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History and horror, crime and war, sci-fi and sexual transgression. He may have made only 13 feature films in the course of his 46-year career, but Stanley Kubrick covered a range that more prolific filmmakers might--and often did--envy. But whether the films were set in the deep past or the near future, whether their prevailing tone was comic or violent, sly or brutish, weary or idealistic, Kubrick really made the same movie over and over again--vivid, brilliant, emotionally unforgiving, imagistically unforgettable variations on the theme that preoccupied him all his mature life...
...films that Kubrick cared about--there were three early ones he disowned--are all in one way or another explorations of how minor mishaps can grow into major disasters, with the one exception of 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which miscalculation leads to redemption, rebirth, a radiant transcendence of ordinary expectations. But Eyes Wide Shut, though it is finally less bleak in its moral implications than most Kubrick movies, is in the more typical line of a man perpetually disappointed by the world's failure to abide by his standards of logic and civility...
...shame Stanley Kubrick isn't alive to make "Dr. Strangelove 2: How I Learned to Stop Engaging and Love the Cold War." Half a century after the freeze began with two big bangs and a decade after it ended with a long Russian whimper, could America really be headed back to its bomb shelters? Clinton, the president who tried, perhaps too fervently, to gain China instead of lose it all over again, is now being excoriated as the man who lost the U.S. instead. He gave them supercomputers for their infrastructure, and they used them to build bombs. He gave...
...business. That's really only half the story. Less than half. Anyone whos seen 2001: A Space Odyssey will know that Star Wars was not the first, or even the best, science fiction special effects extravaganza seen in Hollywood. While Lucas was still in film school, Stanley Kubrick was sending space stations spinning to classical waltz music and showing us humans suspended in space (a feat not attempted in any of the Star Wars movies...
...Buzz If the racy 90-second Sho West clip is any indication, this film is going to be steamy, controversial and perhaps one of Kubrick's greatest masterpieces...