Lolita's boundary-breaking approach to storytelling and its unflinching examination of its characters' dark desires make it a truly unique entry in the canon of 1960s teen movies, and a film that continues to captivate and challenge audiences. Released: 1962 Directed by: Stanley Kubrick Dig ...
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Nearly a decade ahead of Star Wars –and a year before humans walked on the Moon – Stanley Kubrick expanded the possibilities of big-screen space travel. Where science fiction had traditionally been the preserve of schlocky B-movies, the legendary director assembled a spectacular vision of a fu...
“Stanley Kubrick examines the methods by which ordinary, mostly decent young men can be turned into killing machines. The war just happens to be the late disaster in Vietnam, and the victims just happen to be United States Marine Corps recruits. However, without generalizing, the film’s mea...
Emeric Pressburger, Karel Reisz, Joseph Losey, Stanley Kubrick… This list isn’t short of writers and directors who brought an outsider’s sensibility to British movies. The young Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski came to London to make his second film – and first in English – and cast 21-...
Stanley Kubrick only made one comedy but when that one is Dr. Strangelove, what’s the point of even trying another? Seizing upon Cold War anxieties and dripping with cynicism, and initially intended as a serious thriller, based on the Peter George novel ‘Red Alert’, it wrings nervous lau...
The movie: Even if you haven’t watched Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, you’ll know of The Shining. You’ll know Jack Nicholson’s (apparently ad-libbed) "Heeeeeeeere’s Johnny" and you might even be aware that if you’re handed the keys to room 237 in a hotel, you might want ...
Stephen King hates it, of course. Contemporary critics were lukewarm. Initial box-office returns were middling. The Academy Awards flatly ignored it. Stanley Kubrick, unbelievably, was even nominated for a 'Worst Director' award at the inaugural Razzies. (He 'lost' to Robert Greenwald'sXanadu)...
The movie: Even if you haven’t watched Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, you’ll know of The Shining. You’ll know Jack Nicholson’s (apparently ad-libbed) "Heeeeeeeere’s Johnny" and you might even be aware that if you’re handed the keys to room 237 in a hotel, you might want ...
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