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Posts Tagged "Stanley Kubrick"

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Filmworker *** (2017, Leon Vitali, Ryan O’Neal, Danny Lloyd, Matthew Modine, R Lee Ermey) – Movie Review

Director Tony Zierra’s documentary on Leon Vitali, who gave up a promising acting career to serve for three decades as Stanley Kubrick’s right-hand man, is fascinating, a remarkable footnote to Kubrick’s story. Vitali describes himself and on his passport […]

Oct, 02

Lolita *** (1997, Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella) – Classic Movie Review 2235

Director Adrian Lyne remakes Stanley Kubrick’s ground-breaking 1962 film of Vladimir Nabokov’s famous controversial tale of an older man’s obsession for an adolescent girl in 1997. Jeremy Irons is perfectly cast and at his very best as […]

Mar, 04

Fear and Desire ** (1953, Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Virginia Leith) – Classic Movie Review 1632

Co-writer/director Stanley Kubrick’s eye-catching, attention-grabbing first low-budget feature, made in 1953, is an almost abstract war story made when he was 25 with money from relatives and friends. Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Kenneth Harp and […]

Sep, 03

Paths of Glory ***** (1957, Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 1102

In 1957, director Stanley Kubrick confirmed his then growing reputation as one of the most promising film-makers of the era with this harsh, bleak and brilliant, fact-based World War One anti-war film about a French army mutiny […]

Apr, 16

Barry Lyndon **** (1975, Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Murray Melvin, Steven Berkoff) – Classic Movie Review 401

Ryan O’Neal gets by on screen presence and charisma, despite his odd casting as the roguish Irish farm boy turned adventurer, in Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 extraordinary labour of love period drama film Barry Lyndon. Stanley […]

Nov, 13

Lolita ***** (1962, James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 391

Director Stanley Kubrick’s ground-breaking 1962 film of Vladimir Nabokov’s famous controversial tale of an older man’s obsession for a young, under-age girl is a darkly comic study in obsession. It takes social realism and turns it […]

Nov, 11

Killer’s Kiss ***½ (1955, Frank Silvera, Irene Kane, Jamie Smith) – Classic Movie Review 360

Stanley Kubrick’s short second feature film from 1955 is only 67 minutes long, but Killer’s Kiss provides plenty of evidence of the budding director’s talent. A punchy, stylish, inventively made, film noir action thriller, it […]

Nov, 03

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