Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was one of the great movie directors, surely the greatest living director before his untimely death last week. His movies teach us about ourselves, not through history lessons, but through his use of the medium as a tool for communicating. Watch DR. STRANGELOVE and you know what it was like to live at the height of the cold war. PATHS OF GLORY will change the mind of any young man anxious to go off and fight a war. THE KILLING shows us how senseless crime is and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE has us asking "where did we go wrong?" People don't always understand Kubrick's films. When asked about the meaning of 2001: A SPACE ODESSEY, Kubrick said "How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover."

Stanley Kubrick died Sunday, March 7th, at his home in England. He was 70 years old. His newest film, EYES WIDE SHUT, is slated for release in July 1999. His next film, AI, was going to be his last and most ambitious movie yet. We will have to imagine what it might have been.

Below is a list of Stanley Kubrick related web sites.

Stanley Kubrick, the master filmmaker

Roger Ebert on Kubrick

Kubrick on the Web

Internet Movie Database

Stanley Kubrick

Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide

Stanley Kubrick

Kubrick Homages

Kubrick, the Psychological side

Kubrick references in The Simpson's

1928 - 1999

``I was aware that I didn't know anything about making films, but I believed I couldn't make them any worse than the majority
of films I was seeing. Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie.''

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera
and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

A list of Stanley Kubrick's movies

Eyes Wide Shut (opens 1999)

Day of the Fight (1950)

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