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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 |
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Production Countries: USA, UK
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Key Genres:
Black Comedy, Satire, Anti-War Film |
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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) |
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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) ] |
| 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 ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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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) |
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250 Quintessential Noir Films:
Killer's Kiss (1955), The Killing
(1956) |
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"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) |
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"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) |
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"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) |
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"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) |
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"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 |
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"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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