Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, an In-Depth Portrait of the Master Filmmaker — openculture.com

Can we ever say enough about Stanley Kubrick? The director of Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Shining — to name only a few of his entries into the canon — generated a depth of interest still explored to this day by his fans and critics alike, not that he has many outright detractors. Those who praise Kubrick praise him to the skies, and even those who consider that a bit much still have to admit his powerful influence, never likely to dissipate, on cinema as a whole. Released in 2001, just two years after Kubrick’s death (which itself came just days after he completed Eyes Wide Shut), the 140-minute Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures reveals the life and work of the man who now stands almost as a Platonic ideal of the auteur, and it does so film-by-film, one at a time — surely, I like to think, the way the intensely focused craftsman himself would have preferred it.

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