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).