Stanley Kubrick

By the mid-1970s, the arrival of a Stanley Kubrick film in theaters was a cultural event. The American director who had shunned Hollywood for England had basically created his own Kubrickian genre with a series of audacious films — “Dr. Strangelove,” “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “A Clockwork Orange” ...

Thanks to the internet, movie fans have been afforded new opportunities to connect with collectors of Hollywood memorabilia in ways that were previously much more difficult, even earning opportunities to purchase rare items. Stanley Kubrick's former assistant, Emilio D'Alessandro, has recently offered up ...

That's right: the “burgundy corduroy jacket” on offer is none other than the one worn by Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick's masterful ode to the literary life, The Shining. The film, which chronicles novelist Jack Torrance's heroic efforts to obtain the peace and quiet he needs to finish his book, has long been ...

Legendary director Stanley Kubrick was known to have said that he was not really a Jew, he just happened to have two Jewish parents. But though he may have tried to divert from this fact, Kubrick, who passed away in 1999 at the age of 70, was born and died a Jew, and Jewishness threads through and ...

On the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, noted entrepreneur and expansive thinker Elon Musk discussed his fears about artificial intelligence that were more chilling than the cinematic HAL-9000 supercomputer of science fiction. Related · Elon Musk Upstages White House ...

The diversity of New York is truly reflected in the art coming to galleries this spring. Shows touch upon the work of a long-underappreciated female artist, reflects on Stanley Kubrick's time as a photographer before turning to movies, and argues for the value of real photos in the age of digital manipulation.

Stanley Kubrick was born on July 26th, 1928 in Manhattan, New York City. Although born to a Jewish family, Kubrick was not exposed to a religious upbringing. He lived most of his early life in the affluent neighborhood of The West Bronx. Though somewhat shy as a child, Kubrick liked reading literature, ...

The book was famously made into a movie in 1980 by the late great director Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey). It starred Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. In the following commercial, a smooth-voiced narrator asks you to visit the Overlook, which has just been renovated. "Our staff is hard at work ...