Stanley's Life
Stanley Kubrick was and still is one of the most famous directors. But what about his past, his personalities, his inspirations, and his skills that turned him into such a great director?
Kubrick was born on July 26, 1928, in Bronx of New York city. He was born between Jewish parents, Jack Kubrick and Sadie Kubrick. As a boy, Kubrick preferred reading books rather than playing outside, but in school, he did not get such high grades expected from a Jewish child. When he was 12 years old, his father taught him chess, which Kubrick quickly learned and loved, and appeared in many scenes of his multiple films. At the age of 13, Kubrick's father bought him a Graflex camera and Kubrick developed an interest for still photography. In high school, he was chosen as the official photographer of the year, but he continued the struggle with academics and hope for higher education died with demands of college admissions from soldiers returning from WWII.
In 1946, Kubrick became a apprentice photographer (then later full-time staff photographer) of Look and produced many photos, but he was obsessed with the art of filmmaking, and spent many hours reading film theory books and taking notes. He frequently visited film screenings at the Museum of Modern Art and the cinemas of New York City. He was inspired by the complex, fluid camerawork of the director Max Ophüls, whose films influenced Kubrick's later visual style, and by the director Elia Kazan, whom he described as America's "best director" at that time, with his ability of "performing miracles" with his actors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_smFilming
Kubrick created multiple filming techniques such as:
Match cut - two completely different scenes occupy the same shot in a frame, but the objects in the scenes are "matched".
Cinerama - using three synchronized 35mm projectors to produce image on a large, deeply curved screen.
Super Panavision 70 - photographing the movie with Panavision 70 mm spherical optics.
Anamorphic 35mm horizontal super technirama - process that allows ultra high definition, allowing Kubrick to capture large panoramic scenes.
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/narratology/terms/match.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Panavision_70
http://www.reddit.com/r/CineShots/comments/2brrjq/2001_a_space_odyssey/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick#2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_.281968.29
Stanley Kubrick's best known films:
humans voyage to the planet Jupiter tracing monolith which is affecting the human evolution.
U.S. marines are trained and sent to fight in the Vietnam War. Many people, both Americans and Vietnamese, suffers in the war.
Spartacus - a Thracian gladiator Spartacus leading a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
The Full Metal Jacket Review
http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=14714
The critic on the review:
Too little information of the film was added. It did not discuss the elements of the film quite enough, such as character development and filming techniques. The style of writing was too confusing to understand exactly what was being discussed.
In 1946, Kubrick became a apprentice photographer (then later full-time staff photographer) of Look and produced many photos, but he was obsessed with the art of filmmaking, and spent many hours reading film theory books and taking notes. He frequently visited film screenings at the Museum of Modern Art and the cinemas of New York City. He was inspired by the complex, fluid camerawork of the director Max Ophüls, whose films influenced Kubrick's later visual style, and by the director Elia Kazan, whom he described as America's "best director" at that time, with his ability of "performing miracles" with his actors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_smFilming
Kubrick created multiple filming techniques such as:
Match cut - two completely different scenes occupy the same shot in a frame, but the objects in the scenes are "matched".
Cinerama - using three synchronized 35mm projectors to produce image on a large, deeply curved screen.
Super Panavision 70 - photographing the movie with Panavision 70 mm spherical optics.
Anamorphic 35mm horizontal super technirama - process that allows ultra high definition, allowing Kubrick to capture large panoramic scenes.
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/narratology/terms/match.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Panavision_70
http://www.reddit.com/r/CineShots/comments/2brrjq/2001_a_space_odyssey/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick#2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_.281968.29
Stanley Kubrick's best known films:
humans voyage to the planet Jupiter tracing monolith which is affecting the human evolution.
U.S. marines are trained and sent to fight in the Vietnam War. Many people, both Americans and Vietnamese, suffers in the war.
Spartacus - a Thracian gladiator Spartacus leading a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
The Full Metal Jacket Review
http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=14714
The critic on the review:
Too little information of the film was added. It did not discuss the elements of the film quite enough, such as character development and filming techniques. The style of writing was too confusing to understand exactly what was being discussed.
