Stanley Kubrick: Interviews
- ISBN13: 9781578062973
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From his first feature film, Fear and Desire (1953), to his final, posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick excelled at probing the dark corners of human consciousness. In doing so, he adapted such popular novels as The Killing, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining and selected a wide variety of genres for his films — black comedy (Dr. Strangelove), science fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey), and war (Paths of Glory and Full Metal Jacket). B… More >>
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For fans of Kubrick’s work, this book is essential. The man only did a few interviews in his existence and semed to despise every minute of them but this book provides some essential information and opinion from one of the greatest filmmakers ever. Hearing his philosophies alone completely blew me away! By the end of the book I was wishing there were more interviews. Get it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Stanley Kubrick is a person that the world over should miss. This book captures a part of his mystique, of why he was such a beautiful and intriguing person.
Rating: 5 / 5
You’ve heard many times that “Seinfeld” was “a show about nothing.” That’s pretty much what you get here…
Kubrick loathed publicity and hated doing interviews even more. Since he himself had been a photojournalist, of sorts, before starting his career making movies, this is a little paradoxical, but understandable.
I don’t doubt that just about every documented Kubrick interview ever done is, in some way, represented in this book – but it still ends up a mighty slim volume. Students of Kubrick will not learn much here that has not already been cited, in secondary source, in the great number of other Kubrick “biographies” and critical treatises.
And you cannot help believing that this is exactly what Kubrick wanted. Over and over again, in this book itself, he insists that the movies he made were to stand on their own merits. Talking about movies meant nothing to him – making them was everything.
Rating: 4 / 5
Now that this legendary filmmaker is (alas) no longer with us, this book serves a valuable purpose, reminding us of the towering intellect and fertile mind of Stanley Kubrick. The last interview, in 1987 with Rolling Stone, is the most fun and laid-back; he scoffs at trying to explain what his films mean and lets the viewer decide. His lengthy interview with Playboy in 1968, after “2001″ was released, is nothing short of jaw-dropping. Kubrick discusses a wide range of issues, from science to God to the possibility of intelligent life in the universe, in remarkable depth. A New Yorker piece about the making of “2001″ is great fun; his defense of “A Clockwork Orange” is eloquent and worth remembering given the debate that still rages today around violence and the media. My only complaint: Where are his three great interviews with Michel Ciment? The absense is unfortunate, because the book jumps from “Barry Lyndon” to “Full Metal Jacket,” creating a glaring hole in an otherwise superb collection of articles and interviews.
Rating: 4 / 5
There is a huge amount of Kubrick in this one. Parhaps the most complete collection of things he has uttered to the press throughout his career. It covers all his fascinations, all obsessions and great visions for the modern mankind – and it unveils the gradual loss of hope, dienchantement with how the modern world develops.
But, being a collection of interviews, it is also slightly repetitive and many topics are discussed several times, so for non-scholars this can be increasingly boring while they advance.
Rating: 4 / 5