Kubrick
Added 2024-09-05 20:00:04 +0000 UTCWhat is your favorite Kubrick film?
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1. Barry Lyndon 2. The Shining 3. 2001 4. A Clockwork Orange 5. Lolita
Craig Murdock
2024-09-09 23:20:24 +0000 UTCSparticus as a kid. The Shining as an adult.
Matt C
2024-09-07 06:56:13 +0000 UTCProbably A Clockwork Orange, but it's not the kind of film I could watch any given day.
Edward Looney
2024-09-06 22:40:13 +0000 UTCI'd say Paths of Glory. It's the one I think about most when it comes to Kubrick. His catalog is nearly flawless but Paths of Glory is my favorite.
Nathan Jones
2024-09-06 20:17:35 +0000 UTCI think I'd have to go with Spartacus, it was the first Kubrick film I saw and I've got a soft spot for films set in Ancient Rome, also I'm a big fan of Kirk Douglas so it ticks a lot of boxes for me.
Ross Skilton
2024-09-06 13:48:51 +0000 UTC"Barry Lyndon", definitely. Probably the best analysis of how Capitalism ruins human nature.
Alexandros Alexandropoulos
2024-09-06 07:31:21 +0000 UTCDr. Strangelove For me, Kubrick was at his best when he turned his droll clinical eye on vast, monolithic institutions--how in their impersonal way they snuff out the humanity in individuals to suit their own ends. Inversely, Kubrick took delight in showing how humanity, in all its folly and madness, can corrupt an institution from within...and proceed to allow it to fuck up everything it was charged with doing. Dr. Strangelove, I think, remains his most engaging, fully realized study of pessimism in humans, a nightmare comic vision of nuclear annihilation made at the time of greatest paranoia against it. Peter Sellers is no less of a tour de force as three of the key roles (including the titular character, whose rogue Nazi-saluting hand remains one of the funniest bits of screen physical comedy), but he's ably supported by George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, and Sterling Hayden babbling about "precious bodily fluids." Kubrick would go on to make films that are more technically astounding (2001), audaciously subversive (A Clockwork Orange), or just plain iconic in its imagery (The Shining), but Dr. Strangelove, to me, benefits immensely from being liberated from the cold, meticulous technique that tended to weigh down his later films. With this, his last film in black in white, he was looser, breezier, more succinct...while still able to deliver his sensibility and ideas that he would go on to explore the rest of his career. It helps that he gives a lot of the movie over to Sellers and writer Terry Southern, and allow them to infuse their comic gifts into the proceedings. Strangelove is the last film Kubrick made that was of himself before he went on to 2001 and became consumed by the sterile aesthetic that continues to polarize viewers. It is for that reason that it may be his most satisfying work.
Bennett Oliver
2024-09-06 04:47:29 +0000 UTCI own the 4K from Kino Lorber. It’s definitely not my favorite, but you could tell Kubrick was a talent like no other even back then.
TenzingNorgay82
2024-09-05 22:14:14 +0000 UTCWho’s going to be the first to pick Fear and Desire? 😂
TenzingNorgay82
2024-09-05 22:13:25 +0000 UTCThis usually changes based on the last one I saw, but I was stunned by how affecting Paths of Glory was. Probably our most effective mainstream anti-war filmmaker ever when you factor in Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket. Not just saying “war is hell” but that the people involved in the military or civilian leadership are either monsters already or become monsters.
Jim Barnes
2024-09-05 22:10:15 +0000 UTCI was never a huge Kubrick fan, but The Killing is probably my favorite. Good story. Shot well. Not 2.5+ hours long.
Shaeffer Holt
2024-09-05 21:03:34 +0000 UTCTorn between Barry Lyndon and 2001.
Dushan Perera
2024-09-05 20:46:24 +0000 UTCThis is a tough one. His films get better with multiple watches, so it changes every 6-12 months. Right now, it’s Barry Lyndon. Structure wise, it’s a lot like clockwork. except, I actually feel for the guy (SPOILER ALERT) after he loses his kid and chooses not to kill his step son. He got punished for choosing the high road which is devastating. The movie has a lot more heart than Kubrick is given credit for, and i didn’t see it on my first watch.
Scott
2024-09-05 20:45:08 +0000 UTCThat is a difficult question for me, particularly as Kubrick explored so many genres and watching by genre is is a major factor in how I self-medicate. I would say that The Shining is the one I watch most often, because it is a horror film, even though in my view he didn't respect the genre enough to really engage with the source material and so the end result was not as strong as it could have been.
Daniel
2024-09-05 20:24:41 +0000 UTCBarry Lyndon, currently, but watching 2001 with a live orchestra was my favourite theatre experience of all-time. Doctor Strangelove is the one I quote the most and the ending of Paths of Glory destroys me every time.
Drew Perkins
2024-09-05 20:21:19 +0000 UTC1. 2001 - Still for now the film I call my all time favorite. 2. Barry Lyndon 3. Dr Strangelove 4. Paths of Glory 5. Lolita 6. Eyes Wide Shut 7. The Shining 8. A Clockwork Orange 9. Full Metal Jacket 10. The Killing 1-7 are all time great films for me. 8 is excellent and 9&10 are just a notch below Need to see - Spartacus - Fear and Desire - Killers Kiss Honorable Mention One Eyed Jacks while credited to Brando is very much a Kubrick film. He was fired a week before shooting and yet his fingerprints are all over it. It’s an excellent film I’d rank just behind A Clockwork Orange.
Stephen
2024-09-05 20:12:55 +0000 UTC2001: A Space Odyssey. I rewatched it for the first time in a few years last month and it never fails to completely tranfix me as if I was hypnotized by a stopwatch.
Wolfman Brandon
2024-09-05 20:11:53 +0000 UTCFrom a quotability standpoint, Full Metal Jacket would have to be tops on my list.
TenzingNorgay82
2024-09-05 20:08:49 +0000 UTCA tie between Paths of Glory and Barry Lyndon. Both films delve into humanity, human psychology, and morality, but still isn’t afraid of having pathos. Personally I don’t gravitate towards his films that are cold and calculated, like The Shining and A Clockwork Orange.
Henri J. Mertens
2024-09-05 20:08:37 +0000 UTCGrowing up I would've said The Shining as it scared the living daylights out of me however as I got older I really began to appreciate Eyes Wide Shut and it's honestly one of those rare movies where I'll learn something new with each and every re-watch.
Vejay S.
2024-09-05 20:04:08 +0000 UTCBarry Lyndon but it’s difficult. There’s like 4 favorites (BL, 2001, Shining, Eyes Wide Shut)
Shane Palamara
2024-09-05 20:03:20 +0000 UTC
