Stanley Kubrick Collection

Seven of Stanley Kubrick's films spanning nearly 40 years of filmmaking. 'Lolita' (1962) is an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial masterpiece. Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is a fastidious, middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters) he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita (Sue Lyon), the woman's teenaged daughter. In fact, his passion for the girl becomes so overwhelming that he is willing to accept Charlotte's intimations of marriage just in order to be close to her daughter. Humbert then plots to spend more and more time alone with Lolita, but his pursuit of his obsession soon becomes such that it leaves all their lives damaged. '2001: a Space Odyssey' (1968), Kubrick's celebrated sci-fi treatise, uses Strauss' 'Blue Danube', amongst other classical pieces, to add gravity to the film's weightless musings. At the dawn of Mankind, a tribe of ape-like beings are visited on Earth by a large black monolith. Thousands of years later, in the year 2001, scientist Dr Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) discovers a similar black monolith on the moon, which then emits a signal aimed at the planet Jupiter. A year later, astronauts David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) are en route to Jupiter to investigate the signal's destination and purpose. However, their mission comes under threat when the ship computer, HAL (voiced by Douglas Rain), seemingly develops a malfunction. 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971) is Kubrick's controversial film which triggered copycat violence on its initial release and as a result the director withdrew the film from circulation in Britain, keeping it suppressed right up to his death in 1999. The film follows sadistic punk Alex (Malcolm McDowell) as he takes his gang on a rape and murder spree, showing absolutely no mercy to any of his victims. When he is eventually captured, the authorities subject him to a series of experiments designed to rid him of his violent tendencies. In 'Barry Lyndon' (1975) Redman Barry (Ryan O'Neal) is an Irish country boy who falls in love with a well-to-do local girl (Gay Hamilton) and is subsequently tricked by her family into leaving town. Disillusioned with love, the brokenhearted youngster then embarks on an adventure which sees him serve in the Seven Years War, earn a living as a professional gambler, and eventually move into the higher ranks of society when he meets and marries the beautiful Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson). However, despite the luck which has brought him such riches, it is this final move, the cynical choice to marry for social advancement rather than love, which brings about Barry's downfall. 'The Shining' (1980) is a chilling adaptation of the Stephen King shocker. Seeking solitude in order to write a novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as an off-season caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Eager to get started, Jack disregards warnings that the isolation drove a former caretaker mad, and moves into the massive resort with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd). But Danny has a supernatural gift which makes him aware of an evil lurking in the hotel, and sure enough, as winter storms cut the hotel off from civilisation, Jack gradually becomes murderously insane. 'Full Metal Jacket' (1987), his first film for seven years, details the dehumanizing effect of military combat, as experienced by a bunch of Vietnam conscripts under the training of the sadistic Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey). The second half of the film follows one of the recruits, Joker (Matthew Modine), onto the battlefield as he is thrown into the war at the height of the Tet offensive. The entire movie was shot on location in East London. Whilst in his final film 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999) married themselves at the time of production, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman play married couple William and Alice in this, the final film from celebrated director Stanley Kubrick. One night, returning home from a party, Alice confesses that she still has fantasies about a sailor she once knew. William is shocked and jealous, and when he is later called away on business, he finds it impossible to return home, embarking instead on a journey into an illicit underworld of prostitution and sexual debauchery.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: James B. Harris
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Frederic Raphael
Writer: Vladimir Nabokov
Writer: Arthur C. Clarke
Voice: Douglas Rain
Music: Béla Bartók
Music: Abigail Mead
Music: Jocelyn Pook
Music: Walter Carlos
Music: Nelson Riddle
Actor: James Mason
Actor: Matthew Modine
Actor: Marisa Berenson
Actor: Jack Nicholson
Actor: Shelley Duvall
Actor: Danny Lloyd
Actor: Adam Baldwin
Actor: Tom Cruise
Actor: Nicole Kidman
Actor: Sydney Pollack
Actor: Marie Richardson
Actor: Malcolm McDowell
Actor: Michael Bates
Actor: Warren Clarke
Actor: Sue Lyon
Actor: Patrick Magee
Actor: Scatman Crothers
Actor: Vincent D'Onofrio
Actor: R. Lee Ermey
Actor: Rade Sherbedgia
Actor: Todd Field
Actor: Vinessa Shaw
Actor: Alan Cumming
Actor: Sky Dumont
Actor: John Clive
Actor: Adrienne Corri
Actor: Carl Duering
Actor: Paul Farrell
Actor: Clive Francis
Actor: Michael Gover
Actor: Shelley Winters
Actor: Hardy Krüger
Actor: Barry Nelson
Actor: Dorian Harewood
Actor: Jon Stafford
Actor: John Terry
Actor: Fay Masterson
Actor: Leelee Sobieski
Actor: Thomas Gibson
Actor: Leon Vitali
Actor: Miriam Karlin
Actor: James Marcus
Actor: Aubrey Morris
Actor: Sheila Raynor
Actor: Madge Ryan
Actor: John Savident
Actor: Anthony Sharp
Actor: Dave Prowse
Actor: John J. Carney
Actor: Peter Sellers
Actor: Steven Berkoff
Actor: David Baxt
Actor: Arliss Howard
Actor: Bernard Hepton
Actor: Ryan O'Neal
Actor: Prudence Drage
Actor: Carol Drinkwater
Actor: Gillian Hills
Actor: Craig Hunter
Actor: Virginia Wetherall
Actor: Katya Wyeth
Actor: Marianne Stone
Actor: Gay Hamilton
Actor: Lia Beldam
Actor: Kevyn Major Howard
Actor: Diana Decker
Actor: Keir Dullea
Actor: Marie Kean
Actor: Lisa Burns
Actor: Ed O'Ross
Actor: Jerry Stovin
Actor: Gary Lockwood
Actor: Murray Melvin
Actor: Tony Burton
Actor: Gary Cockrell
Actor: William Sylvester
Actor: Frank Middlemass
Actor: Alison Coleridge
Actor: Suzanne Gibbs
Actor: Leonard Rossiter
Actor: André Morell
Actor: Barry Dennen
Actor: Roberta Shore
Actor: Robert Beatty
Actor: Godfrey Quigley
Actor: Billie Gibson
Actor: Margaret Tyzack
Actor: Anne Jackson
Actor: Frank Miller
Actor: Arthur Sullivan
Actor: Kate Phelps
Actor: Philip Stone
Actor: Daniel Richter
Actor: Joe Turkel