KUBRICK
Poster series
2001: A Space Odyssey
A film about an ape with a bone, a crazy computer, radical 60s fashions, and a life altering trip. How does one encompass all of man’s evolution into one film? Can you imagine what the pitch might have been like to executives? Although since the financial success of his previous film, Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick could do whatever he wanted, and he certainly didn’t need to grovel to film executives anymore. His new production would no longer be ‘A Film by Stanley Kubrick’, but ‘A Stanley Kubrick Production’.
Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove is a film about sex, weapons, board games, emotionally immature adults, and incompetence on a global scale; a brilliant black comedy that works as political satire. The premise is high concept. A deranged and paranoid US General orders a strike on the Soviet Union, scrambling the military and President to prevent the apocalypse.
Barry Lyndon
Most underrated film. the film follows the fortunes of Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal), a handsome Irish youth forced to flee his hometown after a duel with a cowardly English officer. Stripped of his small fortune by a deferential highwayman, Barry joins the British army and fights in the Seven Years’ War, attempting a desertion that leads him into the Prussian army. He meets a series of surrogate father figures on his journeys. Is it the most beautifully shot film in history? Possibly. Even still, the film is underrated, an overlooked masterpiece.
