Stanley Kubrick was a directorial genius. Of his sort there was only a handful, like Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock or François Truffaut. All of his films have been tremendously influential, like their literary source. Kubrick himself considered THE KILLING to be his first real film, although KILLER'S KISS was his first full-length feature. His best film may be 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, a science-fiction film, which redefined the genre and remains today as one of the greatest films ever made. Nobody should miss the fine documentary STANLEY KUBRICK: A LIFE IN PICTURES (2001).
Filmography:
Day of the Fight (1950; dir; short film)
Flying Padre (1951; dir; short film)
The Seafarers (1952; dir; short film)
Fear and Desire (1953; dir, coscr, prod, cin, edit)
Killer's Kiss (1955; dir, coscr, sty, coprod, cin, edit)
The Killing (1956; dir, scr; based on the novel Clean Break by Lionel White)
Paths of Glory (1957; dir, coscr; based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb)
Spartacus (1960; dir; based on the novel by Howard Fast)
Lolita (1962; dir; based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov)
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to ... (1964; dir, coscr, prod; based on Peter George's Red Alert)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; dir, coscr, prod, cosfx; based on the story 'The Sentinel' by A. C. Clarke)
A Clockwork Orange (1971; dir, scr, prod; based on the novel by Anthony Burgess)
Barry Lyndon (1975; dir, scr, prod; based on the novel by William M. Thackeray)
The Shining (1980; dir, coscr, prod; based on the novel by Stephen King)
Full Metal Jacket (1987; dir, coscr, prod; based on a novel by Gustav Hasford)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999; dir, coscr, prod; based on Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle)
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001; based on his treatment)
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