Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

by Christiane Kubrick, Steven Spielberg

The wife of the Hollywood genius shares an intimate portrait of the great director through his favorite medium--photographs--offering more than two hundred images from his first film through his posthumously completed project, A.I.. 15,000 first printing.

Genres: Film, Biography, Photography, Art, Nonfiction, Media Tie In

192 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2002

Reviews

[Steven Godin · Rating 5 out of 5]

For a man who was a very private individual during his lifetime, this book owes a lot of gratitude to his widow Christiane for it's publication, the title of "A life in pictures" says it all really, this is exactly that. Feels like going through a personal photo album, capturing Kubrick in his day job, that being making movie masterpieces. 1953-1999 only thirteen films made, quite astonishing!, but everyone of them he was completely dedicated to, methodically and painstaking, any time scale on completion meant nothing to him until his vision of perfection was realised, taking years if need be, putting many actors through vigorous multi takes (some scenes from "The Shining" over 100!). Going by this collection of photos it was all in his eyes, eyes of total control over his art form, rarely cracking a smile. The greatest director of all time? for me there is no doubt. It still saddens me he never got to make "Napoleon", which was his one big dream.

[Bram Macgregor · Rating 5 out of 5]

A nice tribute to Kubrick from his wife Christiane. Some great photos in here too. Spielbergs intro I could take or leave. If you want to hear his thoughts on Kubrick just watch the documentary tie-in “Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures”. This intro felt unneeded.

5/5.

[Noah McClintock · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you like pictures of Stanley Kubrick, you'll like this book. I happen to like pictures of Stanley Kubrick.

[Filippo Ulivieri · Rating 4 out of 5]

La prima biografia ufficiale di Kubrick, curata dalla moglie Christiane, con una introduzione di Steven Spielberg. Il libro porta avanti la strategia di ridefinizione dell'immagine pubblica di Kubrick, per "correggere l'idea sbagliata che Stanley fosse una sorta di misantropo eremita." Christiane, scrivendo brevi didascalie a 233 foto selezionate, racconta così la vita del marito, tra l'amore per i suoi animali domestici, gli scacchi e il suo guardaroba perennemente in disordine. Le immagini presenti comprendono anche alcuni degli scatti di Kubrick per la rivista LOOK, le riproduzioni di dipinti di Christiane e tre disegni dallo storyboard di Chris Baker per A.I. Intelligenza Artificiale.

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[Timon Karnezos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Blows me away. Perfectly executed.

[Random 75 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Document of The Master Mind : Kubrick

[Clive Aanenson · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent book about a legendary director.

[Danny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredible stuff.