Average rating: 4.2/5  
Films watched: 13/13 (100%)

My thoughts on Stanley Kubrick:
Stanley Kubrick, a man who had a habit of making classic, great movies, a man who had an unparalleled level of detail and a man who set the bar with every genre he explored. It’s really hard to argue that Stanley Kubrick is objectively the best film director ever. His best attribute in my opinion is the ability to create an atmosphere with his films, the immersive feeling he generates that hooks me into his films, I don’t think any scene from any movie has unsettled me like the entire of the cult scenes in Eyes Wide Shut (1999)…but I loved it. While many of his first few films failed to amaze, what we eventually got was a filmography like no other, containing arguably the best sci-fi ever made, the best horror ever made and a couple of war movies that are up there with the best. Shying away from interviews with very minimal archival footage, there is very little opportunity to determine what he was like as a person, relying mainly on anecdotal references, but the mysterious nature of him as a person is actually a great attribute. To just know there is a mysterious filmmaker churning out classic after classic is such an intriguing element to the man. Would he have been a great man to work for? Yes and no. With Shelley Duvall pulling out clumps of her hair and being alienated from cast and crew in The Shining (1980), and Harvey Keitel quitting after being asked to do a take over 50 times in Eyes Wide Shut (1999), amongst probable other incidents, he doesn’t sound like a delight. However, seeing a pure master at work with the level of perfectionism and attention to detail must have been a sight to behold, the few actors who got to work with him should count themselves very lucky because in my opinion he embodies the enchantment of cinema, creating mind blowing cinema for over 40 years.
(Written, 15/04/2024)