Cracking the Kube: Solving the mysteries of Stanley Kubrick through archival research

by Filippo Ulivieri

Maestro. Genius. Legend.
Respected. Celebrated. Worshipped.
Stanley Kubrick is one of the most famous and discussed filmmakers, yet much about his work remains mysterious.
For the past twenty years, Filippo Ulivieri has interviewed Kubrick’s closest collaborators and associates, gathering firsthand accounts of his films’ creation and the director’s personality. He has also delved into archives, uncovering production documents, memos, correspondence, and never-before-seen material.
This collection features Ulivieri’s most up-to-date research, challenging myths, misconceptions, clichés, and false theories about Stanley Kubrick’s life and films.
Think you know Kubrick? Think again.

392 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 15, 2024

About the author

Born in 1977, Filippo Ulivieri is a writer and a teacher of film theory. He is the leading expert in Stanley Kubrick’s cinema in Italy with 15+ years of research on the subject: his features on the director’s career have appeared in several newspapers and magazines. Stanley Kubrick and Me has been published in Italy in 2012. He is co-scenarist of Alex Infascelli’s documentary S is for Stanley (2015).