Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

Regisseur:

Jan Harlan

Genre:

Dokumentarfilm | Biographie

Plot:

The career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise.

Plot Keywords:

Stanley Kubrick | Character Name In Title

Filmpreise:

2 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Stanley.

Besetzung

Tom Cruise	...	Himself (Narrator) (voice)
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Ken Adam	...	Himself
Margaret Adams	...	Herself
Brian Aldiss	...	Himself
Woody Allen	...	Himself
Steven Berkoff	...	Himself
Louis C. Blau	...	Himself
John Calley	...	Himself
Milena Canonero	...	Herself
Wendy Carlos	...	Herself
Arthur C. Clarke	...	Himself
Alex Cox	...	Himself
Allen Daviau	...	Himself
Ed Di Giulio	...	Himself
Keir Dullea	...	Himself
Shelley Duvall	...	Herself
Anthony Frewin	...	Himself
James B. Harris	...	Himself
Michael Herr	...	Himself
Mike Herrtage	...	Himself
Philip Hobbs	...	Himself
Irene Kane	...	Herself (as Chris Chase)
Nicole Kidman	...	Herself
Barbara Kroner	...	Herself
Anya Kubrick	...	Herself
Christiane Kubrick	...	Herself
Gert Kubrick	...	Herself (archive footage)
Katharina Kubrick	...	Herself (as Katharina Kubrick-Hobbs)
Paul Lashmar	...	Himself
György Ligeti	...	Himself
Steven Marcus	...	Himself (as Prof. Steven Marcus)
Paul Mazursky	...	Himself
Malcolm McDowell	...	Himself
Douglas Milsome	...	Himself (as Doug Milsome)
Matthew Modine	...	Himself
Jack Nicholson	...	Himself
Tony Palmer	...	Himself
Alan Parker	...	Himself
Sydney Pollack	...	Himself
Richard Schickel	...	Himself
Martin Scorsese	...	Himself
Terry Semel	...	Himself
Alexander Singer	...	Himself (as Alex Singer)
Steven Spielberg	...	Himself
Sybil Taylor	...	Herself
Douglas Trumbull	...	Himself (as Doug Trumbull)
Peter Ustinov	...	Himself (as Sir Peter Ustinov)
Marie Windsor	...	Herself
Alan Yentob	...	Himself

Alternativ:

Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

142 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss | Farbe

Tonverfahren:

Stereo

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:MA | Germany:12 | Spain:T | USA:R

Firma:

Warner Bros. Home Video

Dialogzitate:

[Last lines]
Christiane Kubrick: ...and he'd say, "I'm still fooling them!"

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Enthält ausschnittsweise Spartacus (1960)

Stanley.

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 his work much the same way a painter seldom explains his painting, as he expressed it "I will not comment on your interpretation of it, nor will I offer any other" (not an exact quote) concerning 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was, as it has been expressed in this documentary "a man that remained silent, wheter he was applauded or damned" (not an exact quote). This documentary gives an insight into his highly private life, a privilege that has been up to now granted only to a very narrow group of people. Some do not approve of this film since it was not detailed enough, I believe that are missing the point. For example I can not see the reason for knowing what his directorial style was, it would be as seeing some mythical key to Dalis paintings in the way he hold the brush. I believe this film as such is a skilled documentary, and I must confess that I enjoyed it, and still do enjoy when from time to time I watch it again. The film only states facts and presents people who knew him with their personal and subjective opinions and experiences of him. Kubrick himself gave extremely few interviews, and thus remains and will remain as an unknown. This film is more about the shadow of the man, his legacy and his works. The title states clearly, A Life In Picures. He let his films fend for them self, he let the pictures be what they are, it is and will always be the perogative of an artist to create art. Once art is being explained it is then no longer valid. As such, his life collected so fittingly for a filmmaker in pictures is his final work, as we all leave our legacy in the trace that remains once we are gone, as our creations and the memory of us among those left behind he left his. This film is only a collection of this legacy, it is but the frame of the Stanley Kubrick project, his LIFE.