Stanley Kubrick

Photographing Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’

March 1976 edition of American Cinematographer Magazine with two Kubrick-related articles, each covering the photographing of the film Barry Lyndon [pdf].…

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“We are badly in need of a mad computer expert”

The great folks at British Film Institute unearthed a memo to Roger Caras from Stanley Kubrick. On 22 September 1965, during…

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Screenplay for the deleted original ending of ‘The Shining’

When the film was first released, a hospital epilogue was located between the shot of Jack frozen in the snow and…

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‘The Shining’: The Upside of Madness

One of the world's greatest cinematic artists was Stanley Kubrick. A filmmaker both in control of the craft, Kubrick began…

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“The thing is, nobody outside the Kubrick house got to see the boxes”

Stanley Kubrick's films were landmark events—majestic, memorable and richly researched. But, as the years went by, the time between films…

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‘Full Metal Jacket’ is an indisputable classic that simply has to be part of any filmmaker’s education

At the same time devastating and inspiring, war has always been a popular theme for filmmakers to exploit. Through the…

10 years ago

“The best education in film is to make one. I would advise any neophyte director to try to make a film by himself. A three-minute short will teach him a lot”

Stanley Kubrick actually made the transition from photography to film after reading Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Film Technique. Pudovkin was a Russian film director, screenwriter…

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The Making of Kubrick’s 2001

A few days ago, I received out-of-print gem The Making of Kubrick’s 2001 (edited wonderfully by Jerome Agel, 1970). I’m…

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All the essential documentaries on Stanley Kubrick

All the essential documentaries on Stanley Kubrick, including Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001), Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008), A…

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