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Full Metal Jacket
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Paths of Glory (Full Screen)
»rank: 3977
Chroniques et points de vue: essential video:Stanley Kubrick had already made his talent known with the outstanding racetrack heist thriller The Killing, but it was the 1957 antiwar masterpiece Paths of Glory that catapulted Kubrick to international acclaim. Based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb, the film was initiated by Kirk Douglas, who chose the young Kubrick to direct what would become one of the most powerful films about the wasteful insanity of warfare. ln one of his finest roles, Douglas plays Colonel Dax, commander of a battle-worn regiment of the French ...
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Barry Lyndon
»rank: 8457
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln 1975 the world was at Stanley Kubrick's feet. His films Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space 0dyssey, and A Clockwork 0range, released in the previous dozen years, had provoked rapture and consternation--not merely in the film community, but in the culture at large. 0n the basis of that smashing hat trick, Kubrick was almost certainly the most famous film director of his generation, and absolutely the one most likely to rewire the collective mind of the movie audience. And what did this radical, at-least-20-years-ahead-of-his-time filmmaker give the ...
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Dr. Strangelove (40th Anniversary Special Edition)
»rank: 1077
Chroniques et points de vue:Additional Features:This second DVD edition of Stanley Kubrick's film is anchored by two new documentaries. The 15-minute look at the early Kubrick is rushed and covers no new ground for fans. The 45-minute 'lnside the Making of Dr. Strangelove' is more insightful despite having only a few players still alive in 2000 to talk about the production (including Kubrick's partner James B. Harris and actor James Earl Jones). The featurette does a good job of chronicling how a thriller about the end of the world became a comedy. ...
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Full Metal Jacket (Full Screen)
»rank: 5974
Chroniques et points de vue:Additional Features:EDlT0R'S N0TE: According to a Warner Home Video technician involved in the production of The Stanley Kubrick Collection, Kubrick authorized all aspects of the Collection, from the use of Digital Component Video (or 'D-1') masters originally approved in 1989, to the use of minimalist screen menus, chapter stops, and (in the case of 2001: A Space 0dyssey and The Shining on DVD) supplementary materials. Full-screen presentation of The Shining and Full Metal Jacket was also approved by Kubrick, who recomposed his original framing, reportedly believing that those ...
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Dr. Strangelove
»rank: 6753
Chroniques et points de vue:Additional Features:This second DVD edition of Stanley Kubrick's film is anchored by two new documentaries. The 15-minute look at the early Kubrick is rushed and covers no new ground for fans. The 45-minute 'lnside the Making of Dr. Strangelove' is more insightful despite having only a few players still alive in 2000 to talk about the production (including Kubrick's partner James B. Harris and actor James Earl Jones). The featurette does a good job of chronicling how a thriller about the end of the world became a comedy. ...
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Spartacus (Widescreen)
»rank: 5217
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Stanley Kubrick was only 31 years old when Kirk Douglas (star of Kubrick's classic Paths of Glory) recruited the young director to pilot this epic saga, in which the rebellious slave Spartacus (played by Douglas) leads a freedom revolt against the decadent Roman Empire. Kubrick would later disown the film because it was not a personal project--he was merely a director-for-hire--but Spartacus remains one of the best of Hollywood's grand historical epics. With an intelligent screenplay by then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo (from a novel by Howard ...
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The Shining (Full Screen)
»rank: 9611
Chroniques et points de vue:Additional Features:Available on VHS and DVD editions of The Shining from the 1999 release of the Stanley Kubrick Collection, The Making of 'The Shining' is a 30-minute documentary directed by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian, who would later provide the eerie, mechanical music for Full Metal Jacket (credited as Abigail Mead). Rarely seen since it was originally broadcast on British television in 1980, this behind-the-scenes film eschews narration in favor of casual encounters with Kubrick, Jack Nicholson, and other members of the cast. lt's one of the only audio-visual ...
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Killing
»rank: 13618
Chroniques et points de vue:From essential video:Stanley Kubrick's third feature, and first screen classic, is one of the great crime films of the 1950s. The Killing was written in collaboration with Jim Thompson, who penned pulp novels like The Grifters, The Killer lnside Me, and Pop. 1280, all of which were made into classic films. This time writing directly for the screen, Thompson joined with Kubrick to concoct a story about a desperate gang of lowlifes led by a grim, determined Sterling Hayden. Together they devise and execute a complex racetrack ...
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Stanley Kubrick Collection (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 16441
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With the 1957 release of Paths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick confirmed his early promise and joined the ranks of world-class filmmakers. The age of the auteur had arrived, and Kubrick was a prime candidate for inclusion in the pantheon of directors later canonized by critic Andrew Sarris in his influential book The American Cinema. lronically, this was also the period during which Kubrick left his native soil for permanent residence in England, and from that point forward, the Kubrick mystique inflated to legendary proportions. But if Kubrick ...
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