astanleykubrick: A memorial of Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) in trade magazines. Hollywood Studios and agencies mourned the loss of the director in Daily Variety and Screen International in March 1999. MGM/United Artists distributed Killer’s Kiss, The Killing, Paths of Glory and financed and distributed 2001: a Space Odyssey. Universal Pictures…

smokeypsd: a-bittersweet-life: Director Stanley Kubrick with Arthur C. Clarke, the writers of 2001: A Space Odyssey. My favourite picture of the two of them together.

There has always been violence in art. There is violence in the Bible, violence in Homer, violence in Shakespeare, and many psychiatrists believe that it serves as a catharsis rather than a model. I think the question of whether there has been an increase in screen violence and, if so, what effect this has had,…

the60sbazaar: Stanley Kubrick and Sue Lyon on the set of Lolita  Image courtesy of gonemovies.com

strangewood: “The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.” Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) Here here, reviews are forgotten, even more a product…

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a…