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Director

Stanley Kubrick

USA · New York · b. July 26, 1928 – d. March 7, 1999

The cold perfectionist who made films about the terror of being human. Every frame a painting. Every scene a thesis. His films don't age; they calcify into monuments of controlled dread.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →