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Stanley Kubrick

God of Filmmaking Stanley Kubrick Director of Eyes Wide Shut Biography:
Stanley Kubrick was born on July 26^th, 1928 in New York City, New York. He showed very little interest in academics throughout his school years, focusing instead on his creative passions which included chess, drumming, literature, and photography. At the age of sixteen he sold a photograph that he took of a man selling a newspaper announcing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death to Look magazine.

This transaction would soon turn into an apprenticeship with the publication and before long he was a staff photographer. During this artistic grooming he would graduate from William Howard Taft High School, but poor grades and lack of enthusiasm keep him from seriously pursuing any higher education.

Kubrick was also an avid film enthusiast and in his youth he would travel across in the city to see anything that was playing. In 1951 he would dig into his savings account to produce a thirteen minute documentary titled “Day of the Fight”, which follows middleweight boxer Walter Cartier as he prepares for a bout (Cartier had previously been the subject of one of his Look assignments). Despite some initial troubles with distribution, Kubrick would end up selling the film to RKO Pictures for a profit of one hundred dollars.

Spurred by his meager success, he quit his job with Look and started working on his second documentary. This time funded by RKO, “Flying Padre” is a nine minute short featuring Father Fred Stadtmueller who tended to his massive New Mexican parish using a Piper Cub airplane. Next was “The Seafarers”, a thirty minute industrial film for the Seafarers’ International Union. With a handful of shorts under his belt, and his confidence high, Kubrick was ready to move on to longer productions.

Raising money from family and friends, Kubrick would use a script written by his friend Howard Sackler to produce his first feature length film. Titled Fear and Desire, the film was well received in the New York independent film scene. This would lead to the film noir Killer’s Kiss, which would also fair well in the same circuits.

An introduction to young producer James B. Harris would launch a partnership that would result in The Killing in 1956. Kubrick and Harris would maintain their professional association through Paths of Glory and Lolita. The critical and financial success of these films would be the beginnings of an unprecedented filmmaking career that would ultimately lead to such masterpieces as A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Shining. Stanley Kubrick died of a heart attack in his sleep on March 7^th, 1999; only four days after delivering the final cut of what would be his last film, Eyes Wide Shut.

Films:

Fear and Desire (1953)

Killer's Kiss (1955)

The Killing (1956)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Spartacus (1960)

Lolita (1962)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

The Shining (1980)