Stanley Kubrick
1) Filmworker
Author
Language
English
Description
Leon Vitali was a rising British television actor when Stanley Kubrick picked him for the role of Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon. That first encounter with the famed auteur proved decisive - he swiftly resolved to devote the rest of his life working for the director, this time behind the scenes, and took on just about every job available: casting director, acting coach, location scouter, sound engineer, color corrector, A.D., promoter, and eventually...
Author
Language
English
Description
This unique documentary is composed entirely of archival footage and photographs, accompanied by the voice of Stanley Kubrick. Taken from a series of rare interviews, the film provides an opportunity to understand the work of a master filmmaker, giving voice to one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, as well as one of the most controversial and enigmatic.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the...
5) Spartacus
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen version ; Two-disc special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage and ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem ... but not all goes to plan.
11) The shining
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
12) The shining
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts.
13) Spartacus
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Restored edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (197 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a gladiator who leads slaves in a rebellion against the power of Rome.
14) Paths of glory
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : ill. ; 19 x 12 cm)
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (243 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
It is the middle of the 21st century. Extremely sophisticated robots do everything from nannying to prostitution, supplying the illusion of feeling, but true emotion has eluded the android builders. Until Professor Hobby builds David, a robot boy who can really love. In the same manner that some people substitute pets for more demanding human relationships, the Swinton's try to fill the void left by the illness (and subsequent cryogenic animation)...
16) Paths of glory
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The French General Staff, safely behind the lines, sends orders for what amounts to a suicide mission. To cover up their fatal blunder, three soldiers are arrested and made scapegoats. A harsh attack on the futility of war in general (World War I in particular) and a blistering indictment of military politics.
17) Fear and Desire
Author
Language
English
Description
FEAR AND DESIRE is the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's PATHS OF GLORY (1957) and FULL METAL JACKET (1987), FEAR AND DESIRE follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia Leith) and bind her to a tree, where she is tormented...
18) Paths Of Glory
Author
Language
English
Description
This powerful, fact-based absurdity-of-war film stars Kirk Douglas as a commanding officer who defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
19) The Killing
Author
Language
English
Description
With fascinating detail, Stanley Kubrick lays bare the intricate inner-planning of a racetrack heist by a deadly mastermind (Sterling Hayden) and his crew. Co-stars Coleen Gray.
20) Lolita
Author
Language
English
Description
Stanley Kubrick directs this dark, comedic adaptation about a universityprofessor who becomes so infatuated with a 14 year-old girl, he marriesher mother in order to stay close to her.