Stanley Kubrick
1) The shining
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When a couple takes a job as hotel caretakers for the winter, their young son's psychic powers bring out the evil in the old hotel.
3) Barry Lyndon
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 897
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
A gentlemanly rogue travels the battlefields and parlors of 18th century Europe, determined to make for himself the life of a nobleman through seduction, gambling, and dueling in this methodical film showing the rhythm and life of the period.
4) Filmworker
Author
Language
English
Description
Leon Vitali was a rising British television actor when Stanley Kubrick picked him for the role of Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon. That first encounter with the famed auteur proved decisive - he swiftly resolved to devote the rest of his life working for the director, this time behind the scenes, and took on just about every job available: casting director, acting coach, location scouter, sound engineer, color corrector, A.D., promoter, and eventually...
Author
Language
English
Description
This unique documentary is composed entirely of archival footage and photographs, accompanied by the voice of Stanley Kubrick. Taken from a series of rare interviews, the film provides an opportunity to understand the work of a master filmmaker, giving voice to one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, as well as one of the most controversial and enigmatic.
10) Fear and desire
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
11) Fear and desire
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After surviving a crash landing of their plane, four soldiers find themselves in a forest six miles behind enemy lines and must confront their own fears and desires to survive.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This unique documentary is composed entirely of archival footage and photographs, accompanied by the voice of Stanley Kubrick. Taken from a series of rare interviews, the film provides an opportunity to understand the work of a master filmmaker, giving voice to one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, as well as one of the most controversial and enigmatic.
14) Lolita
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Humbert, a divorced British professor, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte, whom he marries in order that he might pursue her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita.
15) The killing
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A group of small-time crooks plan a daring race-track robbery, but their well-laid plans go awry.
16) Eyes wide shut
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges a New York man into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage and ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery.
17) Spartacus
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story of a gladiator who leads slaves in a rebellion against the power of Rome.
18) Paths of glory
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
20) The Killing
Author
Language
English
Description
With fascinating detail, Stanley Kubrick lays bare the intricate inner-planning of a racetrack heist by a deadly mastermind (Sterling Hayden) and his crew. Co-stars Coleen Gray.