OpenCulture: Most cinephiles want to watch not just their favorite directors’ films, but their favorite directors’ favorite films. And how many cinephiles’ lists of favorite directors fail to include Stanley Kubrick? In 2013, we featured the only top-ten list the director of 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange ever wrote, for Cinema magazine in 1963.
There are few auteurs as instantly recognizable and divisive as Stanley Kubrick.
“Kubrickian” films tend to exercise incredible control of the camera, are extremely ambitious, tend to deal with much weightier themes, and always maintain a sense of mystery, like there’s an invisible fog always hovering over the film.
Scott says in a new Los Angeles Times interview that Kubrick called him up after seeing the director's 1979 sci-fi classic.
