Stanley Kubrick: A Biography - Hardcover

Lobrutto

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556114923 ISBN 13: 9781556114922

Publisher: Donald I Fine Books, 1997

Synopsis

Based on interviews with Kubrick's immediate family, his first and second wives, writers with whom Kubrick has worked--such as Stephen King and Terry Southern--and actors whom Kubrick has directed, an intimate biography presents a picture of a powerful filmmaker and a reclusive man.

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Review:

In 1962, an MGM trailer teased its audience by asking "How Did They Ever Make a Movie Out of Lolita?" Readers of this book, which recounts the life of Lolita's director, might reasonably ask, "How Did They Ever Write a Biography of Stanley Kubrick?" Kubrick is the most reclusive of celebrities, a man who seems mysterious even to those who have known and worked with him. Vincent Lobrutto's engrossing and beautifully researched biography succeeds in tracing this meticulous and brilliant visionary from his childhood and early career as a photographer for Look magazine to his creation of masterpieces such as Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket. Lobrutto concludes his book by discussing projects that have not yet been realized: Eyes Wide Shut, a film about sexual obsession, the Holocaust drama Aryan Papers, and the most eagerly awaited of Kubrick's prospective movies, the science fiction film A.I.

Review:

"Meticulously researched....[A] brave foray into the world and mind of an intensely complex subject". -- Minneapolis Star Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Donald I Fine Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1556114923
• ISBN 13: 9781556114922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 579