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Stanley Kubrick

American Filmmaker

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Stanley Kubrick revolutionized Hollywood with movies like Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, and electrified audiences with The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. David Mikics takes listeners on a deep dive into Kubrick's life and work, illustrating his intense commitment to each of his films.

Kubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor's son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self-taught filmmaker and self-proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood mainstream. Kubrick's Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea of himself as outsider. Obsessed with rebellion against authority, war, and male violence, Kubrick was himself a calm, coolly masterful creator and a talkative, ever-curious polymath immersed in friends and family.

Drawing on interviews and new archival material, Mikics for the first time explores the personal side of Kubrick's films.
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      David Mikics's focused, fast-paced examination of film director Stanley Kubrick's life and career is highly entertaining. Steven Jay Cohen's direct and sensitive performance makes Kubrick more approachable and human. The volume is chronologically organized by film production and offers an in-depth look behind the scenes of films as diverse as DR. STRANGELOVE and EYES WIDE SHUT. Equally interesting are the projects Kubrick chose to postpone or decline. Sadly, Cohen pronounces the surname of actor Keir Dullea in varying ways on different occasions. Nonetheless, this is a worthwhile listening experience for those who wish to learn more about a great American director. W.A.G. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 15, 2020
      The life and work of movie director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) are briefly glossed in this compact, informative work from literature scholar Mikics (Bellow’s People). Drawing on Kubrick’s archive, interviews with his friends and family, and previous studies of his work, the book skims the filmmaker’s Bronx childhood and early photography career, and focuses on his films, from his first short, Day of the Fight, to the posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut. In Mikics’s account, Kubrick was a perfectionist, demanding from his financial backers, in his own words, “complete total final annihilating artistic control.” However, he could also harness the power of spontaneity; his film shoots resembled an “experiment on his actors, waiting to see where more and more takes might lead them.” Off set, he was equally attentive and obsessive; a screenwriter on Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick’s film about the Vietnam War, described their working relationship as “a single phone call lasting three years.” There are welcome insights into Kubrick’s career, from his unrealized desire to make a film about the Holocaust to his decision to leave the eroticism out of his 1962 adaptation of Lolita, because otherwise “the film could not have been made.” Kubrick fans will enjoy this brisk but thorough biography of a consummate filmmaker. Agent: Chris Calhoun, Chris Calhoun Agency.

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