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Stanley Kubrick

 

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Director / Screenwriter / Producer / Cinematographer / Editor
1928 - 1999 
Born July 28, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
Key Production Countries: USA, UK 
Key Genres: Black Comedy, Satire, Anti-War Film
Key Collaborators: James B. Harris (Producer), Joseph Turkel (Character Player), John Alcott (Cinematographer), Gerald Fried (Composer), Kirk Douglas (Leading Player), Sterling Hayden (Leading Player), Peter Sellers (Leading Player), Patrick Magee (Leading Player), Jim Thompson (Screenwriter), Anthony Harvey (Editor)
Highly Recommended: The Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Spartacus (1960), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Recommended: Killer's Kiss (1955), Lolita (1962), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Links: [ IMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide[ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ The Kubrick Site ] [ Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide ] [ Stanley Kubrick: The Master Filmmaker ] [ The Authorized Stanley Kubrick Web Site ] [ 1969 Interview with Kubrick ] [ Guardian Article ] [ Kubrick 2001: The Space Odyssey Explained ] [ Off Screen Article (2006) ] [ Sight & Sound Article (2009) ] [ Flickering Myth Profile ]
Books: [ Kubrick: The Definitive Edition ] [ Stanley Kubrick: Interviews ] [ Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis ] [ The Stanley Kubrick Archives[ Stanley Kubrick: Drama & Shadows ] [ Stanley Kubrick ] [ Stanley Kubrick: The Complete Films ] [ Stanley Kubrick: A Biography ] [ Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History ]
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1,000 Greatest Films: The Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Spartacus (1960), Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
250 Quintessential Noir Films: Killer's Kiss (1955), The Killing (1956)
 
The Killing (1956)Paths of Glory (1957)Dr. Strangelove (1964)2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
 
     
  "Few American directors have been able to work within the studio system of the American film industry with the independence which Stanley Kubrick has achieved. By steadily building a reputation as a filmmaker of international importance, he has gained full artistic control over his films, guiding the production of each of them from the earliest stages of planning and scripting through post-production." - Gene D. Phillips (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991)  
     
  "After 1961, Kubrick was based in England, with some of the precious decorousness of the writer in A Clockwork Orange who is broken in on by Alex and the Droogs. Five films were passed out to the world from that retreat, which took an increasingly sententious and nihilistic view of our social and moral ethics, but which are devoid of artistic personality as the worlds that Kubrick elegantly extrapolates." - David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)  
     
  "Immensely talented American filmmaker with a sure visual sense. Perhaps, though, led astray by the (deserved) success of Spartacus, Kubrick's later films are the best possible proof that bigger does not necessarily mean better. Since the mid-1960s, Kubrick has become a maker of films for effect and has lost much of the narrative drive that once distinguished his work." - David Quinlan (Quinlan's Illustrated Guide to Film Directors, 1983)  
     
  "As a social satirist (Dr. Strangelove, 64; A Clockwork Orange, 71), Kubrick is a master. As a maker of mood pieces which outline man's place in society and civilization (2001, 68; Barry Lyndon, 76), he is interested more in the workings of various mechanical and social machines than in man. Kubrick is one of America's finest post-World War II filmmakers." - William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978)  
     
  "A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later." - Stanley Kubrick  
     
  "The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle." - Stanley Kubrick  
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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