Stanley Kubrick
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Notable Festivals: BerlinaleAcademy Award Wins: Best Supporting Actor, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume DesignInducted into the Criterion Collection: 2001 Inducted into the National Film Registry: 2017 A filmmaker’s development happens gradually, over the course of a lifetime. His or her aesthetic is informed by a series of experiences, experiments, and ideas that coalesce…
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Notable Festivals: BerlinaleInducted into the National Film Registry in 1992Inducted into the Criterion Collection in 2010 The war film has long been a staple of cinema, from 1930’s ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT to 1998’s SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Almost every major war in human history has been depicted in some form onscreen, yet the…
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Inducted into the Criterion Collection: 2011 The release of 1955’s independently-produced KILLER’S KISS made a small splash in film circles, gaining its young director, Stanley Kubrick, a modest amount of attention in the process. An upcoming young television producer named James B. Harris found his own attention particularly captivated by this bold new voice in…
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The release of 1953’s FEAR AND DESIRE did not bring director Stanley Kubrick the kind of career momentum he might have hoped for. Instead of jumping on another feature straight away, Kubrick took a detour with a short industrial film called THE SEAFARERS (1953) as a way to pay the rent. He wouldn’t make another…
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Following the release of director Stanley Kubrick’s FEAR AND DESIRE (1953), the burgeoning auteur might have been dismayed to find that his first feature-length narrative effort didn’t generate a great deal of forward momentum for his career. While he gained a good deal of new friends in the critic’s circle, his phone wasn’t exactly ringing…
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Aspiring directors making their first features under scrappy, shoestring budgets and/or a shallow pool of production resources is a grand tradition within the art of cinema. Oftentimes, directors’ first films are their most electrifying—a shrill cry of independence and assertion of artistic existence wrought from a primal desire for expression. Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavettes, Lynch, Malick….…
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There’s not much more to write about director Stanley Kubrick than what’s already been written. His work has been analyzed, pored-over and dissected as long as it’s been around. He’s held up as the gold standard in filmmaking—the benchmark by which all other directors aspire to, and all critics compare against. Each of his major…