Kubrick's fan letter to Ingmar Bergman

Kubrick and The Spy Who Loved Me

In March 1976, construction began of a new sound stage at Pinewood, the 007 Stage. To complement this stage, Eon also paid for building a water tank capable of storing approximately 1,200,000 gallons (4,500,000 litres). The soundstage was in fact so enormous that celebrated director Stanley Kubrick visited the production of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) in secret, to advise on how to light the stage.

Kubrick and chess

Kubrick was quoted as saying, "Chess helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive." He also said, "Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble." Stanley Kubrick was born on July 28, 1928 in the Bronx, USA. His father [Jack or Jaques] taught Stanley how to play chess in 1941, when Stanley was 12. Stanley quickly became a skilled chess player and chess hustler in Central Park. At the age of 17, he was offered a job as an apprentice photographer for Look magazine. During this time, Stanley was playing in chess tournaments at the Marshall and Manhattan Chess Clubs. He as also playing in the parks such as Washington Square in Greenwich and elsewhere for money as a chess hustler. He knew when to get a park chess table in the shade during the day and a ta

Kubrick vs Astro Boy

Often the enjoyment of Kubrick's film is the obscure attention to detail that they contain. This at times can become obsessive in the level of detail, such as John Coulthart's post about the record store scene in Clockwork Orange . I recently watched the 1980s series Astro Boy with my daughter and started to notice similarities to the film A.I. which at first I thought were coincidence but as is often the case with Kubrick he left little room for chance in his work. The development of A.I. Artificial Intelligence was undertaken by Kubrick but directed by Steven Spielberg in 2001 after his death in March 1999 and for this reason the film is not really taken very seriously by people writing about Kubrick. Although many of the ideas contained in the film were directly inspired by Kubrick's concepts it is ultimately the pairing of Spielberg and Kubrick that doesn't quite work. The film plot centres around the journey of a boy robot in his quest to become 'real

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