Directed by:
Gregory MonroCinematography:
Radosław ŁadczukCast:
Stanley Kubrick (a.f.), Michel Ciment (a.f.), Malcolm McDowell (a.f.), Jack Nicholson (a.f.), Shelley Duvall (a.f.), Sterling Hayden (a.f.) (more)VOD (2)
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A huge amount has been written about Stanley Kubrick’s filmography and numerous documentaries have covered his works, yet this titan of world cinema gave few interviews during his career. Nevertheless, Kubrick afforded unique access on various occasions to distinguished French critic Michel Ciment, resulting in hours of audio recordings of interviews which form the basis of Monro’s original portrait of the creator of such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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I've seen only three films by Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon and The Shining, but considering that he made "only" thirteen in his lifetime, that's almost a quarter of his output, and since I was extremely interested in the three films I saw, I didn't want to miss a portrait of an auteur who consistently avoided interviews and interpretations of his work. The documentary artfully compiles sections of Kubrick's films with archival interviews with the people involved in them, with the voice of the director himself answering questions from Michel Ciment. I was aware of the perfectionism, the high expectations on the people that worked with him and the visionary processes involved in making the films, but I was still informatively enriched by many new insights. I liked how the sequences were interspersed with shots of a room that functioned as a sort of repository for artifacts from Kubrick's films. I'm totally tempted to watch any of the remaining ten films!
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