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Article: Stanley Kubrick: A life in pictures

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January 1, 2001
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Written and produced by Jan Harlan. Associate producer Anthony Frewin. Edited by Melanie Viner Cuneo. 141 minutes. Warner Bros. 2001.

After seeing [A Clockwork Orange], I realized it is the only movie about what the modern world really means.

-Luis Bunuel

The image is memorable: Atop a 20-foot tall camera platform, at ease in a side-saddle perch, sits Stanley Kubrick. He's surveying the chaos below of yet another day's shooting of the epic Spartacus. Yet, high above it all, he's as cool and casual as if he were enjoying a tea-time break.

This photograph is just one of hundreds of still images, along with fascinating behindthe-scenes filmmaking footage in Jan Harlan's new documentary, ...

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