Stanley Kubrick Rory Patton

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Overview• Born in New York City on July 26, 1928,

died on March 7, 1999

• American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor

• Part of the New Hollywood filmmaking wave

• He taught himself all aspects of filmmaking

His Start• At 13 his father bought him his

first camera, triggering a fascination with still photography

• He decided to focus on photography, rather than school

• At 16 he shot a photograph of a news vendor the day after F.D.R. died and submitted it to Look magazine

• Look hired him on the spot as a freelance photographer

First Films• In 1951 he made his first 16 minute documentary film Day of

the Fight• https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=519M7nzBRZA

• In 1953 he made a name for himself when his first feature film Fear and Desire was screened in a few New York art-house theaters

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bjJzQvjhndw

Director (16 credits) 1999 Eyes Wide Shut

1987 Full Metal Jacket

1980 The Shining

1975 Barry Lyndon

1971 A Clockwork Orange

1968 2001: A Space Odyssey

1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1962 Lolita

1960 Spartacus

1957 Paths of Glory

1956 The Killing

1955 The Killer's Kiss

1953 The Seafarers (Documentary short)

1953 Fear and Desire

1951 Day of the Fight (Documentary short)

1951 Flying Padre: An RKO-Pathe Screenliner (Documentary short)

Film Facts

Known for extreme close-ups of intensely emotional faces

All of his films include a pivotal scene that takes place in the bathroom

Uses first person viewpoint at least once in every film

Film Facts (cont.)

Barry Lyndon (1975) Kubrick modified lenses used by NASA for Hubble telescope in order to film scenes under natural candlelight

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Kubrick used innovative effects and scientific realism

The Shining (1980) First feature film to use a steadicam for stabilized tracking shots

Every film he made was adapted from a novel

Films consisted of wide-angles shots that gave the impression of a wide-screen movie

Used music to work against on-screen images to create irony https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SWvWyYz9ttk

Film Achievements • Best Director Academy Award

nominations for Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon

• Won an Academy Award for special effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey

• In 1997 he received the D.W. Griffith Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Directors Guild of America

• In 1999 Eyes Wide Shut was the first Kubrick film to open at the box office at number one

Kubrick’s Influence on film today

• Burton modeled Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Alice and Wonderland after the twins from The Shining

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Burton uses actual footage from 2001: A Space Odysseyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8uLugHTVoE&feature=player_detailpage

Tim Burton

Kubrick’s Influence on film Today (cont.)

Christopher Nolan

It is clear that Nolan’s 2014 film Interstellar was inspired by Kubrick’s 2001:A Space Odyssey

Kubrick’s Influence on film Today (cont.)

Directors influenced by Kubrick also include;• David Fincher

• Guillermo del Toro

• David Lynch

• Lars Von Trier

• Michael Mann

The End

Resources

www.biography.com

www.IMDb.com

www.wikipedia.com

www.kubrickfilms.warnerbro.com/