“I think that the best plot is no apparent plot. I like a slow start, the start that gets under the audience”
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was an American filmmaker and photographer. A prominent figure of the New Hollywood era, Kubrick is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers. His films spanned a number of genres and gained recognition for their attention to detail, innovative cinematography, extensive set design, and dark humor.
entertainment · American filmmaker and photographer (1928–1999) · film director · cinematographer · photographer · film producer · screenwriter · film editor · camera operator · executive producer · scenographer · director · also Stanley Kubrick, Kubrick
Born 26 July 1928 · Died 7 March 1999 · Q2001
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“there is no deliberate pattern to the stories that I have chosen to make into films. About the only factor at work each time is that I try not to repeat myself”
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“On the deepest psychological level, the film”
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Far Out Magazine: The 1990s supermodel who refused to go “totally nude” for Stanley Kubrick: “Couldn’t I just wear a little something?”
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YouTube: Stanley Kubrick (Promo) | The Plot Thickens | TCM
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The Hollywood Reporter: Latest TCM ‘Plot Thickens’ Podcast Is a Close-Up of Stanley Kubrick
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Mshale: How Stanley Kubrick Influenced Simone Ashley's Harrowing New Thriller This Tempting Madness Trump, Iran Ceasefire (AklPtIRxoj)
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BroadwayWorld: THE PLOT THICKENS to Return with Stanley Kubrick Season on TCM
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Diario UNO: El misterio que sigue rodeando la muerte de Stanley Kubrick a más de 26 años de su partida
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Far Out Magazine: The surprising 1978 movie Stanley Kubrick called the “most interesting” of the decade
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Far Out Magazine: The “off-beat” actor Stanley Kubrick almost hired for ‘Dr Strangelove’: “He’ll be a fabulous choice”
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Yahoo: Influential Film, Co-Written by Stanley Kubrick, Was Just Crowned the Best Sci-Fi Movie Ever Made
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SensaCine.com.mx: La mejor película bélica de la historia con mucha diferencia sobre el resto. Una obra maestra del cine de guerra dirigida por el legendario Stanley Kubrick
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Yardbarker: Do you know all 20 of these facts about Stanley Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket'?
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Far Out Magazine: “I want you to be big”: Stanley Kubrick, Vincent D’Onofrio, and a silent horror icon
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Terra: Qué ver en Netflix: una de las películas más polémicas de Stanley Kubrick que se encuentra más vigente que nunca
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kpfa.org: "A Complete Stanley Kubrick Retrospective" at BAMPFA
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Epstein Files Ellen DeGeneres and Hundreds of Hollywood VIPs Ate Stanley Kubrick at Satanic Ritual” Not In Files.
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Snopes rated the claim “Archived footage from Stanley Kubrick showed him shooting scenes for the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, proving that it was faked.” False.
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Reported claimRated The man in the video appears to be an actor—not the real Mr Kubrick. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “A video shows director Stanley Kubrick admitting to faking the 1969 moon landings in collaboration with the US Government and NASA.” The man in the video appears to be an actor—not the real Mr Kubrick..
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Snopes rated the claim “Before choosing Jack Nicholson for the role, director Stanley Kubrick considered hiring Robin Williams to play the main character, Jack Torrance, in the horror film "The Shining."” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Director Stanley Kubrick wrote a profanity-laced letter to MGM executive James T. Aubrey warning him not to make a sequel to '2001: A Space Odyssey.'” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Stanley Kubrick admitted in an interview that he helped NASA fake the U.S. moon landings.” False.
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Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2014).
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An exhibition devoted to Kubrick opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and concluded in June 2013
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Taschen published the book Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made, a large volume compilation of literature and source documents from Kubrick
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It was named the sixth-best comedy film of all time by The Guardian
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An exhibition of paintings and photos inspired by Kubrick's films was held in Dublin, Ireland
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Awarded Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2008).
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By the Deutsches Filmmuseum and Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany, in cooperation with Christiane Kubrick and Jan Harlan / The Stanley Kubrick Estate
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Where he used both slit-scan photography and front-screen projection, which won Kubrick his only Oscar for special effects
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Was "at the forefront of Kubrick's mind" when he conceived the film
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Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (2000).
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BAFTA renamed their Britannia lifetime achievement award the "Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award"
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Died 1999-03-07.
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Six days after screening a final cut of Eyes Wide Shut for his family and the film's stars, Kubrick died of a heart attack in his sleep at the age of 70, at his manor house in Childwickbury, Hertfordshire
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Came a few days after he finished editing
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“I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized "realistic" story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its "realist" style.”
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“Opis: na pytanie o to, który z reżyserów był najbardziej apodyktyczny we współpracy nad muzyką do filmu.”
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“Opis: o pracy z reżyserem na planie Lśnienia.”
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“Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.”
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“Think [Schindler's List] was about the Holocaust?... That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. ‘'Schindler’s List’' is about 600 who don’t. Anything else?”
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“Świetny amerykański reżyser, Stanley Kubrick, tuż po ukończeniu Odysei kosmicznej zaczął planować trzygodzinny film, którego bohaterem byłby „arcygeniusz Napoleon Bonaparte”; marzył o tym filmie do samego zgonu (przed śmiercią żałował tylko jednej rzeczy – iż ta idee fixe nie została zrealizowana).”
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“The reason movies are often so bad out here isn't because the people who make them are cynical money hacks. Most of them are doing the very best they can; they really want to make good movies. The trouble is with their heads, not their hearts.”
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“There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.”
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“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
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“Is it good or bad? Is it necessary? Can I get rid of it? Does it work?”
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“One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.”
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Spielberg took the notes left by Kubrick and his writers and composed a new screenplay based on an earlier 90-page story treatment by Ian Watson written under Kubrick's supervision
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Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (1997).
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Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1995).
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When Kubrick was asked about his reputation for excessive takes by Rolling Stone, he replied that it was exaggerated but that when it was true, "[i]t happens when actors are unprepared
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Kubrick ordered the deletion of a final scene, in which the hotel manager Ullman (Barry Nelson) visits Wendy (Shelley Duvall) in hospital, believing it unnecessary after witnessing the audience excitement in cinemas at t
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Was adapted from the novel of the same name by Stephen King
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And became interested in his book Dispatches, about the Vietnam War
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Made his home at Childwickbury Manor with his wife Christiane, and it became his workplace where he centralized the writing, research, editing, and management of his productions
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In 1978, Kubrick moved into Childwickbury Manor in Hertfordshire, a mainly 18th-century stately home, about 30 mi (50 km) north of London.
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Kubrick moved into Childwickbury Manor in Hertfordshire, a mainly 18th-century stately home, about 30 mi (50 km) north of London
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Barry Lyndon (1976).
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“The essence of a dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it is simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.”
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Due to the shooting scenes with English soldiers, he fled Ireland with his family on a ferry from Dún Laoghaire under an assumed identity and resumed filming in England
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Carlos composed and recorded music for the soundtrack of A Clockwork Orange
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969).
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2001: A Space Odyssey was not an immediate hit among critics, who faulted its lack of dialog, slow pacing, and seemingly impenetrable storyline
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To a friend that he had long desired to "make the world's scariest movie, involving a series of episodes that would play upon the nightmare fears of the audience"
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It was considered cutting-edge technology, requiring him to build his own system
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With the excavation of the monolith on the moon, and footage was shot in the Namib desert in early 1967
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for Dr. Strangelove (1965).
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The Kubricks bought Abbots Mead on Barnet Lane, just south-west of the Elstree/Borehamwood studio complex in England
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In 1965, the Kubricks bought Abbots Mead on Barnet Lane, just south-west of the Elstree/Borehamwood studio complex in England.
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To name his favorite films, he listed Federico Fellini's I Vitelloni as first in his Top 10 list
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Kubrick settled in England
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To make Lolita, and Kubrick hired Peter Sellers to star in his next film, Dr
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And envisaged making a "grandiose" epic, with up to 40,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry
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The couple moved to the United Kingdom in 1961 to make Lolita, and Kubrick hired Peter Sellers to star in his next film, Dr.
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Settled into a home at 316 South Camden Drive in Beverly Hills with Harlan's daughter, Katherina, aged six
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Kubrick married Harlan in 1958 and the couple remained together until his death in 1999.
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And the couple remained together until his death in 1999
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During the production of Paths of Glory in Munich in early 1957, Kubrick met and romanced the German actress Christiane Harlan.
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“s suggestion, they hired film noir novelist Jim Thompson to write the dialog for the film—which became The Killing (1956)—about a racetrack robbery gone wrong. Kubrick and Harris moved to Los Angeles and signed with the Jaffe Agency to shoot the picture, which became Kubrick”
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Married in January 1955 and moved to Hollywood in July 1955, where she played a brief part as a ballet dancer in Kubrick's film Killer's Kiss (1955)
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He met his second wife, the Austrian-born dancer and theatrical designer Ruth Sobotka, in 1952.
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They lived together in New York City's East Village beginning in 1952, married in January 1955 and moved to Hollywood in July 1955, where she played a brief part as a ballet dancer in Kubrick's film Killer's Kiss (1955).
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Published photo essay "Chicago-City of Extremes" in Look, which displayed his early talent for creating atmosphere with imagery
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And captured a boxing match and the events leading up to it, featuring American middleweight Walter Cartier
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Kubrick married his high-school sweetheart Toba Metz, a caricaturist, on May 29, 1948, when he was 19.
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Was sent to Portugal to document a travel piece, and later that year covered the Ringling Bros
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Kubrick had obtained a pilot's license in August 1947 and some have claimed that he later developed a fear of flying, stemming from an incident in the early 1950s when a colleague was killed in a plane crash.
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Became an apprentice photographer for Look and later a full-time staff photographer
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But his poor grades, combined with the demand for college admissions from soldiers returning from World War II, eliminated any hope of higher education
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Born 1928-07-26.
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Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Film.
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Studied at William Howard Taft High School.
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Studied at City College of New York.
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Career landmark: Participated in Documenta 6 (tournament / event).
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