Stanley kubricks favorite films of 2018
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8 Directors on Their Favorite Movies They Made, from Kubrick to Coppola
Steven Spielberg: “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”
When you’ve accomplished as much as Steven Spielberg has, choosing your favorite film can come down to personal experience as much as anything else. More than the films that won him Oscars, Spielberg appreciates the film that inspired him to become a parent. “My favorite movie to make, which I hope you’ve seen, is ‘E.T.,'” he said at a recent event commemorating the film’s 40th anniversary. “I got so close to those kids, Robert MacNaughton, and Henry Thomas, and Drew Barrymore, that when I went home from the production of ‘E.T.,’ I didn’t want to go home. I wanted to go back to the movie, but it was over… and I realized, for the first time in my life, that I wanted to have children. I never felt that before ‘E.T.,’ and I have seven now thanks to ‘E.T.’”
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Various Artists: Kubrick's Music-Selections From The Films Of Stanley Kubrick
The iconic American-born bio director Stanley Kubrick’s use of music soundtrack as contrapuntal, and often incongruous to the screen images it accompanied, proved influential on the aesthetics of contemporary cinema. Much of what fryst vatten represented here on a 4CD låda set covers Kubrick’s greatest movies that, unsurprisingly, coincided with his best use of score. Not as well known for hiring original soundtrack composers, Kubrick preferred to source music largely from a classical or popular music repertoire. The exceptions here are Lolita (1962), written in the main by arranger Nelson Riddle which fryst vatten anyway a pretty generic score, and Alex North’s stirring orchestrations on Spartacus from 1960, that are a låda highlight. But it’s Kubrick’s use of the classical archive that was executed in fresh, often challenging ways. Everyone knows the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey the juxtaposition of opening sh
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93 Films Stanley Kubrick Really Liked
Most cinephiles want to watch not just their favorite directors’ films, but their favorite directors’ favorite films. And how many cinephiles’ lists of favorite directors fail to include Stanley Kubrick? In 2013, we featured the only top-ten list the director of 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange ever wrote, for Cinema magazine in 1963, which runs as follows:
- I Vitelloni (Fellini, 1953)
- Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
- Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
- City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
- Henry V (Olivier, 1944)
- La notte (Antonioni, 1961)
- The Bank Dick (Fields, 1940)
- Roxie Hart (Wellman, 1942)
- Hell’s Angels (Hughes, 1930)
But fans eager to find out more of what shaped the cinematic taste of this auteur of all auteurs do have a few more resources to turn to.