In the last 10 years, there’s been an ever-widening niche of documentaries about Stanley Kubrick. Every one of them has been fascinating, one or two (like “Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes”) are as idiosyncratic as the director himself, and the most artful and memorable — “Filmworker” (2017), a portrait of Kubrick’s monkishly devoted gofer and right-hand assistant, Leon Vitali — is an essential artifact. Amid the steady outpouring of Kubrickiana, the 72-minute-long “Kubrick by Kubrick” may be the least exotic, but it still gives any Kubrick believer a heady share of morsels to chew on.
The film is built around a series of tape-recorded interviews that Michel Ciment, the French film critic and editor of Positif, conducted with Kubrick over the course of 20 years. In 1968, Ciment wrote the first major overview of Kubrick’s work to appear in France, and the director got in touch with him. Kubrick, from that point on, virtually never gave interviews.
The film is built around a series of tape-recorded interviews that Michel Ciment, the French film critic and editor of Positif, conducted with Kubrick over the course of 20 years. In 1968, Ciment wrote the first major overview of Kubrick’s work to appear in France, and the director got in touch with him. Kubrick, from that point on, virtually never gave interviews.
- 5/9/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
My God, it’s full of chairs. Devoted fans of Stanley Kubrick in general and “2001: A Space Odyssey” in particular may want to consider a pilgrimage to the 14th Factory, an abandoned jail in Los Angeles that British artist Simon Birch has turned into a series of micro-exhibitions, perhaps the most exciting of which is an exact replica of the bedroom that appears at the end of Kubrick’s sci-fi benchmark.
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That’s notable in part because Kubrick was known to destroy the materials used in his films. Speaking to the South China Morning Post, the Hong Kong–based Birch explains that he and architect Paul Kember “always wanted to reference the film producer and director Stanley Kubrick in the show and then I thought, ‘Why not do something more blatant...
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That’s notable in part because Kubrick was known to destroy the materials used in his films. Speaking to the South China Morning Post, the Hong Kong–based Birch explains that he and architect Paul Kember “always wanted to reference the film producer and director Stanley Kubrick in the show and then I thought, ‘Why not do something more blatant...
- 3/30/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
If you're a film geek, or you've seen Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, then you know the master director was an obsessive filmmaker, monitoring every detail with the precision of a drill sergeant. The 2008 documentary reveals that Kubrick kept over 1,000 boxes overflowing with photographs, film reels and other materials that the director would meticulously track and organize to keep tabs on all his projects. Other stories abound about his controlling methods, but 14 years after his death, it's still clear that his dedication and neuroses paid off. An article on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's (Lacma) blog called A Summer with Stanley Kubrick dives into more of the director's rigorous ways. Tim Deegan, who is currently the director of guest services at...
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- 3/5/2013
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
As anyone who has watched Stanley Kubrick's Boxes knows, the late, great director was a bit of a pack rat. He was meticulous, obsessive, and detail oriented when it came to saving things. Anything, really. And even though it didn't always make sense to others, Stanley had his reasons. The documentary revealed the contents of several carefully organized boxes, but there are around 1,000 in total. It's easy to imagine the number of uncompleted films the visionary director kept hidden from the public. Kubrick wasn't known for his quick development of projects. He kept a list of potentials, dubbed "Titles in Search of a Script." The filmmaker's assistant Tony Frewin shared the list in the comprehensive Stanley Kubrick Archives, and we've...
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- 2/21/2012
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Christiane Kubrick had 42 wonderful years with her husband. But in the decade since his death, she has been beset by tragedy. For the first time, she talks about losing one daughter to cancer, another to Scientology – and why her uncle made films for Goebbels
It's Thursday evening and the tiny figure of Christiane Kubrick takes to the stage at Somerset House on the Strand in London, to introduce an open-air screening of her late husband's film Paths of Glory. She reads from a prepared script: "Important events in life feel like they happened yesterday. But it was 53 years ago that Stanley saw me on German television and hired me . . ."
Stanley Kubrick gave Christiane the part of a bar singer. They married and barely left one another's side for the next 42 years. They raised three children: Anya and Vivian, plus Katharina, her daughter from an earlier marriage. Now, when she isn't...
It's Thursday evening and the tiny figure of Christiane Kubrick takes to the stage at Somerset House on the Strand in London, to introduce an open-air screening of her late husband's film Paths of Glory. She reads from a prepared script: "Important events in life feel like they happened yesterday. But it was 53 years ago that Stanley saw me on German television and hired me . . ."
Stanley Kubrick gave Christiane the part of a bar singer. They married and barely left one another's side for the next 42 years. They raised three children: Anya and Vivian, plus Katharina, her daughter from an earlier marriage. Now, when she isn't...
- 8/19/2010
- by Jon Ronson
- The Guardian - Film News
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