Stanley Kubrick
Author
Language
English
Description
This unique documentary is composed entirely of archival footage and photographs, accompanied by the voice of Stanley Kubrick. Taken from a series of rare interviews, the film provides an opportunity to understand the work of a master filmmaker, giving voice to one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, as well as one of the most controversial and enigmatic.
Author
Series
Space Odyssey series volume 1
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
1993, c1991
Language
English
Description
Two frightened navigators, three frozen hibernauts, and a talkative computer named Hal ride on the spacecraft Discovery, hoping to unravel the mystery of a crystal monolith left on the moon by alien intelligence.
4) Lolita
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
"Newly arrived in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, European émigré Humbert Humbert is smitten. He plans to marry Charlotte Haze. That way he'll always be close to his dear one-- Charlotte's precocious daughter!"--Container.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
7) The shining
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts.
10) Barry Lyndon
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson star in director Stanley Kubrick's lavish adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic 18th-century novel about the rise and fall of a sensitive and dashing rogue, The Memoirs of BARRY LYNDON, Esq.. Forced to leave Ireland after killing an English officer in a duel, handsome young Redmond Barry (O'Neal) seeks his fortune as a soldier in Prussia, as a spy then as a gambler living among the elite of Europe. He...
11) Spartacus
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story of a gladiator who leads slaves in a rebellion against the power of Rome.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Being the adventures of a young man who couldn't resist pretty girls, or a bit of the old ultra-violence, who went to jail, was re-conditioned, and came out a different young man. Or was he?" So might opine your humble narrator, Alex. Alex and his droogs Georgie, Dim, and Pete are bored. Alex loves Ludwig van, milk bars, and mayhem. One night a botched burglary ends in murder. Apprehended by the police, Alex is tried, sentenced, and sent to prison...
13) The shining
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertinment Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
This unique documentary is composed entirely of archival footage and photographs, accompanied by the voice of Stanley Kubrick. Taken from a series of rare interviews, the film provides an opportunity to understand the work of a master filmmaker, giving voice to one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, as well as one of the most controversial and enigmatic.
15) Fear and Desire
Author
Language
English
Description
FEAR AND DESIRE is the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's PATHS OF GLORY (1957) and FULL METAL JACKET (1987), FEAR AND DESIRE follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia Leith) and bind her to a tree, where she is tormented...
16) Paths Of Glory
Author
Language
English
Description
This powerful, fact-based absurdity-of-war film stars Kirk Douglas as a commanding officer who defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
17) The Killing
Author
Language
English
Description
With fascinating detail, Stanley Kubrick lays bare the intricate inner-planning of a racetrack heist by a deadly mastermind (Sterling Hayden) and his crew. Co-stars Coleen Gray.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
19) The killing
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Johnny Clay has a plan. After spending 5 years in Alcatraz, he decides that if he's going to commit crimes, the risk had better be worth the punishment. He then proceeds to mastermind a brilliant criminal scheme to steal $2,000,000 from a local racetrack in which "no one will get hurt."
Killer's kiss: Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the...
Author
Series
Hollywood's Stories volume 11
Language
English
Description
Tom Cruise is among the most successful, enigmatic actors to ever grace the silver screen. Cruise's private life has remained opaque over the years, but as an actor he has continued to remain relevant and adaptable in the film industry, and through the roles and films he has taken part in. No matter the details of Cruise's private life, on screen, he is always ready for action.