Cinefile: Stanley Kubrick - (pt 1 of 4)

This 1996 documentary profiles the work of director Stanley Kubrick and was broadcast to accompany a season of Kubrick films on Britain's Channel 4.

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I believe this documentary was originally called 'The Invisible Man'

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If you're looking for an interview. He did Playboy.

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Let's not get carried away. I love Kubrick but there are other directors who also have an equally excellent body of work. Let me name a few: Bergman, Kurosawa, Antonioni, Truffaut, D.W. Griffith, Welles, Huston, etc. Yes, Kubrick was great, but some of his films are dated. There exists a cool Brechtian detachment from the subject matter. Some directors are not afraid to embrace humans more and celebrate their humanity. Let's maintain perspective on this.

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I suggest you watch the films of Luis Bunuel who was a great influence on Kubrick. Watch Ingmar Bergman's films. These directors have more depth than Kubrick in certain areas of human experience.

[@MegaFount]

I highly recommend looking at the films of Bunuel and Bergman and Kurosawa. They were all masters of cinema and in some ways went deeper into the psyche than Kubrick ever did. Kubrick has a Brechtian style which is detached. I don't think he loved people in the way these other filmmakers did. Watch Bergman's Wild Strawberries. It has a mysterious detachment, but in the end left me weeping. I couldn't stop crying it was so powerful in its perception of the meaning of life itself. I love and appreciate Kubrick, but there are other filmmakers that touch the human soul more completely.