Stanley KuBLOG: Eyes Wide Shut – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Eyes Wide Shut opened at the Venice Film Festival and was the last film I saw in England before I moved to Italy in 1999. I saw it again...
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Stanley KuBLOG: Full Metal Jacket – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Full Metal Jacket has the dubious honour of being the first 18 certificate film I saw at the cinema. I was fifteen years old and already a...
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Stanley KuBLOG: The Shining – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Approaching The Shining is daunting. Of all Kubrick’s films, it is the most discussed. 2001 and Dr Strangelove, discussion feels...
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Stanley KuBLOG: Barry Lyndon – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick’s tenth feature film. It came after a series of magnificent successes capped by the trauma of A...
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Stanley KuBLOG: A Clockwork Orange – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
A Clockwork Orange is what happens when a master filmmaker decides to deliberately make an ugly film. Following the ecstatic star journey...
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Stanley KuBLOG – 2001: A Space Odyssey – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
I have a relationship with 2001: a Space Odyssey. It was the first film I really booked on TV to see. As a kid, I was going to my uncle...
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Stanley KuBLOG: Dr Strangelove (or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb) – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Dr. Strangelove is damned near perfect. Hell, it simply is perfect. From the title with its death wish Nazi sentiment matched with the...
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Stanley KuBLOG: Lolita – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Lolita is an odd film but is a first for Kubrick. His first non-genre film, the adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel, tells...
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Stanley KuBLOG: Spartacus – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
The difficulty of Spartacus is that for Kubrick it was definitely a promotion but at the same time also a demotion. The budget was bigger,...
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Stanley KuBLOG: Paths of Glory – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Stanley Kubrick’s fourth feature film Paths of Glory is his first to establish him as the complete product. This is the first of his...
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