Barry Lyndon
After receiving death threats in the wake of A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick headed to Ireland to adapt Thackeray’s The Luck of Barry Lyndon only to be threatened by the IRA […]
Tag Archives: Stanley Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange
In a dystopian Britain where people roam the streets in strange face masks, Alex (Malcolm MacDowell) and his gang of droogs engage in a nightly crime spree that makes The […]
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
David (Haley Joel Osment) is a robot designed to look like a young boy, and is the first of his kind designed to feel real love. He’s assigned to a […]
Fear and Desire
Deep behind enemy lines, four soldiers who are cut off from their army (Paul Mazursky, Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Steve Coit) ponder their fate and their prospects of finding a […]
2001: A Space Odyssey
In possibly the most ambitious film ever made, Stanley Kubrick seeks to show no less than the entire history of humanity, from the first humans to our potential exploration of […]
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition
This exhibition at the Design Museum in London brings together a huge array of props, scripts, equipment, photos and letters from the career of one of the greatest directors of […]
Lolita
The BFI’s Kubrick season reminds us again of the visionary director’s breadth of genre: historical epics, political satire and of course, abuse comedy. Two and a half hours of a […]
Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick supposedly intended Dr Strangelove to be a serious Cold War thriller but ended up making a comedy due to the unavoidable absurdity of the situation. But in an […]
If….
Supposedly (and hilariously) a favourite of David Cameron’s, If…. is a seminal British satire set in a private school. The school itself is suitably grim; all wooden panels and cruelty. […]
Love
In answer to your question Haddaway, Love is a film about a man stranded in space. It opens during the US Civil War when a strange object is discovered, then […]
