Stanley Kubrick DVD release of his classics reminds us what a genius's movies look like

The Boston Globe | July 4, 1999| | Copyright

Most directors make movies for a living. Stanley Kubrick lived to make movies.

The filmmaker, who died unexpectedly in March, was an enigma. The Bronx-born resident of England has been described as aloof, obsessed, calculating, cold, cutting, compassionate, funny, humorless, sympathetic, tough, and understanding in books ranging from Vincent LoBrutto's "Stanley Kubrick: A Biography" to Norman Kagan's "The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick." He never went to film school but began as a freelance magazine photographer for Look in 1949. He was trained not by the studios but on the streets of New York, ...

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