A self-taught photographer, working for Look magazine while still
in his teens, Stanley Kubrick broke into low-budget features and
made his name with The Killing, a brilliant racetrack robbery told
in multiple flashback, which Tarantino later cited as inspiration
for Reservoir Dogs. Then came Paths of Glory, Lolita, and the
cinematic behemoths we've come to know as Stanley Kubrick pictures,
dividing the critics more or less equally into ardent fans and
bitter detractors. LoBrutto is good on the technical side of
Kubrick's art - the fanatical attention to detail, the love of
experimentation (with lenses and sound), the startling use of
music. And it does not come as any surprise that Kubrick was a
chess master, for there was a man who demanded complete control (he
disowned Spartacus because of studio interference). Yet he inspired
huge loyalty in those who worked for him, and, while some of his
work (Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket) barely stopped short of
grandiose indulgence, the best Kubrick movies - Dr Strangelove,
2001, A Clockwork Orange - remain, for all their cold formalism,
singular experiences, and must rank among the very best postwar
movies. (Kirkus UK)
Even as a teenager, Stanley Kubrick was documenting his world
through photography. When he sold his first photograph at the age
of seventeen, Kubrick had already begun telling stories through
pictures. Without any formal education in film-making, Kubrick
taught himself through photography and by spending many hours in
his neighborhood movie theatre. At twenty-one, he financed and
created his own short film, Day of the Fight, completely on his
own, thus beginning a career in cinema that included such
masterworks as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Dr.
Strangelove. Despite worldwide controversy and acclaim, the public
knew little about a man who was reclusive and intensely private.
Vincent LoBrutto's comprehensive biography of Kubrick contains
interviews with those who knew him during his formative years, as
well as accounts by his cinema colleagues - revealing a hitherto
unknown personal side to an enigmatic man of genius.
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