Stanley Kubrick (July 16, 1928- March 7, 1999) is a film director, producer, cinematographer and editor born in New York, USA but worked mainly in the UK. He is known for being one of the most influential and greatest directors of all time. His films cover a wide range of genres including horror, sci-fi, war and crime.
Films Directed
Fear and Desire (1953)
Killer's Kiss (1955)
The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Spartacus (1960)
Lolita (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Themes and Styles
Inner Struggle
The constrained
Man and machine
The unleashed
The civilised and the base
Human nature
Perspective
Kubrick is probably more worthy of the term ‘Auteur’ than any other filmmaker. He placed his indelible stamp on not just every film he made, but every shot he filmed, every scene he lit, every performance he nurtured and every musical accompaniment he chose.
People misunderstand Kubrick, based on thinking about only one film, or one scene in one film, believing he was anti-technology or anti-nature. In fact, his films, when taken as a whole, are less moralistic than journalistic: he's reporting on human nature, and he doesn't believe it's changeable. Although obviously missing the aesthetic mark by a few decades the uplifting future technological depiction of 2001 contrasted with the spacious art-deco decadence of an institutionalised oppressive society in A Clockwork Orange are evidence of Kubrick’s creative impulse for brilliant future visions.
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