It was futile to ask former Milwaukee Brewer pitcher John Axford about his planned introduction to tonight’s 35mm screening of “The Shining” at the Oriental Theater as part of the Milwaukee Film Festival.
Though he deemed swinging a baseball bat, as portrayed in the classic horror film, to be a cliché.
Axford, a film and TV major in college, is the festival’s Mr. October. He supports the festival at the $30,000 “Leading Sponsor” level and for the past three years has presented a film by Stanley Kubrick.
My interview with Axford, in which he explains his love for Kubrick and of the festival, appears at MilwaukeeMag.com and in my opinion is worth the quarter you have to spend to read it.
We also talked about the director’s use of one-point perspective and the documentary “Room 237,” about the secrets behind and theories – some outlandish – about Kubrick’s filming of “The Shining”
Watch a super-cut about the first, a trailer for the second and a trailer for “The Shining” below.
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