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Room 237, Rodney Ascher's documentary about the hidden puzzles and bizarre theories fomented by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, is one of only two American films selected for the Director's Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival this year (May 16-27). The prestigious berth signals keen attention will be paid...
(8) Comments | Posted February 19, 2012 | 02/19/12 09:58 AM ET
Nothing revealed Stanley Kubrick's singular intelligence -- nor his endearing humor and humanity -- more than budgetary decisions. He wore his producer's hat as ingeniously as his director's one, confounding expectations.
Before he arrived in New York for the opening of 2001, stories of his obsessive genius preceded him. He...
(11) Comments | Posted February 8, 2012 | 02/08/12 01:37 PM ET

Stanley didn't travel. His work and life were intertwined and based entirely in England, so the world came to him. This was both a benefit and a complicating factor as I set about strategizing publicity for A Clockwork Orange, which was set...
(22) Comments | Posted January 30, 2012 | 01/30/12 08:45 AM ET
"I think it's my most... skillful film," Stanley Kubrick stated in his calm, equanimous voice, the day after screening the first assembly of A Clockwork Orange.
We were standing on either side of Stanley's desk in his functionally chaotic home office at Abbots Mead in Elstree, England, going over the...
(25) Comments | Posted January 10, 2012 | 01/10/12 07:09 AM ET

Stanley Kubrick believed that "filmmaking is an exercise in problem solving." He meant that to include the distribution and marketing of his films as well as their production, and he devoted more time and effort to managing the release of his films than any...
(4) Comments | Posted May 15, 2012 | 05/15/12 06:08 PM ET