Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was an American filmmaker. He is
famous for such films as “2001″, “Dr Strangelove”, “Lolita”,
“The Shining” and “Spartacus”. His films succeeded both as art
and as moneymakers. As a film director he was tireless and
wanted everything to be perfect, driving his actors and his
wives to their wit’s end. As a boy in New York he was obviously
bright but he did not do well at school. To help him, his father
got him interested first in chess and then, when Kubrick turned
13, he gave him a camera of his own, which he loved. Kubrick
still did not do well at school and he never went on to
university. Instead the cinema became his university. By day he
worked taking pictures for Look magazine and by night he watched
nearly every film that came out in New York. This was when he
read Pudovkin’s “Film Technique”. These three things taught him
how to make a film. His first film that got any notice was “Fear
and Desire” (1953). It ruined his marriage and got mixed
reviews, but the film clearly sho