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2 days ago · 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)92%. #4. Critics Consensus: One of the most influential of all sci-fi films -- and one of the most controversial -- Stanley Kubrick's 2001 is a delicate, poetic meditation on the ingenuity -- and folly -- of mankind. Synopsis: An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this ...
- Fear and Desire
- Killer’S Kiss
- Lolita
- Spartacus
- The Killing
- Paths of Glory
- Dr. Strangelove OR: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
- Full Metal Jacket
- A Clockwork Orange
- Barry Lyndon
It's almost hard to judge Kubrick’s directorial debut Fear and Desire against the rest of his filmography, as the hour-long anti-war film is more or less an extended student short project that’s mostly fascinating in how it predicates his later achievements. Like any great filmmaker, Kubrick didn’t come out of the gate fully formed, and his experim...
Kubrick’s second film is certainly a step up from Fear and Desire, but it was still the work of a developing filmmaker who was more trying to perfect current trends than innovate his own. Compared to the rest of his filmography, Killer’s Kiss is perhaps the biggest outlier. It showed genuine empathy for sympathetic characters, and crafts a tragic s...
Lolita is a fascinating example of Kubrick biting off more than he could chew. On paper, matching the novel filmmaker with the controversial 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokovseemed like a perfect fit, as Kubrick had shown he could adapt great literature and offer his own interpretation. Unfortunately, much of the brilliance of Nabokov’s novel was from...
It's fascinating that a film as iconic as Spartacus is Kubrick’s most compromised work, and although the film is hailed as a classic, is the one film within Kubrick’s filmography where he didn’t have complete artistic control. The importance of Spartacus ranges beyond Kubrick himself; written by Dalton Trumbo amidst the Hollywood blacklisting crisi...
In only a few short parallels, it's easy to see how The Killing is one of the most influential films ever made. Kubrick’s 1956 neo-noir heist thriller tells its robbery plot from multiple perspectives and was among Quentin Tarantino's primary influences for Reservoir Dogs. If you consider how Reservoir Dogs laid the groundwork for Pulp Fiction (and...
Anti-war themes are prevalent within a good portion of Kubrick’s work, and in many ways Paths of Glory is a more mature version of his early attempts to make a statement in Fear and Desire. Kubrick trekked into less ambiguous territory with a grounded narrative set within an actual historical context. Set in World War I, the film follows the trial ...
What has always made Kubrick such a fascinating filmmaker is that despite the dark subject material that he frequently tackles, he’s never failed to have a sense of humor. There are satirical elements woven into all of his films, and unsurprisingly his only outright comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is both...
There is a broad misconception among cinephile circles that Full Metal Jacket is a lesser Kubrick work that only works in its first half. Undoubtedly, the first hour of Kubrick’s 1987 war film includes some of the most powerful imagery of his career as it follows the brutal training process of U.S. Marines as they undergo boot camp training. Lee Er...
The only thing more shocking than the highly disturbing material within A Clockwork Orange is how completely ahead of his time Kubrick was, and how half a decade later his 1971 dystopian classic is just as impactful and relevant (and unfortunately subject to the same debates over whether or not it's “promoting” its characters' behavior). A Clockwor...
It goes without saying that Barry Lyndon is one of the most beautiful-looking movies ever made. Rarely will you find a three-hour film that’s this entertaining, as Barry Lyndon saw Kubrick lampooning the self-seriousness of the cinematic epic with a titular character that’s selfish, repugnant, and generally unlikeable. Ryan O’Neal crafts one of the...
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- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Speaking of anti-war films, Dr. Strangelove finds Stanley Kubrick at his most cynical on the topic.
- Paths of Glory (1957) There's a quote that is often attributed to late French filmmaker François Truffaut: "there's no such thing as an anti-war film."
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Regularly considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, perhaps a more fitting description for 2001: A Space Odyssey would be the most cinematic film ever made.
- Barry Lyndon (1975) Barry Lyndon is one of the most methodically beautiful films ever made. Following the titular character as he wiggles his way up to the top of the aristocracy of 18th-century England, there isn't a single moment in the movie that doesn't feel packed with emotion.
Apr 4, 2019 · 12. Killer’s Kiss (1955) After Fear and Desire failed to get him noticed, Kubrick tried again, this time with a much more marketable proposition: a feature about a washed-up boxer and the dancer ...
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Feb 7, 2021 · Best Stanley Kubrick Movies Ranked. 13. Fear and Desire (1953) The hosts of Welcome to the Basement revisit Kubrick's Fear and Desire. Stanley Kubrick’s directorial feature debut is mighty rough around the edges. In fact, it’s rumored that Kubrick was so disappointed in the final cut of the film that he fought against its circulation.
Here are his 10 best films, ranked. 10. The Killing (1956) Filmed when Kubrick was just 27 years old, The Killing is a clever and visually deft heist noir starring Sterling Hayden. Because of ...
All Stanley Kubrick Movies Ranked. 1. Paths of Glory (1957) Approved | 88 min | Drama, War. After a failed attack on a German position, a general orders three soldiers, chosen at random, court-martialed for cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
