Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2001
Running Times: 142 mins (also shown on TV in three parts)
Format: black and white / colour
Ratio:
Sound: stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Warner Bros.
Producer: Jan Harlan
Associate Producer: Anthony Frewin

DIRECTION
Director: Jan Harlan
Additional Footage: Vivian Kubrick

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Manuel Harlan
Rostrum Camera Operator: Ken Morse

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Melanie Viner-Cuneo
Online Editor: Alan Jones
Assistant Avid Editor: Claus Wehlisch

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Nigel Galt
Sound: Manuel Harlan
Re-Recording Mixers: Graham V. Hartstone, Brendan Nicholson
Sound Editing: The Sound Design Company

MISCELLANEOUS
Colourist: Nick Adams
Transcriptions: Katie Barget, Andrea Cunnington
Picture Researchers: Marianne Bower, Camille DeBiase, Tom Gambale
Computer Support: Nick Frewin

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: Tony Lawson

CAST
Tom Cruise (himself / narrator)
Martin Short (himself)
Ken Adam (himself)
Margaret Adams (herself)
Brian Aldiss (himself)
Woody Allen (himself)
Steven Berkoff (himself)
Louis C. Blau (himself)
John Calley (himself)
Milena Canonero (herself)
Wendy Carlos (herself)
Arthur C. Clarke (himself)
Alex Cox (himself)
Allen Daviau (himself)
Ed Di Giulio (himself)
Keir Dullea (himself)
Shelley Duvall (herself)
Anthony Frewin (himself)
Jan Harlan (himself)
James B. Harris (himself)
Michael Herr (himself)
Philip Hobbs (himself)
Chris Chase (herself)
Nicole Kidman (herself)
Barbara Kroner (herself)
Anya Kubrick (herself)
Christiane Kubrick (herself)
Katharina Kubrick (herself)
Paul Lashmar (himself)
György Ligeti (himself)
Steven Marcus (himself)
Paul Mazursky (himself)
Malcolm McDowell (himself)
Douglas Milsome (himself)
Matthew Modine (himself)
Jack Nicholson (himself)
Tony Palmer (himself)
Alan Parker (himself)
Sydney Pollack (himself)
Richard Schickel (himself)
Martin Scorsese (himself)
Terry Semel (himself)
Alex Singer (himself)
Steven Spielberg (himself)
Sybil Taylor (herself)
Douglas Trumbull (himself)
Peter Ustinov (himself)
Leon Vitali (himself)
Marie Windsor (herself)
Alan Yentob (himself)

PLOT SUMMARY

A biography of Stanley Kubrick, including contributions from many of his friends, family and colleagues.

Though the darker side of Kubrick's genius is ignored, this is nevertheless an outstanding biography of one the all-time great directors. There's little here that the die-hard fan won't already know, but it's a good insight into the great man's working methods. Recommended for fans and the more sceptical alike.

Germany
DVD Distributor: Warner Bros. GmbH

USA
Video Distributor: Warner Home Video
DVD Distributor: Warner Home Video

Australia
Rating: MA

Germany
Rating: 12

2001
Video Premiere Awards
Best Original Retrospective Documentary (Jan Harlan) - nominated

2002
Golden Satellite Awards
Best Motion Picture, Documentary - nominated

2001
February
17: Germany - shown at the Berlin International Film Festival

May
2: USA – shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival

June
12: USA - video release

August
23: Germany - video release

September
3: UK – television broadcast
14: Netherlands – shown at the Film by the Sea Film Festival

October
19: Canada – shown at the Montréal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media

2002
June
23: Russia – shown at the Moscow Film Festival

December
7: Czech Republic – shown at British Film Days

Maailma Kubrickin silmin – Finnish title
Stanley Kubrick - ohjaajan muotokuva – Finnish title
Stanley Kubrick: Una vida através del cine – Mexican title
Stanley Kubrick: Una vida en imágenes – Spanish title
Stanley Kubrick: Une vie en images – French title

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The Shining (1980)

MAGAZINES

film dienst vol.54 no.18 (28 August 2001) pp.32-33 (Germany)
review (by Margarete Wach)

biography, film history, film-makers

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009