IFC Midnight is proud to present Rodney Ascher’s highly acclaimed ROOM 237, which was released on March 29, 2013, in New York City, followed by a national rollout. The film is simultaneously available ...

In his review of the 1984 film 2010, a largely forgotten sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s landmark 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, Roger Ebert referenced a quote from the poet E.E. Cummings: “I’d ...

I've seen Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece, "The Shining," but "Room 237" proves I've never really seen it. This documentary, which came out last year, sheds light on the many interpretations of ...

At first glance, you can see the source of the humor. Ascher’s film hands the narrative reins over to “The Shining” obsessives for their hypotheses about Kubrick’s intent and message overall. From the ...

Stanley Kubrick was an obsessive filmmaker, infamous for his endless takes, rigorously composed images and meticulous attention to detail. But while the subject matter of his movies varied wildly ...

“Here’s Johnny!” Kubrickphiles debate just about everything in the documentary Room 237. It makes a twisted kind of sense that the celebrated director’s films would attract similarly obsessive fans; ...

Here are the kind of theories that the five interviewees in Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 have come up with about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining: One believes that it’s an allegory about the genocide of ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. One person believes “The Shining” was Stanley Kubrick's commentary on the Holocaust. Another points out clues that reveal the film ...

At this year’s Sundance film festival there was one film that stuck out as anomaly of a new kind of documentary that re-examines the very essence of film critique. Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 is a study ...

'Room 237,' directed by Rodney Ascher, is a documentary about Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' -- and the secrets embedded therein. (Photo by IFC Films) The New Orleans political documentary "Getting ...

The first thing you realize while watching “Room 237” is that you haven’t seen Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” enough. You definitely haven’t seen it as many times as the people in the film ...

One of the great movies about movies, "Room 237" takes permanent residence in the icy labyrinth that is Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." Among other things, Ascher’s playfully inquisitive docu ...