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Favourite director and all-round icon of mine, Stanley Kubrick did it all. Taking every genre and style of film and presenting them in his own unique and masterful way. Shifting from clever story-telling, to all out aesthetic orgasms, to the truly terrifying, to insanely hilarious, to bitterly thought-provoking moments, between single films :drama: let alone his complete oeuvre as a whole. I'd be hard pressed to find another director that had such a wide-ranging spread of "cinema".

 

Filmography

• 1999 Eyed Wide Shut
• 1987 Full Metal Jacket
• 1980 The Shining
• 1975 Barry Lyndon
• 1971 A Clockwork Orange
• 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• 1962 Lolita
• 1960 Spartacus
• 1957 Paths of Glory
• 1956 The Killing
• 1955 Killer's Kiss
• 1953 Fear and Desire

 

He single-handedly got me into cinema, so i'll always respect how he managed to completely transform the way i view and enjoy the art form. From his earlier films where you can see glimpses of the master, right to his universally praised "classics", how many have you seen?

 

Close Eyes:

 

#4 Stanley Kubrick

#3 Lars Von Trier

#2 Alfred Hitchcock

#1 Quentin Tarantino

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I'll join you, I forgot about this :P

 

I don't have a whole lot new to say, but from what I've seen of him, he is truly groundbreaking. Particularly impressive that he seems to move wildly between genres - horror, comedy, sci-fi etc. and manage to fit in thought-provoking social commentary in all of them.

 

Love his filming style too, always feels so tense and as if you're waiting for the big shock to happen, only for it to keep on going, making it all the more watchable (if that makes sense?)

 

I've only seen the classics alas: Clockwork..., 2001, Dr StrangeLove & The Shining - all such complex films to analyse in one go, but all wonderful.

 

Sorry Bal :heart:, didn't see this 'till now!

 

I'm surprised to see I've seen all his films from Path of Glory onward... he really is such a diverse director, crossing genres as Chez says, without losing his directorial stamp. There's always something quite cool, observational, eerie about his work - the characters might get all bothered about politics or science or emotion, but he always seems on the outside of it, not swept up in any frenzied point-making.

 

My favourite is actually the reviled Eyes Wide Shut - such a fascinating twist on a real, peculiar couple, Nicole's best work at that point as well, and so gripping throughout. Also adore The Shining - Shelley Duvall is just spectacular, and the production work on it is so gorgeous. There are quite a few of his films I've not cared for on first viewing, but changed my mind on returning to them - films of many layers and qualities, for sure.

His mastery over any and every genre is why i hail him as the greatest. It does really get going from 'Paths of Glory' onwards but the early works are still highly watchable and have some key starter ingredients for what is to flower in his later films.

 

I first watched '2001' and not before or since has a film affected me the way it did. I spoke for around 3 hours with my brother about what we thought it was all about and following that we both became avid film viewers so it will always be one of those special moments for me. The sheer iconic-ness of the big moments, but also the tender touches and the technological achievements, the trippy final few scenes and then the ending! I followed that up by watching them all sporadically starting with 'A Clockwork Orange' which is now comfortably my favourite film of all time - it could stay like that forever given that the subject matter of the film continues to remain relevant, much more so in this past decade than it was when he made the film 40 years ago. Visionary through and through.

 

'The Shining' as you said David is carried by Shelley. Her agony coupled with Kubrick's claustrophobic shots and maze-like camera tracking and you're there with her being hunted by Jack. I really, really like 'Eyes Wide Shut' too, but only when i look back and mill over it. It's a nice way to fit in how cold and devoid of passion (in terms of sex and sexuality) practically all of the films he did previously are. And talking of that, there's 'Lolita' *.* one of his most controversial yet utterly fabulous, hilarious and daring pieces (still need to finish reading the book properly, i know it's just as enticing).

 

Also major love for 'Full Metal Jacket', the first half is bonkers and the funniest cinema he's done (away from 'Dr Strangelove') and the second half makes for the most drastic shift. I'd say 'Barry Lyndon' is the only one i don't loon/lust over. So a pretty good hit record for me~

I could talk for hours about them all because they have so much to offer, as well as picking out hundreds of single shots from them that stun/repel/confuse... me.

 

The blu-ray "Visionary Filmmaker Collection" is a must buy. Each film comes with a single word, which simplifies his visions in each, but i think works well to show his breadth of subject matter: taboo, technology, violence, identity, supernatural, war and sex. All simple human conditions that he picks apart so cleverly throughout.

 

And they're all brought to life in the vivid, rich colours & details that he intended them to be viewed in.

I could talk for hours about them all because they have so much to offer, as well as picking out hundreds of single shots from them that stun/repel/confuse... me.

 

The blu-ray "Visionary Filmmaker Collection" is a must buy. Each film comes with a single word, which simplifies his visions in each, but i think works well to show his breadth of subject matter: taboo, technology, violence, identity, supernatural, war and sex. All simple human conditions that he picks apart so cleverly throughout.

 

And they're all brought to life in the vivid, rich colours & details that he intended them to be viewed in.

 

coming round for a blu-ray kubrick night thank you

 

love how visceral all his films are, a lot of the time I don't know why I even like them (the shining!) yet they just get me in the gut. need to get on watching the ones I've not tho esp Lolita.