Product Description
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The Stanley Kubrick: Visionary Filmmaker Collection on Blu-ray
is an unprecedented 7-film, 8-disc collection. The collection
features the film and bonus content from A Clockwork Orange 40th
Anniversary Edition, the Blu-ray debuts of Lolita and Barry
Lyndon, as well as the feature films 2001: A Space Odyssey, The
Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut.
A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition
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.
* Feature Film
* New Bonus Features
* Malcolm McDowell Looks Back: Malcolm McDowell reflects on his
experience working with legendary director Stanley Kubrick on one
of the seminal films of the 1970s
* Turning Like Clockwork considers the film's ultra-violence and
its cultural impact
Plus
* Commentary by Malcolm McDowell and historian Nick Redman
* Documentary Still Tickin': The Return of Clockwork Orange
* Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making A Clockwork Orange
* Theatrical Trailer
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, but
whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious trickster named
Clare Quilty.
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
O®-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, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into
uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.
Special Features:
* Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood
* Documentary 2001: The Making of a Myth
* Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
* Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
* What Is Out There?
* 2001: A Space Odyssey Conceptual Artwork
* Look: Stanley Kubrick!
* Audio-only Bonus: 1966 Kubrick Interview Conducted by Jeremy
Bernstein
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. He
takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in England with wealth
and power beyond his wildest dreams, before eventually falling
into ruin.
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).
Special Features:
* Commentary by Steadicam inventor/operator Garrett Brown and
historian John Baxter
* Vivian Kubrick's Documentary The Making of the Shining with
Optional Commentary
* View from the Overlook: Crafting The Shining
* The Visions of Stanley Kubrick and Wendy Carlos, Composer
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.
Special Features:
* Commentary by Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and
critic/screenwriter Jay Cocks
* Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
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.
Special Features:
* Three-Part Documentary:
* The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut
* The Haven/Mission Control,
* Artificial Intelligence or The Writer Robot,
* EWS: A Film by Stanley Kubrick
Other Features
* Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
* Interview Gallery Featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and
Steven Spielberg
* Kubrick's 1998 Directors Guild of America D.W. Griffith Award
acceptance speech
Bonus Disc
Jan Harland Documentaries: A Life in Pictures and O Lucky Man
Language and Subtitles Information
Language Audio
* Lolita: English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian
Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish
* Barry Lyndon: English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian
Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish
* A Clockwork Orange: English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian
Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish
* The Shining: English
* Full Metal Jacket: English
* 2001: Space Odyssey: English
* Eyes Wide Shut:English
Subtitles
* Lolita: Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, European
Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish,
French, Cantonese Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish
* Barry Lyndon: Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese,
European Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish,
Swedish, French, Cantonese Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English,
Finnish
* A Clockwork Orange: Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese,
European Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish,
Swedish, French, Cantonese Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English,
Finnish
* The Shining: English
* Full Metal Jacket: English
* 2001: Space Odyssey: English
* Eyes Wide Shut:English
.co.uk Review
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The Stanley Kubrick: Visionary Filmmaker Collection is a
blistering treat for anyone with a deep, longing love of the
movies. It’s a pack that brings together seven films from the
late, great Stanley Kubrick, spread across eight discs.
The quality of the films in question speak for themselves.
There’s the 40th anniversary edition of the groundbreaking A
Clockwork Orange to kick things off, and other high profile
classics include 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Eyes Wide
Shut and Full Metal Jacket.
Yet boxsets such as these also, by their nature, champion the
films that haven’t had such levels of appreciation. Thus, to get
a glistening release of the likes of Lolita and Barry Lyndon is a
massive bonus in itself, and goes a long way to justify the price
of the set.
Some films here get more generous extra features than others,
which is a shame, and there’s still quite possibly the definitive
Stanley Kubrick boxset yet to be made. However, the Visionary
Filmmaker Collection is still a terrific package, bringing
together a clutch of important films from a genuine cinematic
one-off. Quite, quite brilliant. --Jon Foster