Stanley Kubrick/Filmography

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American-born filmmaker who co-wrote, produced, and directed some of the most highly regarded and innovative films ever to be financed by Hollywood studios. For decades now Kubrick has been consistently acclaimed by the world’s most influential film critics and scholars as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.

Introduction: Kubrick’s impact on world cinema

A telling example of Kubrick’s impact on world cinema is the following. In 2002, the British film journal Sight & Sound asked 145 film critics and scholars and 108 film directors from around the world to each submit a list of ten films deemed worthy of inclusion in an ultimate “best films of all time” list. When the lists were collated and the votes tallied, Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey occupied the sixth place on the critics’ list, while Dr. Strangelove occupied the fifth place on the directors’ list. But even this extraordinary achievement is not the most telling point. What may have never before been pointed out is this: Kubrick was the one director with the most variety of films cited in the original hundreds of lists (which were published in the original September 2002 print edition of Sight & Sound). For example, although Citizen Kane graced the top spot on both critics’ and directors’ lists, taking the over two hundred lists as a whole, Kubrick himself via his other films appeared more often than Kane’s director Orson Welles. Kubrick’s name was “spread thin” because some critics cited 2001, while others cited Dr. Strangelove, or A Clockwork Orange, or Barry Lyndon, or The Shining. In the complete lists published in Sight & Sound, Kubrick had more different individual works cited than any other director’s. This can only mean that Stanley Kubrick produced a body of work that, at least according to those participating in the Sight & Sound poll, is second to none.

Bibliography

• Agel, Jerome (ed.) The Making of Kubrick's 2001 (New York: New American Library, 1970).
• Bizony, Piers. 2001: Filming the Future (London: Aurum Press Ltd, 2000).
• Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey (New York: New American Library, 1968).
• Clarke, Arthur C. The Lost Worlds of 2001 (New York: New American Library, 1972).
• Kubrick, Stanley. A Clockwork Orange Screenplay (New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1972).
• Kubrick, Stanley and Frederic Raphael. Eyes Wide Shut (London: Penguin Books, 1999).
• Kubrick, Stanley, Michael Herr and Gustave Hasford. Full Metal Jacket: The Screenplay (New York: Knopf, 1987).
• Modine, Matthew. Full Metal Jacket Diary (New York: Rugged Land, 2005).
• Nelson, Thomas Allen. Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982).
• Raphael, Frederic. Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick (New York: Ballantine Books, 1999)

Filmography

• Day of the Fight (1951)
• Flying Padre (1951)
• The Seafarers (1953)
• Fear and Desire (1953)
• Killer's Kiss (1955)
• The Killing (1956)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Spartacus (1960)
• Lolita (1962)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• The Shining (1980)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

External Links

• What They Say About Stanley Kubrick by Peter Bogdanovich
• Kubrick's Grandest Gamble (Cover Story in Time, December 15, 1975)