Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
by Jan Harlan

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Actor: Katharina Kubrick, Ken Adam, Malcolm McDowell, Margaret Adams, Tom Cruise
Director: Jan Harlan
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Manuel Harlan
Producer: Jan Harlan
Editor: Melanie Viner-Cuneo
Producer: Anthony Frewin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 142 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

DVD Review: Great Kubrick Doc
Summary: 5 Stars

If you're a fan of either the movies of Stanley Kubrick or have an interest in film making, I'd recommend this. I love it. I expected it to be good, in that I love Clockwork Orange, 2001, the Shining and Full Metal Jacket, but this doc far exceeded my expectations.

DVD Review: Stanley Kubrick:His Life And His World
Summary: 5 Stars

All one has to do is take one look at a picture of the huge eyed,bearded picture of Stanley Kubrick starring from behind his camera to figure out that you were looking at a man of quite intensity,kind of the same quality one gets some his movies. Admittedly I haven't seen all of them but after seeing The Shining several times and after uncountable viewings of 2001 - A Space Odyssey this was the next place I wanted to go.Who was Stanley Kubrick?What forces motivated his cinematic brilliance?Is it something anyone needs to know? None of those questions are hard to answer in simple sentences. So the best that could be done on this documentary,narrated by Tom Cruise is to examine what was known about him:his early life,marriage and most importantly stories about his classic films as told by the actors,directors and composers.By the end everyone from Jack Nicholson to Wendy Carlos and even Cruise himself have a whole collection of tales about what the movie making experience was like with Kubrick.One of the most interesting parts of this is of course the biggest selling point:archival film footage of Stanley on the set of some of his films and even with his family. Hollywood legend is filled with a lot of talk of Kubrick as reclusive,demanding and difficult and you can even see in some footage with Shelly Duval and even two of his daughters who,even for such a quiet voiced man how he could have his whimsical notions of passion and fussiness. Even still they were expressed not as hostility but either as the natural function of a director looking for the right quality for his films or just someone trying to make a clear point. All of his films from his earliest Fear and Desire ( The Trap ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Italy ] all the way up through Eyes Wide Shut (R-Rated Edition) are discussed in great detail,since these reveal more about Kubricks artistic temperment and visions then his own personal life,as unknown as it often was ever could. Even though the focus is always more on his films a lot really is actually revealed about who he was through them.Few American filmakers outside maybe Orson Wells have a directorial style and overall quality that is as uniqely their own as Kubrick's.Even though,unlike Wells Kubrick could not add "actor" to his list of different talents the look and feeling of his films always made it more or less seem that Kubrick,as enigmatic as he was WAS in fact an actor in his films in terms of the cinematic qualities he made so distinctive. This documentary will not only draw you to his work you may have missed but point out that,the more you see them you realize how each becomes a different film each time because they can hit you in a different way because the general concepts of many of his films are so variable. Considering that Kubrick got his start as an ameatur photographer and filmaker,and that I myself am a longtime photographer just now getting seriously interested in move making to an extent this documentary really shines a light on some of the simple little qualities:lighting,sound,music and the careful placing of dialog that can really work to make a good film brilliant,if in the right hands. And it will bring you as much to a certain place as a genuine Kubrick film itself will,and in the same manner too still leave you with no open and shut resolution.You watch the movie and choose the ending that works best. That to me was Kubrick.

DVD Review: Worthy of all the fawning...
Summary: 5 Stars

While everyone in the movie basically says how great Stanley Kubrick is... it's compeltely justified, cause he was THAT good.

The movie goes over every period and movie in his career, giving some great insight into the productions and into the man himself.

Completely compelling and worth watching. If you're not a huge fan, it's good. if you're a fan, it's Great.

DVD Review: The Master at Work
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a very informative documentary, on perhaps, the greatest of all filmakers. Crammed with interviews from actors who have starred in his films, behind the scenes looks, a biography that covers his childhood in The Bronx, to his relocating to England in the sixties. It covers 'all' of his film efforts, as this was made shortly after his death. For all Kubrick fans, this is a must have.

DVD Review: A Captivating View of the Artist
Summary: 5 Stars

As an unabashed fan, I think this documentary of Kubrick's life and work is almost as good as his films. 'Nuff said.

Description of Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

The moviemaker??Ts career comes into sharp focus in this compelling documentary narrated by Tom Cruise. Fascinating footage glimpses Kubrick in his early years, at work on film sets and at home, augmented by candid commentary from collaborators, colleagues and family.

By lifting the veil that protected Stanley Kubrick from public scrutiny, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures allows the world to see a genius who bore little resemblance to the eccentric persona perpetuated by the media. Essentially a professional home movie (producer-director Jan Harlan was Kubrick's long-time executive producer and brother-in-law), it is both biased and privileged in its access to Kubrick's personal archives, but Harlan's balanced approach allows room for appropriate criticism. While offering a definitive survey of Kubrick's life and 13 feature films, it's also a valentine to a devoted husband, father, and collaborator who, as critic Richard Schickel observes, crafted a private life that anyone would envy and admire. The films speak for themselves, while such luminaries as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Tom Cruise (who also narrates) offer valuable perspective. But it's the private anecdotes (such as Kubrick writing a 15-page guide to caring for his family's cats) that are most enlightening in their warmth and affection, revealing an artist whose humanity far outshined the mistaken perceptions of the outside world. --Jeff Shannon

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