Eclecticist

Whenever we see lists of 'greatest' anything to do with cinema, the name Stanley Kubrick will almost certainly be there and his paragraph will likely have words like 'innovator', 'meticulous', 'control freak', 'freak'. He was freakish in the level of interest he would take into what he was working on, finely crafting every second of celluloid whether it was to appear in the final cut or not. His attention to detail and absolute perfectionism would win him frothing adoration from movie geeks and bemusement and incredulity from his actors and crew. And what of the box office? Contrary to popular assumption, his movies never initially set any records in fact it's fair to say that the three movies we're discussing today were slow burners with the possible exception of 'A Clockwork Orange' but that was withdrawn in the UK and only existed in notoriety until Kubrick's death in 1999. Eclecticist.co.uk.