Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

This impressive documentary covers most of Stanley Kubrick's work, through the recollections of major figures in the film industry that, somehow, came into contact with this legendary director. Tom Cruise's presentation is no good, but all the rest works. Nevertheless,... Full review

This is and will most likely, for the foreseeable future remain the only, qualified and official life account of the late Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick was one of the few scholars of the art of film. He did not explain... Full review

This film brings me to tears every time I watch it. Jan Harlan's fantastic documentary about the great Stanley Kubrick is a true masterpiece. By giving insight into his past, films, family, and unfinished projects, Jan Harlan gives Kubrick fans... Full review

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*I've always been fascinated by Stanley Kubrick. Everyone knows he's a genius, made great movies etc. But the thing I found most intriguing about him was how intellectually interested he was in almost every subject matter under... Full review

I only have two problems with this otherwise fantastic documentary: Tom Cruise's narration and the fact that EVERYONE he worked with (actors, producers, studio heads) just praised and praised the man as a "difficult but genius" force. From what I've... Full review

I didn't really appreciate (or know, for that matter) Kubrick as a director before I saw "A life in pictures". Now I think he truly is the best director of all time. Not because of his unique and amazing work,... Full review

This was a very well made documentary focusing on the life and the films of the late and masterful, Stanley Kubrick. Everyone from Woody Allen and Nicole Kidman to family members are interviewed throughout this piece, showing how the director... Full review

Simply put, Stanley Kubrick is the single greatest director in the history of cinema. To view Kubrick's filmography is to watch a master craftsmen totally reinvent the genres he explored. Sci-fi, war, anti-war, black comedy, the period piece, the future... Full review

The documentary is fun and intriguing. There are dozens of interviews -- all quite new, i.e. filmed after Kubrick's death -- including comments from the rarely-heard-from Ligeti, Ustinov, Duvall, Frewin, etc. -- and of course Kubrick's own family. We hear... Full review

I saw this film April 26th at Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois. I found it to be a thorough and captivating overview of the life of a brilliant director. There is much in this documentary that is... Full review

This classic black comedy -- subtitled ''How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'' -- may well be Kubrick's greatest achievement; it is a near-perfect coalescing of mordant satire, broadly exaggerated comic acting and exacting attention to military details. ... Full Review

As a whole, Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures offered a reasonably complete and often compelling look at the great director. Yes, there were some terrific tidbits, but I never thought that we really got inside the Kubrick mystique. ... Full Review

Mr. [Louis] Blau - who was a good friend and attorney of Stanley Kubrick - approached him. The result is Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures , an absorbing two-hour-and-ten-minute exploration of the director's life and times, from his birth through all of his extraordinary films. ... Full Review

The Royal Navy and their French counterpart had an... erm... "incident" this past week after two SSBN ( which stands for Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear , by the way ), one from each navy, crashed into each other because neither... ... Full Article

For years, film fans have had to endure the full frame presentations of Stanley Kubrick's films on DVD (a preference of the director's). But with improvements in technology (and widescreen high-def screens becoming the norm in the home entertainment environment),... ... Full Article

By LARRY GETLEN October 21, 2007 To perfectly capture the quality of French soil, Stanley Kubrick brought actual samples of earth home with him for screen tests. ... Full Article

A wise man once sang, "War! ... What is it good for?" Our answer? Movies. Lots and lots of phenomenal movies. It's no coincidence that some of the greatest films of all time depict the glory and horrors of war. ... Full Article

Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Stanley Kubrick, and Jan Harlan on the set of Eyes Wide Shut . Jan Harlan's Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) often feels like an Oscar-night Lifetime Achievement tribute -- complete with celebrity talking heads,... ... Full Article

A.I. was a pet project never fulfilled by the late Stanley Kubrick, who, according to rabbinic legend explicated by Steven Spielberg, was keen as far back as the 1980s on making a picture about a machine built boy programmed to... ... Full Article