Rodney Ascher

“ROOM 237″ AND THE MUSIC OF “THE SHINING”

By Scott Macaulay

Friday, January 27th, 2012

I’m leaving Sundance this year was the longest list of films I missed but really want to see then ever before. At the very top of is Room 237, Rodney Ascher’s treatise on the multiple meanings viewers have constructed from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. “Discover why many have been trapped in the Overlook Hotel for over 30 years,” is the film’s beguiling tagline. Here, via Lance Weiler’s Text of Light, is an excerpt about the music.

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“ROOM 237” | director, Rodney Ascher

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23, Noon – Egyptian Theatre, Park City]

Growing up I had planned on being a comic book artist, but at some point decided it’d be a little lonely spending all day in front of a drawing board by myself while filmmaking seemed like going on an adventure with a crazy group of friends. But years later I found myself working on this film alone in front of the computer for weeks on end, so joke’s on me.

Of course THIS story, about how one film has managed to inspire so much speculation and become so important to people couldn’t really make sense in any other medium; I needed a movie to talk about a movie.

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