Topic: Stanley Kubrick

My favorite documentaries are the ones that start by asking a weird question or uncovering an unknown subculture, then keep digging and digging as...

Oscars' big winners will be books

Oscars on the shelf … Jennifer Lawrence and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak at this week's nominations...

Brrrrr! Ranking the frostiest films ever made

Now that winter has finally moved into the suburbs, it's time to celebrate the season with 10 of the coldest movies ever made.. . Robert Flaherty's...
If Stanley Kubrick were still alive, Room 237 would make him extremely happy. Directed by Rodney Ascher, the experimental documentary gives the...

DVD of the Week

The director Don Siegel's 1964 version of Ernest Hemingway's darkly comic story of death and its dealers (which I discuss in this clip) was Ronald ...
Tweet Share close Digg Stumble Upon Fark Reddit Share Email Print Running on fumes at this point -- 20 movies in my belly -- but running. Herewith...
Enlarge image Criterion Collection via Bloomberg. Elisha Cook as nebbishy racetrack teller George Peatty, and Marie Windsor as his tough-cookie...
Room 237 is my old friend Rodney Ascher's curious new documentary about the hidden (imagined?) meanings and metaphors in Stanley Kubrick's The...

Antonio Banderas: An actor's evolution

By Jay Stone. . Antonio Banderas has two movies coming up. The Skin I Live In, directed by his old friend Pedro Almodovar, is a strangely...
Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made Edited by Alison Castle Taschen 1,112 pp; $79.99. . Reviewed by Chris Knight. . When the...