Directed by:
Jan HarlanCast:
Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise, Brian Aldiss, Martin Short, Nicole Kidman, Richard Schickel, Shelley Duvall, Douglas Trumbull, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese (more)VOD (1)
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STANLEY KUBRICK: A LIFE IN PICTURES is a vastly entertaining look at master director Stanley Kubrick, made by the people who loved him most and knew him best. Jan Harlan, who worked with Kubrick for more than 30 years, put the film together with the help of Kubrick's widow, Christiane Kubrick, so it includes fabulous home movies of Kubrick as a young boy, as well as shots of the photographs he took when he worked for Look magazine before beginning his stellar film career. The documentary examines each of Kubrick's films, from the early short DAY OF THE FIGHT and FEAR AND DESIRE through FULL METAL JACKET and EYES WIDE SHUT, interviewing people associated with each project. Harlan also sheds light on some of Kubrick's unfinished works, including ARYAN PAPERS, NAPOLEON, and A.I., which Kubrick wanted Spielberg to direct--and after Stanley's death, Spielberg did indeed make the film, with Harlan serving as a producer. Clips are shown from each film, along with behind-the-scenes footage, both as stills and live action, showing Kubrick on the job, illuminating his work process and revealing him to be more of a much-loved friend and colleague than a reclusive tyrant. And of course, there are plenty of shots of Kubrick with his beloved pets and playing his favorite game, chess, which often made it into his films, however subtly. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Stanley Kubrick
USA
Best movies:
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Lolita (1962)
Tom Cruise
USA
Best movies:
Rain Man (1988)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Brian Aldiss
UK
Martin Short
Canada
Best movies:
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Innerspace (1987)
Merlin (1998) (TV movie)
Nicole Kidman
USA
Best movies:
Cold Mountain (2003)
The Others (2001)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Richard Schickel
USA
Best movies:
Ask the Dust (2006)
Shelley Duvall
USA
Best movies:
The Shining (1980)
Annie Hall (1977)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
Douglas Trumbull
USA
Steven Spielberg
USA
Best movies:
Michael Jackson: HIStory on Film - Volume II (1997) (video compilation)
Barbra: The Concert (1994) (concert)
Jaws (1975)
Martin Scorsese
USA
Best movies:
Raging Bull (1980)
Pavlova: A Woman for All Time (1983)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Sydney Pollack
USA
Best movies:
Barbra: The Concert (1994) (concert)
Tootsie (1982)
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Alan Parker
UK
Best movies:
The Life of David Gale (2003)
The Commitments (1991)
Angela's Ashes (1999)
Jack Nicholson
USA
Best movies:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Shining (1980)
The Departed (2006)
Matthew Modine
USA
Best movies:
Stranger Things (2016) (series)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Malcolm McDowell
UK
Best movies:
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Long Ago Tomorrow (1971)
Paul Mazursky
USA
Best movies:
Carlito's Way (1993)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Antz (1998)
Woody Allen
USA
Best movies:
Love and Death (1975)
Annie Hall (1977)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Peter Ustinov
UK
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Spartacus (1960)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Marie Windsor
USA
Best movies:
The Killing (1956)
The Outfit (1973)
The Hucksters (1947)
Keir Dullea
USA
Best movies:
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Devil in the Brain (1972)