Stanley Kubrick

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q2001: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: One-Eyed Jacks (1961); A Clockwork Orange (1971); Network (1976); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001); Wild Hogs (2007); Room 237 (2012); (Rewatchables count); Dispatches (book); Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film); Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film); Napoleon (unmade Kubrick film); Napoleon (unmade Kubrick project); Napoleon (unmade); Stanley Kubrick's Boxes; The Aryan Papers (unmade); The Authentic Death of Henry Jones; no film named. Count them as director (17 films), writer (13 films), producer (2 films), cinematographer (5 films), craft (2 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): 6 lines

  1. lineage (sequel) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they were tied to as named as 2001 sequel's original director: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels.
    “Obviously, the sequel exists.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they were tied to as named as 2001 sequel's original director: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 tries to answer Kubrick's questions and is more loyal to Arthur C. Clarke's ideas.
    “it's much more... As I remember loyal to Arthur C. Clark's science fiction ideas”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:26:18 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (self-reference) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they were tied to as next miniseries subject: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). The record store scene shows the 2001 soundtrack, which the speakers read as Kubrick nodding at his own movie.
    “but he's kind of like being like, guys, I made that movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:44:54 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they were tied to as named as 2001 sequel's original director: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to.
    “Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (sequel) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they were tied to as named as 2001 sequel's original director: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout.
    “And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. craft (borrowed music) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they were tied to as named as 2001 sequel's original director: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). The only thing 2010 borrows from 2001, apart from plotting, is the music, including the Zarathustra drop at the end.
    “Yeah, is the music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

2010: Odyssey Two (novel) (1982): 3 lines

  1. unmapped (changes from the book) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they were tied to as named as 2001 sequel's original director: 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the maker said so). Hyams demanded changes to play up US-Soviet politics, which the novel does not treat as a source of tension.
    “Two, there's changes I want to make to play up the politics of the movie because in the novel, the U.S. Soviet thing is not like a source of tension.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:21:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (changed character nationality) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they were tied to as named as 2001 sequel's original director: 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the maker said so). Dr. Chandra is Indian in the book; the film made him American, per Balaban.
    “Bob Balaban said they changed his nationalities from Indian to American because they thought it would be confusing to have another nationality who've got the Russians and the Americans up there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (adaptation) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they were tied to as named as 2001 sequel's original director: 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel.
    “Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Anthony Burgess: 2 lines

  1. unmapped (book vs film) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they were tied to as next miniseries subject: Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). Reading the novel again, the speaker finds it almost the same as the film, dialogue and all.
    “The dialogue is, it's just unbelievable how little he changed”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:17:42 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (adaptation) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they were tied to as next miniseries subject: Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little.
    “Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Stanley Kubrick: 2 lines, within their own work

  1. unmapped (developed from unmade screenplay) · through A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which they were tied to as director (A.I. what-if; homage in Ready Player One): Stanley Kubrick ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). A.I. is the Kubrick screenplay that Spielberg made.
    “AI is the is the cubic screenplay that Spielberg made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:34:08 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. career (inherited project) · through A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which they were tied to as director (A.I. what-if; homage in Ready Player One): Stanley Kubrick ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). The speaker wonders whether Spielberg would mind A.I. being called half Kubrick's movie.
    “would he be offended in that kind of way of like, that's half Stanley's movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:13:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): 1 line

  1. unmapped (tip of the hat) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they were tied to as named as 2001 sequel's original director: Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). Casting Balaban reads as a nod to Close Encounters; the speaker finds 2010 more in its shadow than 2001's.
    “And the Balaban casting feels like a real tip of the hat to that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Douglas Trumbull: 1 line

  1. craft (effects constraint led to music choice) · them, directly: Douglas Trumbull ⇒ Stanley Kubrick (the host's read). Because Trumbull's effects needed slow movement, Kubrick fell for the waltz pace of The Blue Danube.
    “So that's why Stanley Kubrick starts falling in love with the blue Danube”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:34:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

James B. Harris: 1 line

  1. unmapped (set the template) · them, directly: James B. Harris ⇒ Stanley Kubrick (the host's read). Harris's hands-off, money-handled arrangement sets the dynamic Kubrick later imposes on every studio.
    “creates the dynamic that Kubrick then extends to the studios with every other picture he makes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:17:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park (1993): 1 line

  1. unmapped (technology showed it was possible) · through A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which they were tied to as director (A.I. what-if; homage in Ready Player One): Jurassic Park ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). The speaker says Kubrick, who first asked Spielberg to build a robot, saw Jurassic Park and reconsidered.
    “And then he sees Jurassic Park and he's once again like, well, wait a second.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Lionel Trilling: 1 line

  1. lineage (critical source) · them, directly: Lionel Trilling ⇒ Stanley Kubrick (the maker said so: Kubrick quotes read aloud from the host's dossier (interview not named)). Kubrick points to Trilling's piece calling Lolita the first great love story of the 20th century to explain his reading.
    “He points to a Lionel Trilling piece that called it the great 1st great love story of the 20th century”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:40:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Lon Chaney: 1 line

  1. unmapped (direction note) · them, directly: Lon Chaney ⇒ Stanley Kubrick (the maker said so: a Vincent D'Onofrio quote the speaker reads). Kubrick told D'Onofrio before a scene to be Lon Chaney big, as relayed in a D'Onofrio quote.
    “Apparently, before one scene, Kubrick said, I want you to be big. Lon Cheney big.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:30:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Pinocchio: 1 line

  1. unmapped (template) · through A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which they were tied to as director (A.I. what-if; homage in Ready Player One): Pinocchio ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the maker said so: Kubrick to the short story writer (Brian Aldiss), as the speaker tells it). Kubrick told the short story writer he wanted to combine the story with Pinocchio, per the speaker.
    “he was like, I want to take your story and combine it with Pinocchio.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:30:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Stephen King: 1 line

  1. contrast (contrast) · them, directly: Stephen King ⇒ Stanley Kubrick (the host's read). King felt Kubrick's film ripped the guts out of his story; the speaker doesn't blame him though Kubrick's film is its own great thing.
    “that like King sort of like it sort of ripped the guts out of the story that he was telling, which he's not wrong.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:47:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Authentic Death of Henry Jones: 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (became) · through One-Eyed Jacks (1961), which they were tied to as director who left the project to make Lolita: The Authentic Death of Henry Jones ⇒ One-Eyed Jacks (the host's read). The Brando-Kubrick-Peckinpah western project is what became One-Eyed Jacks, which Brando directed himself.
    “This movie, of course, is one-eyed. Jax, the movie that Brando was working on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:44:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through One-Eyed Jacks (1961), which they were tied to as director who left the project to make Lolita: The Killing ⇒ One-Eyed Jacks (the host's read). Brando had seen The Killing and Paths of Glory and wanted Kubrick to direct his western.
    “Marlon Brando had seen the killing and had seen paths of glory and thought Kubrick was great.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:39:11 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

War and Peace: 1 line

  1. unmapped (scale envy) · through Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film), which they were tied to as attached director of an unmade film: War and Peace ⇒ Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film) (the host's read). Kubrick is imagined looking at Bondarchuk's War and Peace and thinking he could stage battles like that.
    “He's just looking at that and being like, I could do this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:12:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. unmapped (developed from unmade screenplay) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). A.I. is the Kubrick screenplay that Spielberg made.
    “AI is the is the cubic screenplay that Spielberg made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:34:08 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. career (inherited project) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). The speaker wonders whether Spielberg would mind A.I. being called half Kubrick's movie.
    “would he be offended in that kind of way of like, that's half Stanley's movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:13:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mike Flanagan: 2 lines

  1. unmapped (learned sustained tension) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Mike Flanagan (the maker said so: a Flanagan quote the host reads from the research dossier). Flanagan, quoted from the hosts' dossier, says he learned sustaining tension over jump scares from Kubrick.
    “I'm much more interested in sustaining tension, which I learned from Mr. Stanley Cooper.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:13:41 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (style borrowed) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Mike Flanagan (the host's read). Flanagan replicates the Kubrick style in Doctor Sleep without it feeling like pastiche.
    “He replicates the Kubrick style incredibly well in that movie without it feeling like force pastiche.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Blue Movie (Terry Southern novel): 1 line

  1. unmapped (roman a clef) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Blue Movie (Terry Southern novel) (the host's read). Southern's novel Blue Movie is the book of a writer who worked with Kubrick.
    “there's these books like Terry Southern's blue movie where people are like, I worked with Kubrick.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:15:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)

Full Metal Jacket (1987): 1 line

  1. career (career sequence) · through Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film), which they were tied to as attached director of an unmade film: Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick failing to crack a Holocaust movie, as Barry Lyndon came out of Napoleon.
    “it does feel similar to Full Metal Jacket coming out of him trying to make a Holocaust movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:23:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Her Smell (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they were tied to as next miniseries subject: A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode). The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell.
    “This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80 sure it was them)

Old Dogs (2009): 1 line

  1. career (career) · through Wild Hogs (2007), which they were tied to as signed to direct per the joke (hogbots): Wild Hogs ⇒ Old Dogs (the host's read). Wild Hogs was a huge 2007 hit, which is how Becker came to have the freedom to make Old Dogs.
    “Becker has what you could perhaps call a blank check to make whatever crazy passion projects he wants.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:10:28 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)

One-Eyed Jacks (1961): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (became) · through The Authentic Death of Henry Jones, which they were tied to as co-writer with Brando; attached to direct, left (became One-Eyed Jacks): The Authentic Death of Henry Jones ⇒ One-Eyed Jacks (the host's read). The Brando-Kubrick-Peckinpah western project is what became One-Eyed Jacks, which Brando directed himself.
    “This movie, of course, is one-eyed. Jax, the movie that Brando was working on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:44:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Ready Player One: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read). The film contains a deeper homage to Kubrick, maybe its best part.
    “There is a much deeper and fascinating homage to Stanley Cooper.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Steven Spielberg: 1 line

  1. career (unmade project taken up) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Steven Spielberg (the host's read). Kubrick could not make A.I. because technology was not ready; Spielberg eventually did.
    “which obviously Steven Spielberg eventually makes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:35:14 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they were tied to as next miniseries subject: A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read). The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs.
    “all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line

  1. unmapped (drew on his chess life) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ The Killing (the host's read). The speaker says the movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in several ways.
    “I love how much this movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in multiple ways.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:09:39 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

The Simpsons (TV): 1 line

  1. unmapped (parodied) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they were tied to as next miniseries subject: A Clockwork Orange ⇒ The Simpsons (TV) (the host's read). The Simpsons reference this film a lot.
    “But the Simpsons reference is clockwork orange. a lot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:29:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

blank check directors: 1 line

  1. unmapped (template) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ blank check directors (the host's read). Kubrick's genre-by-genre career is a template many Blank Check directors follow.
    “And it's also the thing that like he has this template that I think a lot of blank check directors follow”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:10:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (122) everyone in directing

Other (26) everyone in other

Writing (13) everyone in writing

Photography (6) everyone in photography

Craft (3) everyone in craft

Producing (2) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

career (7)

  1. career (career): The Killing → Stanley Kubrick. The Killing let Kubrick leap from B-picture craftsman to the most significant film artist of his time.
    “the movie that allowed Kubrick to take the leap from very crafty photographer trying to make his way doing B pictures”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): James Cameron → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick, Blank Check's current series, is most like Cameron in not missing when he gets going.
    “Who's more similar to Cameron and like when he gets going, he pretty much doesn't miss.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:06:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (inherited project): Stanley Kubrick → A.I. Artificial Intelligence. The speaker wonders whether Spielberg would mind A.I. being called half Kubrick's movie.
    “would he be offended in that kind of way of like, that's half Stanley's movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:13:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. career (unmade project taken up): Stanley Kubrick → Steven Spielberg. Kubrick could not make A.I. because technology was not ready; Spielberg eventually did.
    “which obviously Steven Spielberg eventually makes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:35:14 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. career (offered a project): Stanley Kubrick → Anthony Burgess. While working on this film Kubrick asked Burgess to take a swing at Napoleon.
    “He even like said to Anthony Burgess like, hey, do you want like to take a swing at Napoleon?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. career (career parallel): John Frankenheimer → Stanley Kubrick. Frankenheimer's 1962 to 1966 run is compared to Kubrick trying a different genre each time.
    “this movie comes in the middle of the most underrated five-year run in any American filmmaker's history, which is John Frankenheimer from 1962 to 1966”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:02:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Kirk Douglas → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick assumed what a Kirk Douglas movie should be; Douglas wanted to use his stardom to make other kinds of movies.
    “And Kirk Douglas was like, I don't want to make Kirk Douglas movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:42:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast): Stanley Kubrick → Eyes Wide Shut. Guerrilla street shooting in Killer's Kiss versus building his own New York for his last film.
    “just funny thing to contrast with his career ending with eyes wide shut where he's like, I'm going to fucking make my own New York City.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:04:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Mel Brooks → Stanley Kubrick. Brooks and Kubrick are opposite in vibe, so Brooks may do better against Kubrick than Welles would.
    “Brooks and Kubrick will be at such opposite ends in terms of vibe, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:29:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Stephen King → Stanley Kubrick. King felt Kubrick's film ripped the guts out of his story; the speaker doesn't blame him though Kubrick's film is its own great thing.
    “that like King sort of like it sort of ripped the guts out of the story that he was telling, which he's not wrong.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:47:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (6)

  1. craft (style comparison): Tár → Stanley Kubrick. Sean says Tar is perceived as having Kubrickian coldness, which makes it less inviting at the box office.
    “it at least is perceived as having that Kubrickian coldness, which I think is not very inviting as a movie going experience.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:16:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Full Metal Jacket → Stanley Kubrick. The boot-camp first hour is cited as one of the great first halves of any movie; the Vietnam second half is very good with Kubrick hallmarks.
    “that 1st hour is funny, terrifying, emotionally wrenching.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:46:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Eyes Wide Shut → Stanley Kubrick. The set would mean a long shoot with a great filmmaker, two stars in an actual marriage and untold stories.
    “obviously you've got one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, 2 of our favorite stars in the midst of a marriage and a film about the potential dissolution of a marriage”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:11:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. craft (style borrowed): Stanley Kubrick → Mike Flanagan. Flanagan replicates the Kubrick style in Doctor Sleep without it feeling like pastiche.
    “He replicates the Kubrick style incredibly well in that movie without it feeling like force pastiche.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. craft (effects constraint led to music choice): Douglas Trumbull → Stanley Kubrick. Because Trumbull's effects needed slow movement, Kubrick fell for the waltz pace of The Blue Danube.
    “So that's why Stanley Kubrick starts falling in love with the blue Danube”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:34:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Stanley Kubrick. Same comparison: perfectionist takes.
    “it's in it, like, to a David Fincher Kubrick degree.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (5)

  1. industry (industry): Stanley Kubrick → John Hughes. Kubrick loved John Hughes movies, which is why he wanted Hall.
    “So Stanley Kubrick, for some reason, love John Hughes movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:21:53 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Wes Anderson → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick never winning an Oscar is why not winning feels cool.
    “Stanley Kubrick never won.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:41:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. industry (Oscar credit): Stanley Kubrick → Douglas Trumbull. The special-effects Oscar went to Kubrick rather than Trumbull.
    “The Oscars weirdly given to Kubrick and not to Trumbull.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:15:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. industry (business deal): Stanley Kubrick → Kirk Douglas. Kubrick had a five-picture deal with Kirk Douglas; only two got made before Douglas released him, largely because Douglas wanted nothing to do with Lolita.
    “He's also got this 5 picture deal with Kirk Douglas, 2 movies, end up getting done before Kirk Douglas releases him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:39:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): Stanley Kubrick → James Cameron. Kubrick, like Cameron, would rather lose a film than lose control of how he makes it.
    “It's it's sort of the Cameron thing of like, what's a worse fate for him than not being able to make a movie is not being able to make a movie the way he wants to.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:44:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (9)

  1. lineage (lineage): Ready Player One → Stanley Kubrick. The film contains a deeper homage to Kubrick, maybe its best part.
    “There is a much deeper and fascinating homage to Stanley Cooper.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): James Gray → Stanley Kubrick. Gray says if Fellini and Kubrick got slaughtered for it, he must readjust his expectations.
    “well, if it happens to someone as great as Fellini or Stanley Kubrick,”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture (Ep. 9) · 0:17:33 · James Gray (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (unmade adaptation): Stanley Kubrick → Vanity Fair. Kubrick said he considered filming Vanity Fair but could not compress it, so he took Barry Lyndon.
    “He had said at one point he considered turning Vanity Fair into a film, but he couldn't figure out how to compress it into a feature length, because it's so sprawling.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:22:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (admired source): Stanley Kubrick → Childhood's End (novel). Kubrick read and liked Clarke's Childhood's End but someone else had the rights.
    “he reads childhood's end, he likes it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:50:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (critical source): Lionel Trilling → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick points to Trilling's piece calling Lolita the first great love story of the 20th century to explain his reading.
    “He points to a Lionel Trilling piece that called it the great 1st great love story of the 20th century”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:40:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (romantic lineage): Stanley Kubrick → Lolita. Kubrick (per the dossier) places Lolita in the lineage of illicit love stories like Romeo and Juliet.
    “If you consider Romeo and Juliet, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, the red and the black.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:41:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (lineage): Stanley Kubrick → Fear and Desire. Kubrick's four explicit war movies are Strangelove, Fear and Desire, Full Metal Jacket and Paths of Glory.
    “This strange love, fear and desire, and full metal jacket.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:23:34 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): Stanley Kubrick → Killer's Kiss. Early films like Killer's Kiss and Fear and Desire are seen as the developmental stage.
    “the sort of fear and desire, killer's kiss, the killing run feels like, well, that's the developmental.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:41:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Stanley Kubrick → The Killing. The Killing is where Kubrick first has a real grasp of the language; Paths of Glory sits after it.
    “The killing is when he finally has sort of like a real grasp on the language.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:41:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (15)

  1. people (auteur credit): Eyes Wide Shut → Stanley Kubrick. Eyes Wide Shut's success owes to it being a Kubrick film and playing with Cruise-Kidman.
    “such a huge part of that movie's success, in addition to it being a Kubrick film”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:31:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting first choice): Stanley Kubrick → Anthony Michael Hall. Kubrick wanted Hall for Joker after seeing Sixteen Candles; eight months of talks broke down.
    “He saw 16 candles. He was like this guy's an incredible actor.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:44:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. people (co-writer): Stanley Kubrick → Diane Johnson. Kubrick co-wrote the script with the novelist Diane Johnson.
    “obviously he co-wrote this movie with Diane Johnson”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:28:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. people (shared crew): John Alcott → Stanley Kubrick. Alcott shot The Shining and also worked on other Kubrick films.
    “John Alcott's the DP of this movie, but, um, who works on other cubrics.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:04:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. people (casting research): Stanley Kubrick → Stanley Donen. Kubrick phoned Donen, who knew Berenson, and quizzed him before offering her the part.
    “And he called Stanley Donan, I guess who knew her, and basically grilled Stanley Donan on everything about her.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:14:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. people (director asks about a shot): Stanley Kubrick → Outland. On his call with Hyams, Kubrick's first question was how Hyams did a certain shot in Outland.
    “and immediately asks him how he did a certain shot in Outland.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:21:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. people (solo writer-director): Steven Spielberg → Stanley Kubrick. Written and directed by is rare for Kubrick; A.I. was the same for Spielberg later.
    “It is, the rare written and directed by, yeah, much like AI later for Spielberg.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:23:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. people (collaboration): Stanley Kubrick → Arthur C. Clarke. Kubrick opened by letter asking Clarke about doing the proverbial really good science fiction movie together.
    “His letter is, I've wanted to discuss with you the possibility of doing the proverbial really good science fiction movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:50:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. people (collaborator): Peter Sellers → Stanley Kubrick. Sellers is called a Kubrick collaborator and tied to Being There.
    “Sellers, of course, has a tremendous Kuber connection.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:37:20 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. people (unrealized collaboration): Paddy Chayefsky → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick was one of only three people who met to direct Network, but he and Chayefsky never clicked.
    “Kubrick was like one of only 3 people who even met to direct that movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:31:34 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  11. people (collaborator warmth): Stanley Kubrick → David Fincher. Speaker says the warmth of Kubrick's collaborators reminds him of Fincher's collaborators.
    “And it really does remind me of Fincher.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:07:10 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  12. people (director comparison): Stanley Kubrick → Alfred Hitchcock. Kubrick is compared to Hitchcock on precision of vision, but Kubrick sought discovery while Hitchcock had the movie in his head.
    “he's compared so much to Hitchcock and the precision of the vision and everything like that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:08:28 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  13. people (people): Timothy Carey → Stanley Kubrick. Paths of Glory was Kubrick and Carey's second film together and their last.
    “this is Kubrick and Tim Carey's 2nd movie together and very much, uh, their last.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:25:20 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. people (collaboration conflict): Stanley Kubrick → Lucien Ballard. Kubrick and Ballard fought over lenses and the racetrack footage; Kubrick won the wide lens fight.
    “so much of the stuff from the set of this movie is him fighting with Lucien Ballard over lens sizes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:21:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. people (method vs auteur): Daniel Day-Lewis → Stanley Kubrick. Patton sets nice Day-Lewis against Kubrick as the two examples people over-imitate.
    “Kubrick and Daniel De Lewis loom too large as those 2 examples.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:27:02 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Harold Becker → Stanley Kubrick. Becker now has as many movies on The Rewatchables as Stanley Kubrick.
    “Harold Becker now has the same number of movies on the rewatchables is Stanley Kubrick.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (6)

  1. theme (thematic): Martin Scorsese → Stanley Kubrick. The speaker says Kubrick's films are all about the fight between humanity's consciousness and animal instinct, which Raging Bull also tackles.
    “which is the fight between the consciousness, uh, of humanity and the subconscious nature of animal instinct, and that that inherent battle.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:30:14 · David Krumholtz (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. theme (same location instruction): Stanley Kubrick → Ken Adam. Kubrick told Ken Adam to find every location within 20 miles of his home, as on Barry Lyndon.
    “Which was basically the same thing he told him for Barry Lyndon”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:39:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. theme (comparison): Stanley Kubrick → Wes Anderson. Kubrick's chaotic dinner parties are contrasted with lavish Wes Anderson restaurant dinners.
    “but they weren't these like sort of lavish like Wes Anderson eating at the finest restaurant dinner parties.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:03:04 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. theme (comparison): Stanley Kubrick → David Fincher. Speakers compare Kubrick and Fincher on set intensity and discipline.
    “I think it's sort of similar, though, with Kubrick and Fincher.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:37:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. theme (comparison): Stanley Kubrick → Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson offered as today's comparison for Kubrick's control and exactness.
    “you want to compare him to someone like Wes Anderson, who is certainly one of the most controlled directors working today.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:38:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. theme (comparison): Stanley Kubrick → Alfred Hitchcock. Kubrick or Hitchcock as the most legendary director.
    “It's either him or Hitchcock is like the most sort of like legendary director of all time, I guess.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:15:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (39)

  1. unmapped (technical rigor): Buster Keaton → Stanley Kubrick. Keaton is highly technical, mechanical and formal in framing, which makes him a little Kubrickian.
    “if you'll allow me, please, I think he's a little Kubrickian.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:50:07 · James Urbaniak (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (period-accuracy obsession): The General → Stanley Kubrick. Keaton's obsessive uniform and detail accuracy on The General was Kubrickian, a push as a director beyond comedy.
    “he was so obsessed with like fucking, you brought it up, James, but like Kubrickian, every fucking uniform has to be period accurate.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:59:49 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (slow vs fast): Martin Scorsese → Stanley Kubrick. Hosts wish great directors like Scorsese and Coogler would bang out quick movies like Soderbergh; Kubrick is cited as another who took his time.
    “So Stan Kubrick is another one.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (temperament): Yorgos Lanthimos → Stanley Kubrick. Sean calls Lanthimos a 'we are all alone' filmmaker in the Kubrick mold, at least until now.
    “he is like a Kubrickian, we are all alone kind of filmmaker.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:21:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (many takes): David Fincher → Stanley Kubrick. Fincher's 100 takes are compared to Kubrick as a search for something that surprises the director, not a fixed target.
    “It's sort of, much like we talked about, Kubrick, where it's like, he's not doing 100 takes looking for them to achieve a thing he's waiting for.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 2:35:26 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (worked with): R. Lee Ermey → Stanley Kubrick. Ermey worked with Kubrick, even more famously exacting than Fincher, yet trashed Fincher as controlling.
    “But also he worked with Stanley Kubrick, who I consider even more famously exacting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:55:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (mentorship): Todd Field → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick saw Field's potential as a director and let him into the process more, per the speaker.
    “recognized that he had potential as a director that his interests are going that way and brought him into the process a little more”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:26:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (learned sustained tension): Stanley Kubrick → Mike Flanagan. Flanagan, quoted from the hosts' dossier, says he learned sustaining tension over jump scares from Kubrick.
    “I'm much more interested in sustaining tension, which I learned from Mr. Stanley Cooper.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:13:41 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (wanted to adapt): Dispatches (book) → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick also wanted to adapt Herr's Dispatches, which has no narrative.
    “And that's like another thing that Kubrick wanted to adapt.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:37:34 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (assistant): Leon Vitali → Stanley Kubrick. Vitali, Barry Lyndon's stepson, gave up acting to be Kubrick's executive assistant.
    “Who plays like Barry Lyndon's stepson and was like a young actor who then gave up his entire acting career to be Stanley Kubrick's executive assistant for the rest of his life”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:51:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (direction note): Lon Chaney → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick told D'Onofrio before a scene to be Lon Chaney big, as relayed in a D'Onofrio quote.
    “Apparently, before one scene, Kubrick said, I want you to be big. Lon Cheney big.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:30:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (regular hairdresser): Leonard Lewis → Stanley Kubrick. Leonard always did Kubrick's hair credits, which is why Hair by Leonard shows on many of his films.
    “His name is Leonard Lewis. He was the world's first celebrity hairdresser.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:23:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (talked out of it): Paddy Chayefsky → Stanley Kubrick. Chayefsky eventually told Kubrick he should not direct Network because they were both control freaks.
    “Cheevsky eventually is like, you shouldn't do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:03:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (many takes): David Fincher → Stanley Kubrick. Fincher describes his many takes as getting preconceptions out of the actors, as speakers compare to Kubrick.
    “That's the way Fincher talks about it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:12:09 · Tim Simons (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. unmapped (friends): Stanley Kubrick → Steven Spielberg. Kubrick and Spielberg were very close.
    “obviously Kubrick and Spielberg very close”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:26:31 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (blessing and advice): Stanley Kubrick → Peter Hyams. Kubrick approved the sequel and told Hyams to make it his own film, not Kubrick's.
    “His big piece of advice was just make it your own film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:22:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. unmapped (roman a clef): Stanley Kubrick → Blue Movie (Terry Southern novel). Southern's novel Blue Movie is the book of a writer who worked with Kubrick.
    “there's these books like Terry Southern's blue movie where people are like, I worked with Kubrick.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:15:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (grudge): Anthony Burgess → Stanley Kubrick. Writers Kubrick adapted ended up enraged and obsessed with him, as Burgess did on stage.
    “whenever he adapted someone's work, they sort of were like simultaneously enraged and obsessed with him in the wake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:16:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (admired film): Stanley Kubrick → Ikarie XB-1. Kubrick admired the Czech film Ikarie XB-1 among the science fiction films he screened.
    “He admired the Czech film Ickery XB1, which people have got to see.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:51:34 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. unmapped (hiring): Stanley Kubrick → Douglas Trumbull. Kubrick found Trumbull because of his work at the World's Fair.
    “And Kubrick found Trumbull, I believe, because he had done stuff at the World's Fair.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:16:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. unmapped (producing partners): James B. Harris → Stanley Kubrick. Harris and Kubrick are named as a producing pair (transcribed as 'Harrison Kubrick').
    “Harrison Kubrick, speaking of all the adaptation stuff that you were talking about.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:58:56 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  22. unmapped (worked together): Laurence Olivier → Stanley Kubrick. Olivier is the obvious Humbert choice, especially since Kubrick had just directed him in Spartacus.
    “I mean, especially just coming off of Spartacus and Kubrick getting that kind of performance out of him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:12:59 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  23. unmapped (long takes): Stanley Kubrick → Alfred Hitchcock. Kubrick's ten-minute takes are tied to the early-60s moment when Hitchcock was pushing that too.
    “which I feel like is a thing in the early six, because that's when Hitchcock's fucking with that the most, too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:27:57 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  24. unmapped (regret): Stanley Kubrick → Lolita. Kubrick later said that had he known how severe the limits would be he probably would not have made it.
    “Kubrick later finally just comes out and says it and says, if I'd realized how severe limitations would be, I probably just wouldn't have made it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:43:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  25. unmapped (replaced by): Anthony Mann → Stanley Kubrick. Douglas brought in Kubrick after firing Anthony Mann.
    “Douglas brings him in after firing the original Anthony Mann or whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:27:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. unmapped (developed from unmade screenplay): Stanley Kubrick → A.I. Artificial Intelligence. A.I. is the Kubrick screenplay that Spielberg made.
    “AI is the is the cubic screenplay that Spielberg made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:34:08 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  27. unmapped (drew on his chess life): Stanley Kubrick → The Killing. The speaker says the movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in several ways.
    “I love how much this movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in multiple ways.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:09:39 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  28. unmapped (introduction): Alexander Singer → Stanley Kubrick. Singer introduced Harris to Kubrick.
    “Alexander Singer is a guy he knows who introduces him to Stanley Kubrick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:11:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. unmapped (set the template): James B. Harris → Stanley Kubrick. Harris's hands-off, money-handled arrangement sets the dynamic Kubrick later imposes on every studio.
    “creates the dynamic that Kubrick then extends to the studios with every other picture he makes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:17:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. unmapped (admired): Albert Brooks → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick reportedly wanted Brooks's notes on Modern Romance, which captured jealousy.
    “I need you Albert Brooks to give me Stanley Kubrick notes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:16:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  31. unmapped (admired): Steve Martin → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick reportedly wrote Steve Martin asking for notes on The Jerk.
    “Kubrick was like sending letters to Steve Martin about the jerk”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:16:49 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. unmapped (cruel humor): Coen Brothers → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick's humor and the Coens' are both cruel to their characters.
    “they are very cruel to their protagonists in their films.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:17:26 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. unmapped (template): Stanley Kubrick → blank check directors. Kubrick's genre-by-genre career is a template many Blank Check directors follow.
    “And it's also the thing that like he has this template that I think a lot of blank check directors follow”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:10:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  34. unmapped (admired by): Stanley Kubrick → All That Jazz. Kubrick is said to have loved All That Jazz and Modern Romance.
    “Like, oh, he loved all that jazz and modern romance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:17:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  35. unmapped (married): Stanley Kubrick → Ruth Sobotka. Ruth Sobotka, a dancer, is Kubrick's second wife and appears in Killer's Kiss.
    “His 2nd wife is Ruth Sabatka, a dancer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:25:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  36. unmapped (similar trajectory): Stanley Kubrick → Christopher Nolan. Self-taught path from watching movies to directing, as Nolan did.
    “Like, I mean, Nolan sort of has a similar trajectory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:27:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  37. unmapped (devoted reader): Stanley Kubrick → Vsevolod Pudovkin. Kubrick obsessed over Eisenstein and Pudovkin, especially Pudovkin's book Film Technique.
    “He's obsessed with Sergei Eisenstein and Bezvelod Pudovkin, the 2nd Pudovkin, especially, who wrote a book called The Film Technique.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:28:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  38. unmapped (disowned): Fear and Desire → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick was embarrassed by the film; the host reads his quote.
    “It's not a film I remember with any pride, he says.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:44:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  39. unmapped (color): The Seafarers → Stanley Kubrick. The Seafarers was Kubrick's first color work, not repeated until Spartacus.
    “It's also the 1st time he shoots in color for the 1st time and he won't do it again until Spartacus.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:04:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  1. verdict (verdict): Eyes Wide Shut → Stanley Kubrick. A masterpiece, Kubrick's Christmas movie, and an automatic Hall of Fame inclusion.
    “Obviously, a masterpiece, Stanley Kubrick's Christmas movie”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:07:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Stanley Kubrick → Roger Ebert. Ebert argued Paths of Glory might be Kubrick's best film.
    “I think Ebert even argued it was perhaps his best film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:42:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Stanley Kubrick → Fritz Lang. The speaker predicts Kubrick will beat Lang despite Lang's run of surprises.
    “I think Kubrick probably bodies laying as much as Lang has surprised us every single matchup.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:29:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (5)

  1. what-if (what-if): Napoleon (unmade Kubrick film) → Stanley Kubrick. Napoleon is frequently cited as the greatest unmade movie; the book shows the work Kubrick put in.
    “Napoleon is like, is frequently cited as the greatest unmade movie ever”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): A.I. Artificial Intelligence → Stanley Kubrick. A.I. would have been darker if it were a Kubrick film.
    “if it were a Kubrick movie, it would have been even more dark.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:26:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Stanley Kubrick → Network. Kubrick was approached to direct Network, which would have been an interesting what-if.
    “To direct network, which is an interesting what if?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:00:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if swap): Sidney Lumet → Stanley Kubrick. Speaker finds it fascinating to imagine Lumet directing Strangelove and Kubrick directing Fail-Safe.
    “it's really, really fascinating to imagine a world in which these 2 guys like flipped these movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:51:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (what-if): I Love Melvin → Stanley Kubrick. A Look photographer lead in I Love Melvin: the speaker imagines Kubrick seeing it.
    “I think Kubrick saw this and was like, excuse me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:02:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Gray opens with Kubrick's line that choosing a film is like asking why you married your wife.
    “it's a little bit like, you know, uh, asking why you married your wife”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture (Ep. 9) · 0:00:53 · James Gray (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick wouldn't get on a plane, so second-unit crews shot the New York establishing shots without him.
    “you guys go shoot 2nd unit establishing shots in New York City without me. I cannot be bothered to get on a plane.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:25:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick was torturing himself over the shoes a character wears, which the speakers jokingly say makes him the inventor of Uggs.
    “You know that he was like torturing himself about the UGs and he made a conscious choice.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:34:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick had his secretary bring him stacks of bestselling horror novels and she heard a book hit the wall every ten minutes until the day she heard nothing for two hours.
    “every 10 minutes she'd hear a book hit the wall.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:43:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: On the phone, Kubrick told King the idea of a ghost is optimistic because it presupposes an afterlife, and answered King's question about hell with a flat denial.
    “I don't believe in hell.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:45:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: To plan the costumes and sets Kubrick bought art books and tore pages out of them, feeling guilty about it.
    “He said that, quote, he had to very guiltily tear up a lot of beautiful art books.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:24:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's own casting justification for O'Neal is a backhanded compliment: he was confident O'Neal could act better than his earlier films let him.
    “Kubrick's Kubrick's quote here is he looked right and I was confident he possessed much greater acting ability than he'd been allowed to show in any of the films he'd previously done.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:42:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's first question to Hyams on the phone was how Hyams did a shot in Outland, an hour into movie talk before the sequel was even addressed.
    “and immediately asks him how he did a certain shot in Outland.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:21:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's advice to Hyams was to make it his own film.
    “His big piece of advice was just make it your own film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:22:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's box maker says he sent a 40-page document and months went into the micron of card for a perfect lid.
    “And he's just like, Stanley came to us with a 40 page document.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:03:55 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: In the Ciment book Kubrick says on the opening zoom: save cinematic ideas until you have rehearsed the scene in the place.
    “It's important to save your cinematic ideas until you have rehearsed the scene in the actual place you're going to film it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:32:55 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick shot the handheld shots himself in all his movies, which the speaker calls an underanalyzed strength.
    “That he did all the handheld stuff himself.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:57:52 · Alex Ross Perry (0.70 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's daughter says her father wanted to be a short-order cook, which fits his chaotic hosted dinners.
    “I think my father always had this secret dream of being like a short order cook.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:03:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick on why he did not want drugs to be the source of the film, as read from the dossier.
    “I think that the illusion of oneness with the universe and absorption with the significance of every object in your environment and the pervasive aura of peace and contentment is not the ideal state for an artist.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:16:29 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick always said that if he had known how hard Lolita would be under the Hays Code he would not have made it.
    “Kubrick always said, if he knew how difficult it was going to be to make this movie under the Hayes code, he wouldn't have made it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:18:27 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Cinematographer kicks a light into the scene to ask if there is enough; Kubrick says now there is too much.
    “Kubrick looks at it and looks back at him and he says, now there's too much light.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:53:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: On the battlefield, extras playing dead were numbered, directed by number, and the numbers taken away before the shot.
    “he would call out like, hey, 76, like be more dead or whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:01:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Universal asked for 30 camera setups a day; Kubrick offered two; they landed on eight.
    “And Kubrick was like, okay, I'm going to give you two.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: In contemporary press Kubrick said shooting a movie is a terrible environment for an artist.
    “shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:22:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Arliss Howard recalls Kubrick astonished that so many people had opinions about Spartacus.
    “Said when he did Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick said he was astonished at how many people were allowed to have opinions on the content of the movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:25:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: The research dossier's theory: the endless takes were waiting to be surprised, not to see what was in his head.
    “It sounded so much more that the thing he was waiting for was for something to surprise him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:29:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's name is said Kubrick in America; reportedly he let people in England go on saying it the English way.
    “And then when he went to England, people assumed it was cubric and he didn't correct them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:13:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Graduated Taft High with a 67 average; no college would take him.
    “eventually ends up at Taft High School in the Bronx with a 60, graduates with a 67 average, which I guess is bad.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:18:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: At double features he read his paper by whatever light he could find while actors talked, rustling it at the audience.
    “If actors started to talk too much, he would read his paper by whatever light he could find until they stopped talking, very annoying audience members.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: His uncle wanted a percentage of his whole career; Kubrick refused, then caved a month later for one film.
    “And Kubrick, stubborn fuck that he was, was like, I'm not fucking signing right with my career.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:33:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)