Stanley Kubrick Director

By Alexander Walker, Sybil Taylor, Ulrich Ruchti

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An exclusive window on one of the most brilliant-and most secretive-filmmakers in history. No moviemaker has kept his world so tightly sealed against intruders as Stanley Kubrick. While many of his films have turned into modern metaphors-we speak of "a 2001 world" or "a Clockwork Orange society"-the man himself has…

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1 author picked Stanley Kubrick Director as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I find in this early book on Kubrick by someone who was his friend an in-depth analysis of the director’s style.

But given that the author also knew Kubrick, we found that it was filled with insight from someone who had visited his house and got to know his family. This, until recently, was incredibly rare in the writing about Kubrick.

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