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Eyes wide open at Stanley Kubrick, a giant of the cinema
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Eyes wide open at Stanley Kubrick, a giant of the cinema
By Tom Ryan
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Yale University Press, $45.99
The best chapter in David Mikics’ biographical sketch of Stanley Kubrick and his work is the first. There, his judicious outline of the late writer-director’s preoccupations comes with a rush: “[M]ost Kubrick movies are about rebellion of some kind”; “His movies are about mastery that fails”; “A Kubrick movie is often a highly programmed world that severely controls the people in it”; “A number of Kubrick movies end with the hero trapped or immobilised … Others present in their last scenes an ambiguous rebirth that feels at once freeing and frightening.”