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The Shining at 40: will we ever fully understand what it all means?

Stanley Kubrick’s terrifying Stephen King adaptation is as chilly and confounding as ever, a puzzle that may never be solvedEight years ago, the Rodney Ascher documentary Room 237 reignited discussion...

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Claes Bang: 'I've been watching a great Danish show … what was it called?'

The Dracula star talks about filming on Zoom, if he could play Bond and the only Kubrick film he’s never seenRead all the other Lockdown watch choicesRead all the What I’m really watching choicesRead...

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From Platoon to Winter Soldier: 10 of the best Vietnam war films

As Spike Lee releases new war drama Da 5 Bloods, we look back at the ways cinema has represented the 20-year conflict Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, which is released on Netflix on 12 June, is the newest...

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Malcolm McDowell: 'I have no memory of doing most of my films'

He was once the embodiment of youthful rage and rebellion. Now, the Clockwork Orange star is reconciled to a life of golf, gangster flicks and the odd glimpse of geniusMalcolm McDowell was the insolent...

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The top 10 long-awaited films –  ranked!

Following substantial delays, anticipation is sky-high for Tenet and the new Bond, No Time to Die. But from Eraserhead to The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, plenty of movies have made their audiences wait...

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Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas wanted Doctor Zhivago movie rights

Director wrote to Boris Pasternak in late 1950s, previously unpublished material revealsIt is one of the greatest British films of all time, directed in 1965 by David Lean with an A-list cast that...

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Space oddity: song rejected by Kubrick for 2001 released after 52 years

Stanley Kubrick asked a young publicist to write a track for his movie, but didn’t use it. Now we can all hear itStanley Kubrick’s enigmatic film 2001: A Space Odyssey has posed a puzzle from the...

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AI at 20: Spielberg’s misunderstood epic remains his darkest movie yet

The odd combination of Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg brings a unique quality to this heartbreaking story of a robot in search of love“I thought this would be hard for you to understand. You were...

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A Clockwork Orange at 50: Stanley Kubrick’s biggest, boldest provocation

The controversial 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s button-pushing novel remains both utterly repellent and utterly compellingThroughout his career, Stanley Kubrick never cared much about...

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Douglas Trumbull obituary

Visual effects artist and director known for his innovative work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade RunnerAsked in 1978 to describe his job, the visual effects...

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Colin Cantwell, Star Wars designer behind the X-Wing and Death Star, dies...

The creator behind several iconic Star Wars ships also worked on 2001: A Space Odyssey and assisted in broadcasting the 1969 moon landingColin Cantwell, the man who designed the spacecraft in the Star...

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Colin Cantwell obituary

Artist and designer who created spaceships, stations and vehicles, including the X-wing Starfighter, for the Star Wars filmsColin Cantwell, who has died aged 90 after suffering from Alzheimer’s...

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Lolita at 60: Stanley Kubrick’s daring drama is a deft tightrope act

The first, and greatest, adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s troubling 1955 novel still possesses a strange and unnerving powerWhat happens when a magnet for controversy depolarizes with age? Vladimir...

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Martha Marcy May Marlene to Persuasion: the seven best films to watch on TV...

Elizabeth Olsen makes her escape from a sinister cult, while Dakota Johnson frocks up for a trip to AustenlandContinue reading...

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Leon Vitali, Stanley Kubrick collaborator and Barry Lyndon actor, dies aged 74

Vitali, who gave up acting to become the demanding director’s right-hand man, died in Los Angeles on FridayLeon Vitali, the Barry Lyndon actor who became one of Stanley Kubrick’s closest associates,...

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Leon Vitali obituary

British actor who went on to work for the film director Stanley Kubrick as an assistant, casting adviser and ‘sort of gatekeeper’Leon Vitali, who has died aged 74, occupied a unique position in the...

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The top 100 films… and what they say about our changing society

Offbeat British directors defying realist expectations fare well in poll, but Hitchcock dominatesIt is 2 May 1945 and an airborne RAF pilot is reciting poetry with the clipped delivery of the British...

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‘The police came because of the sea of red gore’: unseen photos from the set...

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining has legions of admirers the world over – not the least Lee Unkrich, director of Pixar classics including Toy Story 3 and Coco. Unkrich spent years collecting pictures,...

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‘I got a bit drunk with the twins’: Toy Story 3’s Lee Unkrich on his...

In an extract from his forthcoming book, Unkrich explains how, aged 12, he first saw the film which would inspire a lifelong passion‘Are you OK? Is it too scary? We can leave if you need to …” It was...

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What links Cate Blanchett’s new film Tár to Sissy Spacek and hot sauce?

A composer and conductor opens the door to Loretta Lynn, Wings of Desire and classic 90s rock from Goo Goo DollsFirst up, Lydia Tár is not real, and the film Tár, coming to cinemas on Friday, is a work...

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