By Ulrich Ruchti, Sybil Taylor, Alexander Walker
Alexander Walker's Stanley Kubrick, Director is the one ebook ever written with Kubrick's cooperation.
This new version, revised and extended to debate all of Kubrick's films—including Eyes large Shut—again obtained the approval of the reclusive director, who prior to his loss of life allowed using illustrations taken at once from his films' frames. the result's a frame-by-frame exam of the inimitable type that infuses each Kubrick motion picture, from the pitch-perfect hilarity of Lolita to the icy supremacy of 2001: an area Odyssey to the baroque horror of The Shining. The book's attractive layout and dynamic association of photographic stills provide a frame-by-frame realizing of the way Kubrick built a movie. What emerges is a deeply human research of 1 extraordinary artist's nature and obsessions, and the way those replaced and shifted in his 4 a long time as a filmmaker. Black-and-white illustrations all through, eight pages of colour.
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