is aware of Stanley Kubrick<\/a>, but far fewer are familiar with Leon Vitali, the English co-star of Kubrick\u2019s Barry Lyndon<\/em> who, following that performance, became the auteur\u2019s steadfast right-hand man. Doing everything asked of him by the legendarily meticulous filmmaker\u2014from taking notes, creating marketing materials, and color-coding prints, to casting, rehearsing with stars, and acting himself\u2014Vitali was the irreplaceable assistant who helped shepherd to the screen The Shining<\/a><\/em>, Full Metal Jacket<\/em>and Eyes Wide Shut<\/em>, even as his vital role in those projects remained largely hidden from the public.<\/p>\n

That situation is justly rectified by Tony Zierra\u2019s Filmworker<\/em>, a superb documentary about Vitali\u2019s career alongside Kubrick that serves as a case study of both selfless devotion and self-destructive mania\u2014as well as a much-deserved celebration of a true artist-behind-the-artist. And according to its subject, it certainly doesn\u2019t overstate how uniquely demanding it was to work with one of cinema\u2019s true geniuses.<\/p>\n

\u201cBalance is a word that rarely came into my vocabulary throughout my whole time, whether I was working with Stanley or not,\u201d Vitali chuckles when speaking to me from Los Angeles, two days before Filmworker\u2019s premiere (this Tuesday) at the New York Film Festival<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m just one of those people who gets quite emotional once they got locked into something. And some things take on proportions of life and death.\u201d Though he found watching himself on screen in this form \u201ca little bit weird,\u201d he confesses, \u201cI can honestly say it didn\u2019t exaggerate, in any stretch of the imagination, how fraught or tense it could be. Or how time intensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from Daily. Beast Stanley Kubrick\u2019s Right-Hand Man Speaks: The Personal Toll of Working With a Genius Leon Vitali\u2019s career spent working alongside Stanley Kubrick is a case study of both selfless devotion and self-destructive mania. He wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. by NICK SCHAGER Every serious cinephile is aware of Stanley Kubrick, but far […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}