Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
by Jan Harlan
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Director: Jan HarlanBrand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Jan Harlan
Narrator: Tom Cruise
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 142 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 118759
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- The moviemaker?s career comes into sharp focus in this compelling documentary narrated by Tom Cruise. Fascinating footage glimpses Kubrick in his early years, at work on film sets and at home, augmented by candid commentary from collaborators, colleagues and family. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR Age: 085391187592 UPC: 085391187592 Manufacturer No:
Movie Reviews of Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Movie Review: Stanley Kubrick:His Life And His World
Summary: 5 Stars
All one has to do is take one look at a picture of the huge eyed,bearded picture of Stanley Kubrick starring from behind his camera to figure out that you were looking at a man of quite intensity,kind of the same quality one gets some his movies. Admittedly I haven't seen all of them but after seeing The Shining several times and after uncountable viewings of 2001 - A Space Odyssey this was the next place I wanted to go.Who was Stanley Kubrick?What forces motivated his cinematic brilliance?Is it something anyone needs to know? None of those questions are hard to answer in simple sentences. So the best that could be done on this documentary,narrated by Tom Cruise is to examine what was known about him:his early life,marriage and most importantly stories about his classic films as told by the actors,directors and composers.By the end everyone from Jack Nicholson to Wendy Carlos and even Cruise himself have a whole collection of tales about what the movie making experience was like with Kubrick.One of the most interesting parts of this is of course the biggest selling point:archival film footage of Stanley on the set of some of his films and even with his family. Hollywood legend is filled with a lot of talk of Kubrick as reclusive,demanding and difficult and you can even see in some footage with Shelly Duval and even two of his daughters who,even for such a quiet voiced man how he could have his whimsical notions of passion and fussiness. Even still they were expressed not as hostility but either as the natural function of a director looking for the right quality for his films or just someone trying to make a clear point. All of his films from his earliest Fear and Desire ( The Trap ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Italy ] all the way up through Eyes Wide Shut (R-Rated Edition) are discussed in great detail,since these reveal more about Kubricks artistic temperment and visions then his own personal life,as unknown as it often was ever could. Even though the focus is always more on his films a lot really is actually revealed about who he was through them.Few American filmakers outside maybe Orson Wells have a directorial style and overall quality that is as uniqely their own as Kubrick's.Even though,unlike Wells Kubrick could not add "actor" to his list of different talents the look and feeling of his films always made it more or less seem that Kubrick,as enigmatic as he was WAS in fact an actor in his films in terms of the cinematic qualities he made so distinctive. This documentary will not only draw you to his work you may have missed but point out that,the more you see them you realize how each becomes a different film each time because they can hit you in a different way because the general concepts of many of his films are so variable. Considering that Kubrick got his start as an ameatur photographer and filmaker,and that I myself am a longtime photographer just now getting seriously interested in move making to an extent this documentary really shines a light on some of the simple little qualities:lighting,sound,music and the careful placing of dialog that can really work to make a good film brilliant,if in the right hands. And it will bring you as much to a certain place as a genuine Kubrick film itself will,and in the same manner too still leave you with no open and shut resolution.You watch the movie and choose the ending that works best. That to me was Kubrick.
Summary of Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
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