Word: kubricks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems almost fitting that when director Stanley Kubrick died at home on March 7, The New York Times felt it necessary to report that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. Kubrick always had a reputation as something of a misanthrope, a connoisseur of violence and off-kilter ideas. It's no wonder people translated the Kubrick that they saw on the screen to the Kubrick who lived a quiet life as an expatriate in London. Alas, the real Kubrick died a death less bizarre or shocking than that of many of his characters. But his movies, as mundane...
Ironically, it was his experiences with bad movies that convinced Kubrick to turn to a life of filmmaking. While working as a photographer for Look magazine, Kubrick attended screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and was surprised at how poor many of the films were...
...course, Kubrick did far more than make movies of slightly better quality than those that he saw at the MOMA. Though his filmography is limited (he made only eight movies after 1960), Kubrick's works stand out as some of the hallmarks of film-making in the late 20th century...
Indeed, it sometimes seems that there is not a bold or original movie that comes out today that deals with a theme Kubrick didn't touch first--and with far greater skill...
...TREK TO THE QUAD IN THE SNOW AND SLUSH TAKES 19 minutes / STANLEY KUBRICK'S "A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" RUNS FOR 137 minutes / THE HOLY MATRIMONY OF JOE DIMAGGIO AND MARILYN MONROE LASTED 388,800 minutes / FIRST-YEARS MUST HAND IN THEIR BLOCKING FORMS IN THE NEXT 7,560 minutes / THE Undergraduate Council DEBATED ON THE ISSUE OF THE STUDENT CENTER FOR 180 minutes / A MILLION-DOLLAR ADVERTISEMENT DURING THE OSCARS PERSUADES FOR 1.5 minutes / YOUR HOURLY EXAM SHOULDN'T TAKE ANY LONGER THAN 50 minutes / saint patrick's day rolls around in 5760 minutes / to win the ncaa tournament...