The Films of Stanley Kubrick

After several topics that I have been running through my head for an idea for a blog, I have decided to start blogging on something that I've had a fond interest in since I was 9 years old. It may sound a little weird that a 9 year old would start to appreciate a Stanley Kubrick film but it something that I've never really had a proper conversation about with anybody. Even going through High School and studied years in a media class, not many people (or none at all) in my classes had even heard of Kubrick. Despite this, I want to find people, whether it's online and in the flesh, to talk about him and his films. I'm hoping this blog will achieve that and I also hope that people who have never heard or are unfamiliar with the director can get some insight to each of his 13 films that he made in his 50 year career.

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2001: A Space Odyssey was Stanley Kubrick's first and only ever Oscar win for Achievement in Special Visual Effects. He was nominated for 13 Academy Awards in his career.

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DID YOU KNOW…

Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” holds the record for using the widest aperture in film history. Three NASA engineered Zeiss lenses with an aperture of f.0.7 where fitted onto Mitchell BNC cameras for the natural candle light scenes in the film. These lenses are two stops faster than lenses that are used today!

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Can you guess this famous filmmaker? (HINT: It's not Kubrick)

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Symmetry plays a large part with perspective in Kubrick's films.

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Stanley Kubrick (left) & Jack Nicholson (right) on the set of "The Shining" (1980).

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Space Station V from "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968).

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Matthew Modine (left) & Stanley Kubrick (right) on the set of "Full Metal Jacket" (1987).

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Stanley Kubrick on the set of "Killer's Kiss" (1955).

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DID YOU KNOW... All the interiors for The Shining were specially built on a soundstage in London, England. The Timberline Lodge, which was used for the exterior shots, requested that they not use the room 217, as it is in the book, fearing that nobody would want to stay there. Kubrick changed the script to use the non-existent room number 237.

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Stanley Kubrick on the set of "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999).

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George C. Scott & Stanley Kubrick on the set of "Dr. Strangelove" (1964).

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"Better you than me." - Adam Baldwin as 'Animal Mother' in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987).

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DID YOU KNOW.... Famous British personality and television producer Simon Cowell worked as a runner on the set of "The Shining" at Elstree Studios, England in 1978. One of his duties was cleaning Jack Nicholson's axe.

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Philip Stone (left) & Jack Nicholson (right) on the set of "The Shining" (1980).

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Garrett Brown (left), Stanley Kubrick (middle) & Danny Lloyd (right) on the set of "The Shining" (1980).

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Jack Nicholson & Stanley Kubrick on the set of "The Shining" (1980).