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This 10-disc Blu-ray collection includes eight Kubrick classics
as well as two newly-produced documentaries: Kubrick Remembered
and Stanley Kubrick in Focus, plus three additional
documentaries: Once Upon a Time…’A Clockwork Orange’, Stanley
Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, and O Lucky ! Also included will
be a new 78-page hardcover photo book using film archive
photographs.
Films in the collection will be Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove
(1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971),
Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987)
and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick Remembered offers a new look
into the Kubrick archives, with special appearances by the
director’s wife, Christiane Kubrick, as well as never-seen
footage of Stanley’s works, his house and his film production
facilities. Stanley Kubrickin Focus presents such directors as
Steven Spielberg, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, William
Friedkin and Martin Scorsese relating how Kubrick’s directorial
style influenced them.
Disc 1 – Lolita (1962)
Humbert (James Mason), 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, but whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious
trickster named Clare Quilty.
Disc 2 – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb (1964)
The cold war satire is a chilling dark comedy about a psychotic
Air Force General unleashing an ingenious, foolproof and
irrevocable scheme sending bombers to attack Russia, as the U.S.
President works with the Soviet premier in a desperate effort to
save the world. The film stars Peter Sellers, in multiple roles,
as well as George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden.
Disc 3 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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 O®-nominated for
Best Director, Art Direction and Writing. The director (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, and
ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted
space, perhaps even into immortality.
Disc 4 – A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Causing major controversy when first released, the film garnered
four Academy Award® nominations – Best Picture, Best Director,
Best Film Editing and Best Screenplay. The film also introduced
into popular culture the concept of “ultra-violence,” as singing,
tap-dancing, derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a
“good time” – at the tragic expense of others. His journey from
amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms
the dynamic arc of Kubrick’s future-shock vision of Anthony
Burgess’ novel.
Disc 5 – 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 , 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
(Marisa Berenson). He takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in
England with wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams, before
eventually falling into ruin.
Disc 6 – The Shining (1980)
From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, Kubrick
melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking
s 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).
Disc 7 – 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 scathing indictment of a film
was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. ‘Joker’
(Matthew Modine), ‘Animal Mother’ (Adam Baldwin), ‘Gomer’
(Vincent D’Onofrio), ‘Eightball’ (Dorian Harewood) and ‘Cowboy’
(Arliss Howard) are some of the Marine recruits experiencing
boot-camp hell under the punishing command of the foul-mouthed
Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermy). The action is savage, the story
unsparing, and the dialogue is spiked with scathing humor.
Disc 8 – 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. Cruise plays a doctor who plunges into an erotic
foray that threatens his marriage – and may ensnare him in a
murder mystery – after his wife’s (Kidman) admission of sexual
longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to
self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with
masterful flourishes. His graceful tracking s, rich colors
and startling images are some of the bravura traits that show
Kubrick as a filmmaker for the ages.
Disc 9 – Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures / O’ Lucky Malcolm!
· Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Stanley Kubrick’s career comes into sharp focus in the compelling
and revealing documentary narrated by Tom Cruise. A detailed
picture of the cinematic legend emerges via fascinating footage
of Kubrick in his early years, at work on film sets and at home,
and via candid commentary from collaborators, colleagues, and
family. From the music he chose to the cameras he used to his
unrealized projects (including A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the
much- anticipated Kubrick project directed by Steven Spielberg),
you’ll uncover a treasure trove of film-buff information.
Drawing on Kubrick archives, it offers for the first time a truly
portrait of his life among family and friends. There
has never been a more essential visual companion piece to the man
and his movies.
· O’ Lucky Malcolm!
Documentary about the life and career of actor Malcolm McDowell
produced and directed by Jan Harlan.
Disc 10 – Kubrick Remembered / Stanley Kubrick in Focus / Once
Upon a Time … A Clockwork Orange
· Kubrick Remembered – NEW
A new look into the Kubrick archives, with special appearances
by Christiane Kubrick. Featuring never-seen footage of Stanley’s
works, his house and his film production facilities.
· Stanley Kubrick in Focus – NEW to Blu-ray
Spielberg, Soderbergh, Stone, Friedkin, Scorsese and others tell
how Kubrick’s directorial style influenced them and how his
unique style was developed.
· Once Upon a Time … A Clockwork Orange – NEW to the U.S.
Co-written by critic Michel Ciment and featuring interviews with
a psychologist and a sociologist, Once Upon a Time … ‘A Clockwork
Orange’ is a wonderfully unusual cine-documentary that focuses
more on the titular movie’s historical context and philosophy
than on its production and reception. The documentary benefits
from archival audio commentary by the late Stanley Kubrick, who
offers his rationale for making the controversial, devilishly
prescient proto-punk cult classic: “Better to reign in hell than
serve in heaven.”
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