Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1929 – March 7, 1999) was a Jewish-American film director, producer, screenwriter, photographer, and cinematographer. He has influenced the cinema around the world with the different technical methods he has tried in order to achieve aesthetic perfection in his productions and has been accepted as one of the best directors of all time.
Stanley Kubrick did not prefer to write original screenplays in most of his works. In Kubrick’s cinema, which adapts the works of famous literary writers, intense symbolism and realism are seen apart from the perfectionist atmosphere. Kubrick has produced different genres of works including horror, war, detective fiction, dark humor and science fiction.
| Paths of Glory (1957) | |
| Spartacus (1960) | |
| Lolita (1962) | |
| Dr. Strange Love (1964) | |
| A Space Odyssey (1968) | |
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) | |
| Barry Lyndon (1975) | |
| Insanity (1980) | |
| Full Metal Jacket (1987) | |
| Eyes Widely Closed (1999). |
Famous Director and producer Kubrick settled permanently in the United Kingdom, where he moved temporarily for the shooting of the movie Lolita, after the completion of the shooting of the movie, and continued to live in his home in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom until 1999, when he passed away.
Legendary director, who started his career by taking amateur photographs for New York’s Look magazine, soon became one of the photographers of Look magazine.
Kubrick, who started directing believing that he could do much better than the films he watched, proved himself with his first films Fear and Desire, Killer’s Kiss and The Killing. Paths of Glory and Spartacus made him take his place among good directors.
