Room 237
Room 237 is an documentary film directed by Rodney Ascher about explanation and interpretation of different scholars on the meaning of 'The Shining (1980)'. The film concerns a few different theories about 'The Shining' through different point of view but do not promote any particular claims.
9 December 1916, Amsterdam, New York, USA
18 April 1930, Wellington, New Zealand
22 April 1937, Neptune, New Jersey, USA
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
8 September 1925, Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK
18 May 1920, Wadowice, Malopolskie, Poland
10 July 1946, Davenport, Iowa, USA
July 14, 2016
Room 237 isn't about The Shining or the Holocaust or the slaughter of Native Americans or the moon landing. It's about people finding order in chaos.
June 24, 2015
Don't watch this film and expect an authoritative critical analysis of the film; watch it and explore the distorting, drug-like pull that some art can exert on its audience.
May 10, 2013
The human brain is a marvellously suggestible organ.
July 12, 2013
Inelegant in the way it assembles all this stuff ... but anyone who's ever obsessed over the subtext of a beloved movie will find it amusing.
May 02, 2013
"Room 237" evolves from an ode to movie love at its most delirious to a wry examination of the crackpot mind at work.
June 12, 2013
A curious and entertaining documentary.
April 18, 2013
There's enough real evidence supporting the theory that Kubrick was a genius, and that's pretty entertaining all by itself.
May 10, 2013
[A] strange, frustrating, occasionally fascinating doc ...
July 15, 2015
"The Shining" is the perfect launching pad for a movie about obsessive film theorists because Kubrick attracts theories like lint and this film is perhaps his most stubbornly mystifying work.
May 31, 2013
An intellectual exercise, and an entertaining one, especially for those who don't want to label The Shining as just a ghost story.
December 31, 2015
Do the Kabbalist readings or wild free associations that Room 237 celebrates improve The Shining? Let's say that they create a parallel text: Lost in the Overlook, in search of the overlooked.
June 02, 2014
Room 237 is about bringing a text to life through an active, prolonged, playful, or even tortured relationship to it. It's a document of immersive obsession.
