DGA Quarterly Fall 2005 - click here to return to Table of Contents
All Photos are from The Stanley Kubrick Archives, edited by Alison Castle, published by Taschen. Photos © courtesy of The Stanley Kubrick Estate.
The Stanley Kubrick Archives from Taschen Books is the first volume to draw from the director’s personal collection. -
THE WHITE HOUSE: Preparing to shoot the concluding sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
DO IT THIS WAY: Kubrick demonstrates the proper technique for pie throwing to George C. Scott and other world leaders in the war room in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb.
OPEN THE POD BAY DOOR HAL...: Kubrick is delighted with production designer Tony Masters’ idea for deprogramming Hal inside the computer’s logic center in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
TOO YOUNG TO SMOKE: A pensive Kubrick talks it over with Sue Lyon, the teenage nymphet in Lolita.
DARK ROOM: Ryan O’Neal and Hardy Krüger with Kubrick on the candle-lit set of Barry Lyndon.
STRIKE THREE: Shelley Duvall wards off a crazed Jack Nicholson with a baseball bat in a scene from The Shining.
MIRROR IMAGE: Kubrick frames a shot with femme fatale Irene Kane in Killer’s Kiss. The director was his own cinematographer and editor on the film noir.
THE OLD ULTRA-VIOLENCE: Malcolm McDowell (left) and his droogs driving a stolen car in a scene from A Clockwork Orange. The shot was filmed using rear projection.
WHO'S SPARTACUS: To film this battlefield scene in Spartacus, Kubrick put numbers next to extras playing dead bodies so he could call out directions to them.
DEAD RIGHT: Julienne Davis, playing a corpse, makes a point to Tom Cruise, Kubrick and director of photography Larry Smith (right) during the filming of Eyes Wide Shut.
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