Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick, klasik bilim kurgu başyapıtı olan insanlığın doğası üzerine bir yorum niteliğindeki 2001: Uzay Macerası ile film yapımının sınırlarını yeniden tanımladı. Taş Devri Dünyası: Yanı başlarında beliren esrarengiz siyah bir taş, primatların ilk defa alet kullanmasını sağlayarak akıl için ilk adımlar atılmıştır. 1999: Dünya’nın ay astronotları başka bir esrarengiz siyah taş ortaya çıkarırlar. 2001: Dünya ve Jüpiter arasında, uzay aracının akıllı bilgisayarı, insan ekibinin çoğunu öldüren bir hata yapar ve ardından hatasını gizlemek için öldürmeye devam eder. Zamanın Ötesi: Jüpiter’e yapılan yolculuktan tek sağ kalan, bir sonraki insanlık düzeyine yükselir.

Bill Harford ve karısı Alice Harford'ın dış dünyaya mutlu bir yansıyan bir evlilikleri vardır. İlişkilerinde her şey yolunda gibi görünmektedir. Bir gün katıldıkları bir davette Alice, başka erkeklerle sohbetlere dalar. Bunu fark eden Bill, hem sinirlenir hem de yaşanan bu duruma tuhaf bir tepki gösterir. Bill, yaşanan o geceden sonra kimliğini cinselliğe emanet edecektir. Oldukça tuhaf düşüncelerle örülü bir cinsellik dünyasına doğru savrulacaktır.

Yönetmen Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket filminde savaşın ve askerliğin, insanların duygularını nasıl yok ettiğini gün yüzüne çıkarıyor. 18 yaşındaki acemi bir askerin gözünden, acemi askerlerin Deniz Kuvvetleri'ndeki ilk günlerinden başlayarak nasıl insani duygularının yok edildiğini ve bireysellikten çıkarılıp Deniz Piyadesi olarak nasıl tekrardan yaratıldıklarını anlatıyor. Film, 1968 yılında Vietnam harekatı için yetiştirilen askerlerin ruhlarında bıraktığı zarar ve savaşın nasıl insanlık dışı bir şey olduğunu açığa çıkartıyor. Gustav Hasford'un "The Short-Timers" isimli romanından uyarlanmıştır.

An in-depth documentary on the 1987 classic Full Metal Jacket, shaped around over thirty new interviews with Kubrick collaborators, including Matthew Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Arliss Howard, as well as previously unheard audio interviews with Kubrick and never-before-released audio of the director rehearsing with the film’s actors at Pinewood Studios in 1986.

With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.

The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), one of the greatest in history, but also one of the most reserved, gave few interviews throughout his long career, and none of them were filmed. A first-person journey through his life and work, based on a recorded conversation with French film critic Michel Climent.

The untold and intimate life story of one of the greatest American photographers of all time, Bert Stern. After working alongside Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine, Stern became an original Madison Avenue 'mad man', his images helping to create modern advertising. Ground-breaking photos of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe and Twiggy, coupled with his astonishing success in advertising, minted Stern as a celebrity in his own right.

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness of some of the great animation pioneers who have worked in Britain – trailblazing talents such as Len Lye, John Halas and Joy Batchelor, Joanna Quinn, and Bristol’s world-conquering Aardman Animations.

The making of Stanley Kubrick's classic space epic, presented by James Cameron, including unseen footage.

A look at the visual design of the film The Shining (1980).

He is considered by many the greatest film director the medium has ever known. Yet in a 45-year career, Stanley Kubrick's films number only a dozen. That he strove for perfection is well established. What is less known is that he lavished years of energy on several films that never saw the flickering light of the silver screen. Through interviews and abundant archival materials, this documentary examines these "lost" films in depth to discover what drew Kubrick to these projects, the work he did to prepare them for production, and why they ultimately were abandoned.

Directed and edited by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick, this film offers a look behind the scenes during the making of The Shining.

18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We've Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as one of our last masters, the most corrosive, the funniest as well. And the most forceful. The director of The Sorrow and the Pity shares with us stories of his exceptionally rich life in this light-hearted yet bitter escapade though the century and the movies. Son of the great Max Ophuls, he is generous in his admiration. We also meet Jeanne Moreau, Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and of course François Truffaut. There are no great filmmakers without a memory, so here is the memory shop of Marcel Ophuls.

A dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange. Where a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five seasons" theme--fall, winter, spring, summer--plus a "fabulous fifth season". The main music is set to the rousing theme from "The Magnificent Yankee" composed by David Raksin in 1950. The promo is narrated by some of the best voice-over actors of the time, and is an excellent time capsule of a by-gone era.

A short documentary about the making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and its impact on the '60s view of the future.

Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.

An overview of the making of, and a look at the continuing popularity of, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

The incredible story of the Italian Emilio D'Alessandro, personal driver of the great director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), who met Emilio by chance in London in 1971 and hired him, thus establishing a deep friendship that lasted thirty years and helped create four masterpieces of cinema. A moving tale about two seemingly opposing people who found their ideal travel companion far away from home…

Stanley Kubrick’s debut documentary, following Irish-American middleweight boxer Walter Cartier on April 17, 1950—the day of his bout with Bobby James. The film traces Cartier’s quiet morning rituals, training, and anxious hours before the match, culminating in his swift victory that night in Newark. Opening with a brief history of boxing, Kubrick’s tightly crafted short captures the discipline, isolation, and tension behind a fighter’s daily routine.

The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.

Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on his show Spécial cinéma. Between intimate confessions from actors and immersion in the world of the greatest filmmakers, Christian Defaye took viewers on a journey into the fascinating world of cinema for nearly thirty years.