Stanley Kubrick: The Masterpiece Collection

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This 10-disc Blu-ray collection includes eight Kubrick classics as well as two
newly-produced documentaries: Kubrick Remembered and Stanley Kubrick in Focus,
plus three additional documentaries: Once Upon a Time…’A Clockwork Orange’,
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, and O Lucky !Also included will be a new
78-page hardcover photo book using film archive photographs.Films in the
collection will be Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space
Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining
(1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick Remembered
offers a new look into the Kubrick archives, with special appearances by the
director’s wife, Christiane Kubrick, as well as never-seen footage of
Stanley’s works, his house and his film production facilities. Stanley
Kubrickin Focus presents such directors as Steven Spielberg, Steven
Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, William Friedkin and Martin Scorsese relating how
Kubrick’s directorial style influenced them. Disc 1 – Lolita (1962)Humbert
(James Mason), a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to
small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into
a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished
landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman’s 14-year-
old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love,
but whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious trickster named Clare
Quilty. Disc 2 – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
the Bomb (1964)The cold war satire is a chilling dark comedy about a psychotic
Air Force General unleashing an ingenious, foolproof and irrevocable scheme
sending bombers to attack Russia, as the U.S. President works with the Soviet
premier in a desperate effort to save the world. The film stars Peter Sellers,
in multiple roles, as well as George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden.Disc 3 –
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Kubrick’s dazzling Academy Award®-winning
achievement (Special Visual Effects) is an allegorical puzzle on the evolution
of man and a compelling drama of man vs. machine. Featuring a stunning meld of
music and motion, the film was also Oscar®-nominated for Best Director, Art
Direction and Writing. The director (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur
C. Clarke) first visits the prehistoric age-ancestry past, then leaps
millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized
space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted
space, perhaps even into immortality.Disc 4 – A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Causing major controversy when first released, the film garnered four Academy
Award® nominations – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best
Screenplay. The film also introduced into popular culture the concept of
“ultra-violence,” as singing, tap-dancing, derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm
McDowell) has a “good time” – at the tragic expense of others. His journey
from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the
dynamic arc of Kubrick’s future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess’ novel. Disc 5
– Barry Lyndon (1975) Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal) is a young, roguish Irishman
who’s determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy
nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army and fighting in Europe’s Seven Years
War, Barry deserts, then joins the Prussian army, gets promoted to the rank of
a spy, and becomes a pupil to a Chevalier and con artist/gambler. Barry then
lies, dupes, duels and seduces his way up the social ladder, entering into a
lustful but loveless marriage to a wealthy countess named Lady Lyndon (Marisa
Berenson). He takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in England with wealth
and power beyond his wildest dreams, before eventually falling into ruin. Disc
6 – The Shining (1980)From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel,
Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots
and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre. The Shining is the
director’s epic tale of a man in a snowbound hotel descending into murderous
delusions. In a signature role, Jack Nicholson (“Heeeere’s Johnny!”) stars as
Jack Torrance, who’s come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-
season caretaker with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd). Disc 7
– Full Metal Jacket (1987)A superb ensemble falls in for Stanley Kubrick’s
brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns
people into trained killers. The scathing indictment of a film was nominated
for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. ‘Joker’ (Matthew Modine), ‘Animal
Mother’ (Adam Baldwin), ‘Gomer’ (Vincent D’Onofrio), ‘Eightball’ (Dorian
Harewood) and ‘Cowboy’ (Arliss Howard) are some of the Marine recruits
experiencing boot-camp hell under the punishing command of the foul-mouthed
Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermy). The action is savage, the story unsparing, and
the dialogue is spiked with scathing humor.Disc 8 – Eyes Wide Shut
(1999)Kubrick’s daring and controversial last film is a bracing psychosexual
journey through a haunting dreamscape, a riveting suspense tale and a career
milestone for stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cruise plays a doctor who
plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage – and may ensnare him
in a murder mystery – after his wife’s (Kidman) admission of sexual longings.
As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation,
Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. His graceful tracking
shots, rich colors and startling images are some of the bravura traits that
show Kubrick as a filmmaker for the ages.Disc 9 – Stanley Kubrick: A Life in
Pictures / O’ Lucky Malcolm!· Stanley Kubrick: A Life in PicturesStanley
Kubrick’s career comes into sharp focus in the compelling and revealing
documentary narrated by Tom Cruise. A detailed picture of the cinematic legend
emerges via fascinating footage of Kubrick in his early years, at work on film
sets and at home, and via candid commentary from collaborators, colleagues,
and family. From the music he chose to the cameras he used to his unrealized
projects (including A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the much- anticipated
Kubrick project directed by Steven Spielberg), you’ll uncover a treasure trove
of film-buff information. Drawing on Kubrick archives, it offers for the first
time a truly intimate portrait of his life among family and friends. There has
never been a more essential visual companion piece to the man and his movies.
· O’ Lucky Malcolm! Documentary about the life and career of actor Malcolm
McDowell produced and directed by Jan Harlan.Disc 10 – Kubrick Remembered /
Stanley Kubrick in Focus / Once Upon a Time … A Clockwork Orange· Kubrick
Remembered – NEW A new look into the Kubrick archives, with special
appearances by Christiane Kubrick. Featuring never-seen footage of Stanley’s
works, his house and his film production facilities.· Stanley Kubrick in Focus
– NEW to Blu-ray Spielberg, Soderbergh, Stone, Friedkin, Scorsese and others
tell how Kubrick’s directorial style influenced them and how his unique style
was developed.· Once Upon a Time … A Clockwork Orange – NEW to the U.S.Co-
written by critic Michel Ciment and featuring interviews with a psychologist
and a sociologist, Once Upon a Time … ‘A Clockwork Orange’ is a wonderfully
unusual cine-documentary that focuses more on the titular movie’s historical
context and philosophy than on its production and reception. The documentary
benefits from archival audio commentary by the late Stanley Kubrick, who
offers his rationale for making the controversial, devilishly prescient proto-
punk cult classic: “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”

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Product Details:

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.72 Pounds
• Director ‏ : ‎ Various
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, NTSC
• Release date ‏ : ‎ November 4, 2014
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Various
• Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
• Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner Home Video