Films byTexts by Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was an American filmmaker, photographer, screenwriter and producer. Kubrick worked as a photographer for Look magazine before he started making films in the 1950s. His best-known and most celebrated films include Spartacus (1960), Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), A Clockwork Orange (1971), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). His thirteen feature films in a 46-year career have made him one of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century.

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2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick, 1968, 142’

After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins - a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.

 

“After 2001, science fiction is dead.”

Ridley Scott

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The Shining
Stanley Kubrick, 1980, 146’

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.