by Seth Lamey | Jul 30, 2018 | Criticism
Barry Lyndon (1975) Looking for a new challenge after his most successful stretch of work, Stanley Kubrick turned to adapting the William Makepeace Thackeray 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Funded by Warner Bros. for the second straight film, Kubrick would again...
by Seth Lamey | Jul 30, 2018 | Criticism
Full Metal Jacket (1987) By the mid-1980s, Kubrick and screenwriter Michael Herr had become fascinated with Gustav Hasford’s novel The Short-Timers, a depiction of the Vietnam War through the perspective of a Marine trained to kill. War had been an obsession of...
by Seth Lamey | Jul 9, 2018 | Criticism
Killer’s Kiss (1955) In the second half of the twentieth century, the concept of the auteur filmmaker had begun to be established by the French New Wave filmmakers. François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard contributed their own work, and they also cited John Ford,...
by Seth Lamey | Jul 9, 2018 | Criticism
Paths of Glory (1957) Fresh off the commercial and critical success of The Killing, Kubrick and his producer James B. Harris brought Humphrey Cobb’s Paths of Glory to United Artists in 1957, who granted them a $1 million budget to adapt the novel into a film of...
by Seth Lamey | Jul 9, 2018 | Criticism
Lolita (1962) After completing his large production epic Spartacus in 1960, Stanley Kubrick and producer James B. Harris took on a giant task in its own right: adapting Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita. The adaptation would not be an easy one, as the...
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