Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

Director:

Jan Harlan

Genre:

Documentary | Biography

Plot:

The career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise.

Plot Keywords:

Stanley Kubrick | Narration | Photography | Interview | Film Director

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Tom Cruise	...	Himself (Narrator) (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ken Adam	...	Himself
Margaret Adams	...	Herself
Brian Aldiss	...	Himself
Woody Allen	...	Himself
Steven Berkoff	...	Himself
Louis C. Blau	...	Himself
John Calley	...	Himself
Milena Canonero	...	Herself
Wendy Carlos	...	Herself
Arthur C. Clarke	...	Himself
Alex Cox	...	Himself
Allen Daviau	...	Himself
Ed Di Giulio	...	Himself
Keir Dullea	...	Himself
Shelley Duvall	...	Herself
Anthony Frewin	...	Himself
James B. Harris	...	Himself
Michael Herr	...	Himself
Mike Herrtage	...	Himself
Philip Hobbs	...	Himself
Irene Kane	...	Herself (as Chris Chase)
Nicole Kidman	...	Herself
Barbara Kroner	...	Herself
Anya Kubrick	...	Herself
Christiane Kubrick	...	Herself
Gert Kubrick	...	Herself (archive footage)
Katharina Kubrick	...	Herself (as Katharina Kubrick-Hobbs)
Paul Lashmar	...	Himself
György Ligeti	...	Himself
Steven Marcus	...	Himself (as Prof. Steven Marcus)
Paul Mazursky	...	Himself
Malcolm McDowell	...	Himself
Douglas Milsome	...	Himself (as Doug Milsome)
Matthew Modine	...	Himself
Jack Nicholson	...	Himself
Tony Palmer	...	Himself
Alan Parker	...	Himself
Sydney Pollack	...	Himself
Richard Schickel	...	Himself
Martin Scorsese	...	Himself
Terry Semel	...	Himself
Alexander Singer	...	Himself (as Alex Singer)
Steven Spielberg	...	Himself
Sybil Taylor	...	Herself
Douglas Trumbull	...	Himself (as Doug Trumbull)
Peter Ustinov	...	Himself (as Sir Peter Ustinov)
Marie Windsor	...	Herself
Alan Yentob	...	Himself
Todd Field	...	Himself (uncredited)
Jan Harlan	...	Himself (uncredited)
Stanley Kubrick	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Vivian Kubrick	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leon Vitali	...	Himself (uncredited)

Directed by
Jan Harlan

Produced by
Anthony Frewin	....	associate producer
Jan Harlan	....	producer

Cinematography by
Manuel Harlan

Film Editing by
Melanie Viner-Cuneo

Sound Department
Nigel Galt	....	sound supervisor
Manuel Harlan	....	sound
Graham V. Hartstone	....	sound re-recording mixer
Brendan Nicholson	....	sound re-recording mixer
Tom Gambale	....	sound post-production (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Ken Morse	....	camera operator: rostrum camera

Editorial Department
Nick Adams	....	colorist
Alan Jones	....	on-line editor
Claus Wehlisch	....	assistant editor: avid

Other crew
Katie Barget	....	transcriptions
Marianne Bower	....	picture researcher
Andrea Cunnington	....	transcriptions
Camille DeBiase	....	picture researcher
Nick Frewin	....	computer supporter
Tom Gambale	....	picture researcher
Vivian Kubrick	....	additional footage

Thanks
Tony Lawson	....	thanks
Martin Short	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Warner Bros. Home Video
• Warner Bros. Pictures

Distributors

• Warner Bros. Pictures (2001) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2001) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2001) (Germany) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2001) (Canada) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2001) (Spain) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (200?) (Italy) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (200?) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2001) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (200?) (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Sound Design Company, The  sound editing

Also Known As:

"Maailma Kubrickin silmin" - Finland
"Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film" - Germany
"Stanley Kubrick - ohjaajan muotokuva" - Finland
"Stanley Kubrick: Egy élet a film tükrében" - Hungary (imdb display title)
"Stanley Kubrick: Uma Vida em Filmes" - Portugal (imdb display title)
"Stanley Kubrick: Una vida a través del cine" - Mexico (imdb display title)
"Stanley Kubrick: Una vida en imágenes" - Spain
"Stanley Kubrick: Une vie en images" - France
"Stanley Kubrick: Zycie w obrazach" - Poland (imdb display title)

Runtime:

142 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Canada:G | Australia:MA | Germany:12 | Spain:T | USA:Not Rated

Company:

Warner Bros. Home Video

Quotes:

Jack Nicholson:Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.

Movie Connections:

Features The Shining (1980)

Terrific Overview

I only have two problems with this otherwise fantastic documentary: Tom Cruise's narration and the fact that EVERYONE he worked with (actors, producers, studio heads) just praised and praised the man as a "difficult but genius" force. From what I've read, there are probably several hundred people who hated him when he was alive. He was especially cruel to Shelley Duvall, and I've read interviews with her when Kubrick was ALIVE, who said making The Shining was the worst experience of her life. Now, in this documentary, she talks about how she has absolutely no regrets, because it made her "smarter." Maybe so. But more than likely there would have been a completely different attitude if this documentary had been made while he was still alive. And Tom Cruise's narration--I kept hearing "I worked with the greatest director of all time on his last movie, so there!" in his self-important narration. Malcolm McDowell would have been a more appropriate choice, in my opinion, as the humble narrator. But all in all, this is an excellent examination of a brilliant mind, a trade photographer who made arguably the greatest string of films in the history of cinema, from Lolita to The Shining (at least in my humble opinion).