Stanley Kubrick
9 titles · american genre
Cold symmetry applied to human failure. Kubrick worked across every genre with the same detachment — institutions and systems shown grinding down the people inside them, filmed in precise one-point perspective and scored against the grain.
Signature
- One-point perspective and centred, receding corridors.
- Classical music set ironically against violence.
- Institutional processes — military, hotel, hospital — as antagonist.
- Performances pushed toward the grotesque by exhaustive repetition.
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
Full Metal Jacket
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Paths of Glory
Barry Lyndon
Spartacus
The Killing
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