Thirty-nine years later, Jack is still not a dull boy.
In a new pristine restoration, Stanley Kubrick’s
“The Shining” premiered at the Cannes Film
Festival on Friday evening. It was the second
straight year that a Kubrick movie landed on the
Croisette, following last year when Christopher
Nolan brought what he termed an “unrestored”
cut of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
This time around, Alfonso Cuaron introduced
the film, alongside Kubrick’s daughter, Katharina
Kubrick, and Leon Vitali, Kubrick’s longtime
assistant. Vitali was himself profiled in the 2017
documentary “Filmworker,” also a Cannes entry.
“If anybody hasn’t seen it on the screen before,
it’s a different experience completely,” Vitali told
the crowd. “Don’t worry, you’ll all come out of
here alive.”