Stanley Kubrick Episodes
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In setting out to make a film about nuclear war, Stanley Kubrick realized the only way to properly convey the horror of total annihilation was to make it as absurd as possible. Thus, DR STRANGELOVE was born, and a nuclear-armed world would never be the same. This video is a clip from our multi-part documentary…
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In 1956, a 27-year-old Stanley Kubrick made a heist film with a structural idea so unusual that test audiences demanded it be re-cut in chronological order. “The Killing” tells the story of a $2 million racetrack robbery, told from the fractured perspectives of the heist’s crew. It was one of the first American films to…
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THE SHINING’s Overlook Hotel is one of the most analyzed locations in cinema. But most people focus on what happens inside it… and not on the fact that it physically cannot exist. Stanley Kubrick and his team designed a hotel whose corridors loop back on themselves, where windows appear where walls should be, and geography…