Stanley Kubrick was one of the great filmmakers of our time and his profound influence on motion pictures continues to this day. His 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange, starring Malcolm McDowell, portrayed an oppressive lawless society where man was reduced to little more than a machine. This was a powerful film made by a director at the height of his artistry and its impact generated worldwide controversy.
The Stanley Kubrick: Limited Edition Collection on Blu-ray is an unprecedented 7-film, 8-disc collection. The collection includes bonus content.
Titles Comprise:
A Clockwork Orange
Causing major controversy when first released, the film garnered four Academy
Award nominations – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best
Screenplay – and is #4 on AFI's Top 10 List of Best Science Fiction films
of All Time.
Lolita: (1962)
Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to
small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a
relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady,
whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman's 14-year-old
flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love.
2001: A Space Odyssey: (1968)
Stanley Kubrick's dazzling, Academy Award-winning achievement (Special Visual
Effects) is an allegorical puzzle on the evolution of man and a compelling drama
of man vs. machine. Featuring a stunning meld of music and motion, the film was
also Oscar-nominated for Best Director, Art Direction and Writing. Kubrick (who
co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits the prehistoric
age-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump
cuts ever) into colonized space.
Barry Lyndon: (1975)
Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) is a young, roguish Irishman who's determined, in
any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman. Enlisting in the
British Army and fighting in Europe's Seven Years War, Barry deserts, then
joins the Prussian army, gets promoted to the rank of a spy, and becomes a pupil
to a Chevalier and con artist/gambler. Barry then lies, dupes, duels and seduces
his way up the social ladder, entering into a lustful but loveless marriage to a
wealthy countess named Lady Lyndon.
The Shining: (1980)
From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, Kubrick melds vivid
performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots and shock after shock
into a milestone of the macabre. The Shining is the director's epic tale of a
man in a snowbound hotel descending into murderous delusions. In a signature
role, Jack Nicholson (“Heeeere's Johnny!”) stars as Jack Torrance,
who's come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with
his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd).
Full Metal Jacket: (1987)
A superb ensemble falls in for Stanley Kubrick's brilliant saga about the
Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers.
The action is savage, the story unsparing, and the dialogue is spiked with
scathing humour.
Eyes Wide Shut: (1999)
Kubrick's daring and controversial last film is a bracing psychosexual journey
through a haunting dreamscape, a riveting suspense tale and a career milestone
for stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
Note: This is an imported product that has been officially rated by the Film and Video Labelling Body of New Zealand. As this is sourced from overseas, the discs may not play on standard DVD players.