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Stanley Kubrick's Personal Papers Reveal New Insights

telegraph.co.uk — Scripts, letters, designs, props, photographs – as many as 900 boxes of material belonging to one of the greats of cinema have now been made available to a wider audience. Stanley Kubrick's widow, Christiane, gives us a fascinating insight into the public and private worlds of an inspirational film-maker

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  • Skab, on 07/08/2008, -6/+21To bad Michael Bay will prolly buy some these scripts.
    • Kbriggs, on 07/08/2008, -0/+7why would you even put ideas like this into open air?
    • whatthefu, on 07/08/2008, -0/+7I shudder to think what it would be like if Michael Bay had done A Clockwork Orange.
    • LoveWidescreen, on 07/08/2008, -0/+7"To bad", "prolly", "some these", *and* "Michael Bay"? All in the same sentence?

      {smashes head on desk and whimpers}
  • adougy, on 07/08/2008, -2/+39It's safe to say that Stanley Kubrick was one of the greatest director's of our time.
  • lateralus, on 07/08/2008, -1/+13As long as nobody with last name Bruckheimer lays hands on this, the world is okay.
  • thegreenspanput, on 07/08/2008, -9/+3As much as I loved Clockwork, Lolita, Shining, and Strangelove, I just didn't get Eyes Wide Shut and I was disappointed to learn that he became good friends with Tom Cruise.
    • Kanele, on 07/08/2008, -2/+1same here, loved ALL kubricks' movies but Eyes wide shut
    • Kbriggs, on 07/08/2008, -3/+2I'm sure one day it'll all make sense. He did make the film in his dying days.
    • xXMetalJesusXx, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2It was his return to America, more notably New York City where he made many of his early Film Noir films. In terms of story, I didn't care for it, but the "chase" scene into the labyrinth of the New York Streets at night was a great way to tie together all of his films.

    • nycmac247, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1What you didn't get was the EWS is real - upper east side _old_ money can do some pretty freaky ***** when they're not in the city.
      really.
    • badollet, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3Re Eyes Wide Shut: Check out "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema," where Zizek offers a really good reading of the movie. He basically claims that the wife reveals her fantasy to the husband, and since it isn't about him, he has to spend the entire movie trying to reconstruct it in his mind. The fantasy he comes up with though is hideously unsexy, thus reinforcing the idea that man can't fully grasp feminine desire. There's even a movie version of the lecture on youtube, etc.

      I still think the movie kind of sucks, though. Probably because I can't look at Tom Cruise without thinking about cults ruled by space aliens.
  • btschul, on 07/08/2008, -1/+11I can not think of any other director in history that has consistently cranked out excellent, amazing films like Kubrick did.
    • woodrownd, on 07/08/2008, -5/+7The Coens
      • petebot, on 07/08/2008, -3/+1Dude's right, digg him UP
      • btschul, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4While almost all of their movies are excellent, and Raising Arizona is one of my favorite movies, there will always be this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335245/
      • Scottathon, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Intolerable Cruelty was a bit of a stinker too.
      • creepermclurker, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4I like the Coen brothers very much but I don't really think of them as in the same league as Stanley Kubrick.
    • timothycrash01, on 07/08/2008, -1/+3Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Ingmar Bergman, John Ford. I'd say Hitchcock, but he had a few bad films. But then again, he made almost 6 times as many films as Kubrick.
  • soursandy, on 07/08/2008, -10/+5I wonder if they reveal that he turned into a dirty old man during 'eyes wide shut'
    • AceTracer, on 07/08/2008, -0/+9As compared to Lolita or A Clockwork Orange?
  • AceTracer, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2If you listen carefully you can hear John Gruber creaming his pants.
  • koreaski, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2oh! here's a long hidden away polaroid of harvey keitel jerking off into nichole kidmans hair. excellent find
  • Kanele, on 07/08/2008, -2/+2I hope there are explanations on nasa's movie :V
  • BrokenVisage, on 07/08/2008, -4/+1His widow.. Christiane? Is that pronounced how I think it is?
  • desertDenizen, on 07/08/2008, -1/+18Single best cut in cinema history: 2001, ape throwing bone --> space ship.

    /awed
    • zoethebitch, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Not a space ship -- an orbiting nuclear bomb.

      4 million years of evolution of weapons in one cut.
      • desertDenizen, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Wow. I never knew that. Important distinction, btw.
  • Garlik, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2Anybody else notice the lack of eyebrows?
  • tehhowch, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2I was hoping they would explain the acid trip that is the end of 2001...
    • MillionsLivio, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Explaining it would contradict the purpose, that is why Kubrick never did.
    • ConceptualTrap, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3You could, I don't know, google it.
    • Threlly1, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2The sentients who placed the monoliths, did not realise man would have artificial intelligence in tow, so, in order to save Bowmans life AND complete the next evolutionary step, they take him across the Universe to their reality and change Bowman to become the next step in Human development.
      In the book, during the Hyperspace jump, the pod stops off at a sort of interchange, where giant moon sized spaceships cast off by the sentients millions of years ago, lie abandoned in space, from a time when the sentients made the transition from biological/machine corporeal to a non-corporeal existence.
      The reason Bowman jumps in time at the end, and exists in a strange dreamlike place, is that is the shell his mind has placed on an environment devoid of thermodynamics and three dimensional space, its his brains coping mechanism.
  • CapeKid, on 07/08/2008, -3/+1Give the guy in the video a tissue please.
  • petebot, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Cue the tympani...
  • MillionsLivio, on 07/08/2008, -0/+5As an aspiring director, Stanley Kubrick captivated me into film, one of the greatest (the greatest, in my opinion) directors in cinema.
  • magneteye, on 07/08/2008, -2/+4Stanley Kubrick was an American great.
  • scoobycarolan, on 07/08/2008, -9/+2Buried for MrBabyMan
    • laconix, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4Buried because you buried something because you think it's cool. It isn't. GTFO and die.
  • Ramble, on 07/08/2008, -0/+5I am a big, big Kubrick fan, a ton of his films are some of my all time favourite.
  • digghasnoethics, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2"Have you seen The Shining?" she asks, while serving lunch. "The table we are sat at now is the one Jack Nicholson types the novel on in the film."
  • boardthis, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1cool stuff! his widow seems like a very interesting lady and i can't think of many things i'd rather do than to sit at the desk where jack nicholson typed the novel, or at least tried to type, in the shining and listen to her stories.
  • pedepy, on 07/08/2008, -0/+7i bet it read:

    all work and no play make Stanley a dull boy.
    all work and no play make Stanley a dull boy.
    all work and no play make Stanley a dull boy.
    all work and no play make Stanley a dull boy.
    all work and no play make Stanley a dull boy.
    all work and no play make Stanley a dull boy.
    all work and no play make Stanley a dull boy.
    all work and no play make Stanley a dull boy.
    all work and no play make Stanley a dull boy.
    all work and no play make Stanley a dull boy.


    ?
  • rowlodge, on 07/08/2008, -1/+1wanna see whats in his closet.
  • monkbit, on 07/08/2008, -0/+8I like how some people's reaction to the excessive violence in A Clockwork Orange was to make death threats.
  • opensourcer, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1He is an cultural icon. His vision changed the way we see this world. His works might be limited but each and everyone of them is a classic. He is a legion.
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