Stanley Kubrick

Within Cells Interlinked: The A.I. In BLADE RUNNER 2049

<b>***Caution: Major Spoilers For Blade Runner 2049 Contained Within***</b><p>When Steven Spielberg released <i>A.I.</i> in ’01, it was a project Stanley Kubrick had …

Stanley Kubrick’s Right-Hand Man Speaks: The Personal Toll of Working With a Genius

Leon Vitali’s career spent working alongside Stanley Kubrick is a case study of both selfless devotion and self-destructive mania. He wouldn’t have it any other way.<p>Every serious cinephile is aware of Stanley Kubrick, but far fewer are familiar with Leon Vitali, the English co-star of Kubrick’s</i> …

This industry poll reckons George Lucas is a better screenwriter than Stanley Kubrick

Do you agree?<p>Ever wondered who the top 100 screenwriters of all time are? Of course you have.<p>Well, luckily, a bunch of acclaimed screenwriters have …

The 25 Best Horror Movies Of The 1980s, Ranked

It’s almost Halloween, and you know what that means: It’s now socially acceptable to watch horror movies again! You really should be watching them any time of year, but the holiday’s a good excuse to gorge on that most unfairly maligned of genres while putting together a homemade costume on the …

How Leon Vitali became Stanley Kubrick's representative on earth

The Filmworker uncovers the less than glamorous life of a filmmaker's right-hand man.<p>In the early 1970s, Leon Vitali’s face, cherubic but with a hint …

Game review: Echo pays tribute to Stanley Kubrick in a game where you kill yourself again and again

<b>Echo</b><p>Ultra Ultra<p>4.5/5 stars<p>Highbrow influences aren’t often seen in video games. More often than not, developers are happy to pander to gamers through …

A Taste of World Cinema at Denmark's CPH:PIX

What’s on at this year’s CPH:PIX<p>For its ninth installment so far, Copenhagen’s annual film festival will be presenting a wide range of films from …

The untold story of Stanley Kubrick’s obsessive assistant

Leon Vitali worked 16 hour days, seven days a week and was instrumental in helping execute the director’s vision<p>2October 2017<p>Every Stanley Kubrick fan needs to know about Leon Vitali. To some, he’s just some guy with a supporting role in <i>Barry Lyndon</i>. The truth is that Vitali was Kubrick’s …

Watch: A Novel Way to Make Your Characters More Human

Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott are among the filmmakers who use this tactic.One of the most basic questions faced by any filmmaker must be this: …

Kubrick-inspired Harajuku Punk Style w/ Alexander Wang & Dr. Martens

In Harajuku, we met Cheney, a student who is regularly featured on our street snaps. This look appears to be inspired by Stanley Kubrick “A Clockwork …

Playboy's 1985 Interview With Steve Jobs is Well Worth a Read

Following yesterday's news of the death of <i>Playboy</i> founder Hugh Hefner, <i>Cult of Mac</i> chose to highlight the magazine's 1985 Steve Jobs interview, which still remains one of the most insightful reads about the early life and influences of the late Apple co-founder.<p>Quite apart from its centerfolds,</i> …

This Empty House

Perhaps I would have liked <i>Mother!</i> more if, earlier that week and purely by coincidence, I had not streamed <i>The Shining</i>. Darren Aronofsky’s film shares …

Hef the ‘Sexual Revolutionary’: A Dissent

<b>Hugh Hefner</b> loved to proclaim himself the great revolutionary of sexual liberation in our country, the <b>Che Guevara</b> of the American phallus.But that …

Watch This Stephen King Classic Before it Leaves Netflix

'The Shining' is leaving Netflix at the beginning of the Halloween season.<p>By on<p>Filed Under Horror, Horror Movies & Netflix<p>The Overlook Hotel is …

10 Reasons Why “2001: A Space Odyssey” Is The Greatest Sci-fi Movie of All Time

Next year will be the 50th Anniversary of one of the greatest films ever to be put on the silver screen, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.Made …

Wes Anderson’s Cinematic Debt to Stanley Kubrick Revealed in a Side-By-Side Comparison

Most film fans hold the work of Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson in high regard, even if they don't find one, the other, or both to their particular …

The Glamourous Psychopath

Link<i>(PG-13)</i> Stanley Kubrick’s <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> features a dark and disturbed main character, but somehow we still come to sympathize with Alex …

Barry Dennen, The Shining co-star and prolific genre voice actor, dies at 79

Barry Dennen, a show business legend known for his theater work, voice acting, and role in the New York cabaret scene of the 1960s, died Tuesday …

Zuckerberg eating dry toast just like what a ordinary human being who isn't a robot would do

This clip of Facebook founder <i>Mark Zuckerberg</i> trying to do an ordinary human thing like eating toast is just extraordinary.<p>First off there’s no …

The Undeniably Provocative Nature of a Charming, Highly Educated, Well Spoken Anti-Hero Psychopath

The film and television analysis platform ScreenPrism, who offered excellent analysis of <i>Game of Thrones</i>, turned their insightful eyes towards the …

These 10 Universities Produce the Most Millionaires

When prospective high school students consider which university to continue their education, one factor they may take into account is earnings …

Netflix’s Stephen King Adaptation 1922 Promises Viewers a Taste of the Glamorous Jazz Age!

The Roaring Twenties! The words alone are enough to inspire most people break out the ol’ raccoon coat and start doing the Charleston—so imagine how …

The most notorious lost soundtracks in cinema

From The Shining to Drive, we take a look at the iconic film scores that, at one point, could have sounded very different<p>Spare a thought for Jóhann Jóhannsson. Not 12 months after his ambitious score for Denis Villeneuve’s <i>Arrival</i> fell foul of the Oscars’ red tape, the Icelandic composer has been …

These Movies Will Hurt Your Brain (In A Good Way)

<b>WARNING: So many spoilers ahead! Plot twists unraveled. Endings revealed. Proceed at your own risk.</b><p>March 16 marks the 15th anniversary of the release …

Grading What's Coming to and Leaving Netflix in October

Around this time every month, the powers that be at Netflix release their list of what’s coming to and leaving the platform in the month to follow. …

Behind the headlines: why newsstands embody the urban city

Newsstands appear in the work of almost every great photographer; Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Rodchenko, Weegee, Berenice Abbott, André Kertész, even …

Matt Damon to Receive Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award

The Academy Award-winning actor-writer-producer joins an esteemed list of previous winners including Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Tom Cruise, Robert …

Ridley Scott explains Blade Runner's debt to Stanley Kubrick

It’s a little crazy to believe that the sequel to <i>Blade Runner</i> is coming out in less than three weeks, on October 6, a scant 35 years after the …

World War III: How America Planned a Nuclear War to Crush Russia

Millions would have died. <i>Regardless, the Air Force explained it simply couldn’t afford to care about these concerns. “While … the probability of</i> …

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