"Max Ophüls"". Geoffrey Cocks believes that Kubrick was also influenced by Ophüls' stories of thwarted love and a preoccupation with predatory men, while Herr notes that Kubrick was deeply inspired by G. W. Pabst, who earlier tried, but was unable to adapt Schnitzler's ""Traumnovelle"", the basis of ""Eyes Wide Shut"". Film critic Robert Kolker sees the influence of Welles' moving camera shots on Kubrick's style. LoBrutto notes that Kubrick identified with Welles and that this influenced the making of ""The Killing"", with its ""multiple points of view, extreme angles, and deep focus"". Kubrick admired the work of Ingmar Bergman and"
"brilliant. Then the film degenerates into a masterpiece."" Roger Ebert was not particularly impressed with it, awarding it a mediocre 2.5 out of 4. He concluded: ""Stanley Kubrick's ""Full Metal Jacket"" is more like a book of short stories than a novel"", a ""strangely shapeless film from the man whose work usually imposes a ferociously consistent vision on his material"". Kubrick's final film was ""Eyes Wide Shut"" (1999), starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a Manhattan couple on a sexual odyssey. Tom Cruise portrays a doctor who witnesses a bizarre masked quasireligious orgiastic ritual at a country mansion, a"
"Stanley Kubrick's final project, ""A.I. Artificial Intelligence"" which Kubrick was unable to begin during his lifetime. A futuristic film about a humanoid android longing for love, ""A.I."" featured groundbreaking visual effects and a multi-layered, allegorical storyline, adapted by Spielberg himself. Though the film's reception in the US was relatively muted, it performed better overseas for a worldwide total box office gross of $236 million. Spielberg and actor Tom Cruise collaborated for the first time for the futuristic neo-noir ""Minority Report"", based upon the science fiction short story written by Philip K. Dick about a Washington D.C. police captain in the"
"to make use of a Steadicam for stabilized and fluid tracking shots. While many of Kubrick's films were controversial and initially received mixed reviews upon release—particularly ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971), which Kubrick pulled from circulation in the UK following a mass media frenzy—most were nominated for Oscars, Golden Globes, or BAFTA Awards, and underwent critical reevaluations. His last film, ""Eyes Wide Shut"", was completed shortly before his death in 1999 at the age of 70. Kubrick was born in the Lying-In Hospital at 307 Second Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, to a Jewish family. He was the first of"
"landings during the filming of ""2001: A Space Odyssey"", and ""Colour Me Kubrick"" (2005), starring John Malkovich as Alan Conway, a con artist who had assumed Kubrick's identity in the 1990s. Both films were authorized by Kubrick's family. In the 2004 film ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"", Kubrick was portrayed by Stanley Tucci, and documents their filming of ""Dr. Strangelove"", rather than ""Lolita"". In April 2018, the month that marked the 50th anniversary of ""2001: A Space Odyssey"", the International Astronomical Union named the largest mountain of Pluto's moon Charon after Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July"
"Political and religious beliefs of Stanley Kubrick The political and religious views of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) have been subjects of speculation during his lifetime and after his death. While early films like ""Paths of Glory"" (1957) seem to reflect an overtly progressive ideology, later films such as ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971) can be construed as equally critical of the political left and right. Despite the lack of commitment to a particular world-view, it is generally agreed that Kubrick was fascinated by the possibilities of a supernatural reality, as reflected in """" (1968) and ""The Shining"" (1980). In his memoir"
"to conduct a rare interview with the director, Kubrick suddenly died after completing work on his final film ""Eyes Wide Shut"" (1999). To his surprise, Ronson was invited to Kubrick's house by his widow. When he arrived, he found that half the house was filled by more than one thousand boxes containing snap shots, newspaper clippings, film out-takes, notes, and fan letters which the director used for research towards each of his films. Stanley Kubrick's Boxes Stanley Kubrick's Boxes is a 2008 documentary film directed by Jon Ronson about the film director Stanley Kubrick. Ronson's intent was not to create"
"movie ever made."" ""Napoleon"" was eventually canceled due to the prohibitive cost of location filming, the Western release of Sergei Bondarchuk's epic film version of Leo Tolstoy's novel ""War and Peace"" (1968), and the commercial failure of Bondarchuk's Napoleon-themed film ""Waterloo"" (1970). A significant portion of Kubrick's historical research would influence ""Barry Lyndon"" (1975), the storyline of which ends in 1789, approximately fifteen years prior to the commencement of the Napoleonic Wars. In March 2013 Steven Spielberg announced his intention to create, in conjunction with Kubrick's family, a television miniseries based on Kubrick's screenplay. In May 2016, HBO announced that"
"not buried in consecrated ground. We always celebrated Christmas and had huge Christmas trees. In ""Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures"", Jack Nicholson recalls that Kubrick said ""The Shining"" is an overall optimistic story because ""anything that says there's anything after death is ultimately an optimistic story."" Political and religious beliefs of Stanley Kubrick The political and religious views of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) have been subjects of speculation during his lifetime and after his death. While early films like ""Paths of Glory"" (1957) seem to reflect an overtly progressive ideology, later films such as ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971) can"
"adaptation of Eco's 1988 novel ""Foucault's Pendulum"", declined due to his dissatisfaction with the film adaptation of his earlier novel ""The Name of the Rose"". Additionally, Eco sought the role of screenwriter but Kubrick was unwilling to cooperate. Following Kubrick's death, Eco stated that he regretted his initial decision. Prior to the commencement of work for ""2001"", Terry Southern suggested the production of a high-budget pornographic film called ""Blue Movie"" to Kubrick; Southern proposed the film as an attempt to reinvent the genre. Kubrick decided against Southern's suggestion in the belief that he did not have the appropriate temperament for"
"Stanley Kubrick Archive The Stanley Kubrick Archive is held by the University of the Arts London in their Archives and Special Collection Centre at the London College of Communication. The Archive opened in October 2007 and contains material collected and owned by the film director Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999). It was transferred from his home in 2007 through a gift by his family. It contains much of Kubrick's working material that was accumulated during his lifetime. The collection spans Kubrick’s career as a photographer for Look and as a film Director. His films are: ""Fear and Desire"", ""Killer's Kiss"", ""The Killing"","
"Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music. Kubrick was raised in the Bronx, New York City, and attended William Howard Taft High School from 1941 to 1945. Although he only received average grades, Kubrick displayed a"
"his life, Kubrick locks himself up in his home and never leaves it until his death. As a conclusion, General Vernon Walters accepts to reveal the secret of Kubrick's demise, but unexpectedly dies the next evening: he has accepted to break the CIA rule of silence and anonymity. It is finally revealed that this is a mockumentary as the end credits roll over a montage of blooper reels, with the main participants laughing over their lines or over their inability to remember them. William Karel had just completed ""Hollywood"", a film based on lying, when he and the documentary unit"
"1999 in film The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's final film ""Eyes Wide Shut"", Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film ""All About My Mother"", the science-fiction hit ""The Matrix"", the Deep Canvas-pioneering Disney animated feature ""Tarzan"" and Best Picture-winner ""American Beauty"" and the well-received ""The Green Mile"", as well as the animated works ""The Iron Giant"", ""Toy Story 2"", ""Stuart Little"" and """". Other noteworthy releases included Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's breakout film ""Being John Malkovich"" and M. Night Shyamalan's breakout film ""The Sixth Sense"", the controversial ""Fight Club"" and Paul Thomas Anderson's ""Magnolia"". The year also featured"
"(1968), after he found out that Kubrick had been working with NASA for a year on space exploration, and that would put him at a disadvantage in developing his art. This enabled Adam to make his name with his innovative, semi-futuristic sets for further James Bond films, such as ""Goldfinger"" (1964), ""Thunderball"" (1965), ""You Only Live Twice"" (1967), and ""Diamonds Are Forever"" (1971). The supertanker set for ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977) was constructed in the largest sound stage in the world, at the time. It was lit by Stanley Kubrick in secret. His last Bond film was ""Moonraker"""
"until Kubrick's death in 1999; they had two daughters, Anya and Vivian. Christiane also has a daughter, Katharina, the only child of her first marriage to that ended in 1957. Anya died in 2009 from cancer, aged 50. The Kubrick family moved to England in the early 1960s, where Christiane continued to paint and exhibit. She became a highly accomplished and avidly collected artist with a passion for floral settings and still life paintings. Her works were featured in two Stanley Kubrick films. In ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971), a large floral oil painting adorns the living room of ""Home"", the"
"""Paths of Glory"", ""Spartacus"", ""Lolita"", """", """", ""A Clockwork Orange"", ""Barry Lyndon"", ""The Shining"", ""Full Metal Jacket"" and ""Eyes Wide Shut"". Kubrick also planned to make a number of other films two in particular were abandoned just before production, ""Napoleon"" and ""The Aryan Papers"". He also played an important role in the conception of """", although it was completed after his death by Steven Spielberg. The collection held by the University is made up of a range of material including props, scripts, research, production paperwork such as call sheets, costumes and photographs for all his films and Look, as well"
"mini-reviews of the film in various issues in 1968, each one slightly more positive than the preceding one; in the final review dated December 27, 1968, the magazine called ""2001"" ""an epic film about the history and future of mankind, brilliantly directed by Stanley Kubrick. The special effects are mindblowing."" Pauline Kael called it ""a monumentally unimaginative movie"", and Stanley Kauffmann of ""The New Republic"" called it ""a film that is so dull, it even dulls our interest in the technical ingenuity for the sake of which Kubrick has allowed it to become dull."" Renata Adler of ""The New York"
"1999. He commenced a script with Frederic Raphael, and worked 18 hours a day, while maintaining complete confidentiality about the film. ""Eyes Wide Shut"", like ""Lolita"" and ""A Clockwork Orange"" before it, faced censorship before release. Kubrick sent an unfinished preview copy to the stars and producers a few months before release, but his sudden death on March 7, 1999, came a few days after he finished editing. He never saw the final version released to the public, but he did see the preview of the film with Warner Bros., Cruise, and Kidman, and had reportedly told Warner executive Julian"
"considering it a perfect text for a film adaptation about sexual relations. He revived the project only in the 1990s, when he hired writer Frederic Raphael to help him with the adaptation. The film, which was mostly shot in the United Kingdom, apart from some exterior establishing shots, includes a detailed recreation of exterior Greenwich Village street scenes made at Pinewood Studios. The film's production, at 400 days, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous film shoot. Kubrick died six days after showing his final cut to Warner Bros., making the film his final directorial effort. To ensure"
"Not this shit!' I threw the script across the room. 'We're going back to the original script, or we're not making the picture.' Stanley never blinked an eye. We shot the original script. I think the movie is a classic, one of the most important pictures—possibly the ""most"" important picture—Stanley Kubrick has ever made."" Douglas played military men in numerous films, with varying nuance, including ""Top Secret Affair"" (1957), ""Town Without Pity"" (1961), ""The Hook"" (1963), ""Seven Days in May"" (1964), ""Heroes of Telemark"" (1965), ""In Harm's Way"" (1965), ""Cast a Giant Shadow"" (1966), ""Is Paris Burning"" (1966), ""The Final"
"the redeeming final chapter from the U.S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature—an ending which the publisher insisted would be ""more realistic"" and appealing to a US audience. The film adaptation, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is based on the American edition of the book (which Burgess considered to be ""badly flawed""). Kubrick called Chapter 21 ""an extra chapter"" and claimed that he had not read the original version until he had virtually finished the screenplay, and that he had never given serious consideration to using it. In"
"fascination in World War II led to an interest in The Battle of Monte Cassino. D'Alessandro said, ""Stanley said that would be an interesting film to make. He asked me to get hold of things … like newspaper cuttings and find out the distance from the airport, train stations. He had a friend who actually bombarded Monte Cassino during the war … It is horrible to remember those days. Everything was completely destroyed.” Stanley Kubrick's unrealized projects Film director Stanley Kubrick worked on numerous film projects that were never completed. In 1956, after the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M.G.M.) studio turned down a"
"the sharpest comedy films ever made, and holds a near perfect 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 68 reviews as of August 2015. It was named the 39th-greatest American film and third-greatest American comedy film of all time by the American Film Institute, and in 2010, it was named the sixth-best comedy film of all time by ""The Guardian"". Kubrick spent five years developing his next film, ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" (1968), having been highly impressed with science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke's novel ""Childhood's End"", about a superior race of alien beings who assist mankind in eliminating their"
"researched, invented special effects techniques, designed ultra-low light lenses for specially modified cameras, pre-produced, edited, post-produced, advertised, distributed and carefully managed all aspects of four of his films: ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" (1965 to 1968), ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1969 to 1971), ""Barry Lyndon"" (1972 to 1975) and most of ""The Shining"" (1976 to 1980 - finished the year after he left for Childwickbury Green) In 1978, Kubrick moved into Childwickbury Manor in Hertfordshire, UK, a mainly 18th century building about north of London and a 10-minute drive from his previous home at Abbotts Mead. After finishing ""The Shining"" he went"
"Personal life of Stanley Kubrick The personal life of Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick married his high-school sweetheart Toba Metz in May 1948, when he was nineteen years of age. They lived together in Greenwich Village and divorced three years later in 1951. He met his second wife, the Austrian-born dancer and theatrical designer Ruth Sobotka, in 1952. They lived together in New York's East Village from 1952 until their marriage in January 1955. They moved to Hollywood six months afterwards, where she played a brief part as a ballet dancer in Kubrick's film, ""Killer's Kiss"" (1955). The following year she was"
"title refers to the full metal jacket bullet used by soldiers. The film was released in the United States on June 26, 1987. It was the last of Kubrick's films to be released during his lifetime. ""Full Metal Jacket"" received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Kubrick, Herr, and Hasford. In 2001, the American Film Institute placed it at No. 95 in their ""AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills"" poll. During the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, a group of Marine Corps recruits arrive at Parris Island, South Carolina, for boot camp. Drill Instructor"
"chapter had been deleted on the insistence of its American publisher. He claimed not to have read the complete, original version of the novel until he had almost finished writing the screenplay, and that he never considered using it. The introduction to the 1996 edition of ""A Clockwork Orange"" says that Kubrick found the end of the original edition too blandly optimistic and unrealistic. In 2000, the film was released on VHS and DVD, both individually and as part of ""The Stanley Kubrick Collection"" DVD set. Due to negative comments from fans, Warner Bros re-released the film, its image digitally"
"in 1999, he became the director of the documentary, """", in which Christiane took full part. Although the project was never realized, Stanley Kubrick had considered making a film about their uncle, Veit Harlan, the German filmmaker who made the antisemitic ""Jud Süß"" (1940). The two siblings are very active in preservation, exhibit production, and publishing related to Stanley Kubrick's life and work, including the Taschen mega-book ""The Stanley Kubrick Archives"" and the touring major museum exhibit. As of 2018, Kubrick continues to live in England, where she and her daughter, Katharina, held regular painting courses at their home, Childwickbury"
"on improvising extensively during the production. Kubrick and Douglas were also at odds over the script, with Kubrick angering Douglas when he cut all but two of his lines from the opening 30 minutes. Despite the on-set troubles, ""Spartacus"" was a critical and commercial success, earning $14.6 million at the box office in its first run. The film established Kubrick as a major director, receiving six Academy Award nominations and winning four; it ultimately convinced him that if so much could be made of such a problematic production, he could achieve anything. ""Spartacus"" also marked, however, the end of the"
"Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures is a 2001 documentary about the life and work of Stanley Kubrick, famed film director, made by his long-time assistant and brother-in-law Jan Harlan. Its running time is 142 minutes long, it consists of several 15-minute chapters, each detailing the making of one of his films – and two more showing his childhood and life. Jan Harlan got many of Kubrick's collaborators for interviews, including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Keir Dullea, Arthur C. Clarke, Malcolm McDowell, Peter Ustinov, Jack Nicholson, György Ligeti and Matthew Modine. It also has"
"S Is for Stanley S is for Stanley – 30 Years Behind the Wheel for Stanley Kubrick () is a 2015 Italian documentary film co-written and directed by Alex Infascelli. It depicts the relationship between celebrated director Stanley Kubrick and his personal chauffeur and assistant, Emilio D'Alessandro. It was produced by Kinethica and Lock And Valentine. It is based on D'Alessandro's autobiography ""Stanley Kubrick and Me"". The film won the 2016 David di Donatello Award for Best Documentary. It was also nominated at the 2016 European Film Awards for best documentary film. The film also won the Master of Art"
"falling behind whatever he came up with."" In 2000, BAFTA renamed their Britannia lifetime achievement award the ""Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award"", joining the likes of D. W. Griffith, Laurence Olivier, Cecil B. DeMille, and Irving Thalberg, all of whom have annual awards named after them. Kubrick won this award in 1999, and subsequent recipients have included George Lucas, Warren Beatty, Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, and Daniel Day-Lewis. A number of people who worked with Kubrick on his films created the 2001 documentary """", produced and directed by Kubrick's brother-in-law, Jan Harlan, who had executive produced Kubrick's last"