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Tag Archives: Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick 8B: Male Anxiety and MarriageEyes Wide Shut (1998)
When Stanley Kubrick’s movies were released on Blu-ray back in 2011, I decided it was time to watch them all again in chronological order. In part to remind myself of just why he’d been important to my sense of film … Continue reading
Stanley Kubrick 8A: Male Anxiety and War
Full Metal Jacket (1986)
It was seven years after The Shining before Stanley Kubrick released his next film. Even given that Full Metal Jacket was two years in the making, that still leaves a long gap, perhaps indicating the difficulty he had in both … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Black comedy, Directors, Review, Stanley Kubrick, War Films
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Stanley Kubrick 7: The Shining (1980)
The first time I saw Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s third novel, The Shining, when it was released in 1980, I lined up for an hour to get into the Colony Theatre on opening night. Just as my friend … Continue reading
Stanley Kubrick 6: Odd Man Out – Barry Lyndon (1975)
My project of revisiting all of Stanley Kubrick’s movies in chronological order has, once again, been stalled for some time, although the delay in looking at Barry Lyndon again has nothing to do with the kind of reluctance I felt … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Adaptation, Directors, Historical Epic, Review, Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick 5B: Science Fiction – A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess wrote his short novel A Clockwork Orange in 1962 as a way of coming to terms with the rape of his first wife. It may seem odd then that the book takes the first person point of view … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Burgess, Black comedy, Review, Satire, Science Fiction, Stanley Kubrick, Violence
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Stanley Kubrick 5A: Science Fiction – 2001: A Space Odyssey
I first saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in St. John’s, Newfoundland, when I was 13. Like a lot of people back then, I responded to it as an “experience” rather than a narrative. I don’t think I even … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur C. Clarke, Artificial Intelligence, Directors, Science Fiction, Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick 4B: America in England
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
By 1964, Stanley Kubrick had been honing his filmmaking skills for more than ten years in a series of increasingly ambitious projects, all of which were somewhat conventional in terms of form and content – film noir, historical epic, war … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Comedy, Directors, George C. Scott, nuclear war, Peter Sellers, Sidney Lumet, Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick 4A: America in England – Lolita (1962)
After the experience of directing Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick got as far away from Hollywood as he could. He moved to England, where he stayed for the rest of his life and made his eight subsequent features. Interestingly, the first two … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Adaptation, Directors, James Mason, Lolita, Peter Sellers, Stanley Kubrick, Valdimir Nabokov
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Nuclear Madness
It’s probably difficult, if not impossible, for someone born in the last 20 or 30 years to understand the psychological atmosphere that prevailed at the height of the Cold War when the two superpowers were locked in a policy appropriately … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, Documentary, DVD, nuclear war, Peter Watkins, Propaganda, Review, Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick 3: The Missing Piece – Fear and Desire (1953)
As readers and viewers, we tend to be greedy. We want access to everything a creator may have done, regardless of that creator’s wishes. If an author dies leaving an unpublished manuscript, we expect to be given access to it, … Continue reading
