Kubrick : an odyssey /
This immersive biography of the legendary director of films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange is based on new research and interviews with family members and those who worked with him.
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2024.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A relatively normal life'
- 'From oddball to intriguing misfit' 1928-1945
- 'Stan Kubrick, photo, 1414 Shakespeare Ave., NYC' 1945-1949
- 'As if we were doing War and Peace' 1949-1951
- 'A bumbling amateur film exercise' 1951-1953
- 'Baby, nobody's going to get anything out of this movie but me' 1953-1955
- 'The gangster and the artist' 1955-1956
- 'He provides a very necessary threat' 1956
- 'Stanley, I don't think this picture will ever make a nickel, but we have to make it' 1957-1958
- 'Stanley Hubris' 1958-1959
- 'Now I can make a story that I have a crush on' 1959-1961
- 'Intrigued by the threat of nuclear war' 1961-1962
- 'I'm a bit more of a science-fiction addict than you might have suspected' 1963-1964
- 'Science fiction? You've got to be kidding' 1964-1965
- 'Mr Cool' 1965-1968
- 'Americans don't like films where people write with feathers' 1968-1970
- 'A terrible man. Just shocking' 1970-1972
- 'I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering' 1972-1974
- 'He is never far wrong about anything' 1974-1975
- 'I've always liked fairy tales and myths' 1976-1977
- 'He was an artist, with the inner life of one, dreaming about his work' 1977-1978
- 'How can we do it better than it's ever been done before?' 1978-1980
- 'Anxiously awaiting getting an idea' 1980-1982
- 'A terse spitball of a book, fine and real and terrifying' 1982-1984
- 'As daunting an inscrutible as a monolith' 1984-1987
- 'I might just tinker with it a little. . .' 1988-1991
- 'Routines of evasive deception' 1991-1993
- 'His creative process and mind were not sufficiently aligned' 1994-1995
- 'Didn't he wind up. . .in some place with a very bad climate?' 1995-1996
- 'It's my best film ever' 1996-1999
- 'The guy who was my pal' March-December 1999.