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Stanley Kubrick

Ilana Taieb Hagerty

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 - March 7, 1999) was an American movie director. Kubrick is thought to have been one of the great directors of the 20th century.

He was born in New York City but lived most of his life in England. His movies are respected for their great amount of detail and symbolism. Some of his movies were controversial when they were first shown; A Clockwork Orange was confronted with such critics and negative reactions to the movie in the UK that Stanley Kubrick stopped showing the movie there for over 25 years.

Kubrick was very careful not to present his own views of the meaning of his films and leave them open to interpretation. He explained in a 1960 interview with Robert Emmett Ginna: "One of the things I always find extremely difficult, when a picture's finished, is when a writer or a film reviewer asks, 'Now, what is it that you were trying to say in that picture?' And without being thought too presumptuous for using this analogy, I like to remember what T. S. Eliot said to someone who had asked him—I believe it was The Waste Land—what he meant by the poem. He replied, 'I meant what I said'. If I could have said it any differently, I would have".

Here is a list of Kubrick's films, the ones in red are favorites :

2001: A Space Odyssey (film)

Barry Lyndon

A Clockwork Orange (film)

Day of the Fight

Dr. Strangelove

Eyes Wide Shut

Fear and Desire

Flying Padre

Full Metal Jacket

Killer's Kiss

The Killing (film)

Lolita (1962 film)

Paths of Glory

The Seafarers

The Shining (film)

Spartacus (film)

DO NOTE SOME OF THESE MOVIES MAY NOT BE AGE APPROPRIATE!

Now, to finish lightly, here is a fun fact::

There is a conspiracy theory that says the landing of man on the moon was a movie staged by Kubrick by request of the US government, supposedly to make Russia think they were defeated in the Cold War....