Happy birthday, Stanley Kubrick! The iconic film director on mortality, the fear of flying, and the purpose of existence, in a 1968 Playboy interview.
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Happy birthday, Stanley Kubrick! The iconic film director on mortality, the fear of flying, and the purpose of existence, in a 1968 Playboy interview.
Stanley Kubrick, born on this day in 1928, on the meaning of life in a rare Playboy interview he gave when he was 30.
Zen Pencils adapts Stanley Kubrick’s fantastic 1968 Playboy interview on mortality and the meaning of life in a comic.
The folks at Zen Pencils have adapted this rare 1968 interview with Stanley Kubrick on the meaning of life in a lengthy comic.
Also see Zen Pencils’ comic adaptations of Charles Bukowski on the ideal conditions and myths of creativity and Bill Watterson’s advice, based on his spectacular commencement address on creative integrity.
Since Vivian Kubrick was in grade school, she worked as a collaborator with her famous filmmaker father. She had cameos in a number of his movies including 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barry Lyndon. She shot the behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of The Shining at the age of 24. And she composed the score for Full Metal Jacket under the pseudonym of Abigail Mead. Kubrick seemed to groom his daughter to be his cinematic heir. And then in the late 90s, that all stopped. She cut off all contact with her family.
Excellent Open Culture piece on Kubrick and his daughter, with newly revealed photographs of Vivian growing up.
Also see Kubrick’s most revealing interview.
The ultimate geeky homage to Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove adapted in LEGO.
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People react primarily to direct experience and not to abstractions; it is very rare to find anyone who can become emotionally involved with an abstraction.
For Stanley Kubrick’s 85th birthday today, the greatest movie never made – his Napoleon biopic, resurrected.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick, who would’ve been 85 today, on mortality, the fear of flying, and the purpose of existence – a rare 1968 Playboy interview.
February 9, 1960
Dear Mr. Bergman,
You have most certainly received enough acclaim and success throughout the world to make this note quite unnecessary. But for whatever it’s worth, I should like to add my praise and gratitude as a fellow director for the unearthly and brilliant contribution you have made to the world by your films (I have never been in Sweden and have therefore never had the pleasure of seeing your theater work). Your vision of life has moved me deeply, much more deeply than I have ever been moved by any films. I believe you are the greatest film-maker at work today. Beyond that, allow me to say you are unsurpassed by anyone in the creation of mood and atmosphere, the subtlety of performance, the avoidance of the obvious, the truthfullness and completeness of characterization. To this one must also add everything else that goes into the making of a film. I believe you are blessed with wonderfull actors. Max von Sydow and Ingrid Thulin live vividly in my memory, and there are many others in your acting company whose names escape me. I wish you and all of them the very best of luck, and I shall look forward with eagerness to each of your films.
Best Regards,
(Signed, ‘Stanley Kubrick’)
A fan mail letter to Ingmar Bergman from Stanley Kubrick, born on July 26, 1928 – the best thing since Isaac Asimov’s fan mail to young Carl Sagan.
So great: If Stanley Kubrick had directed Game of Thrones and Saul Bass had designed the poster.
Pair with the legacy in film and design Saul Bass did leave.
Legendary New York street photographer Weegee documents Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, 1963.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Happy birthday, Stanley Kubrick – celebrate with this fantastic 1968 Playboy interview, in which the iconic director discusses mortality, hope, the fear of flying, and the purpose of existence.