Which Stanley Kubrick DIRECTED film  is your choice as far as his most preferred work (in your opinion); SK's varied career has spanned many decades. I feel that he was a timeless master of film directing:

2001
Barry Lindon
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange (My #1!)
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love THE BOMB!
Spartacus
The Shining
Etc
Etc
Etc.........
Eyes Wide Shut (Ho  Hum)


I.F.

i'd go

2001
strangelove
full metal jacket
shining

for my top four. eyes wide shut i'd put at the bottom. i tried so hard but that movie dares you to watch it.

i'd go

2001
strangelove
full metal jacket
shining

for my top four. eyes wide shut i'd put at the bottom. i tried so hard but that movie dares you to watch it.


No!  It's a struggle to sit through, and as you see, is at the bottom of my list!

i'd go

2001
strangelove
full metal jacket
shining

for my top four. eyes wide shut i'd put at the bottom. i tried so hard but that movie dares you to watch it.


I'll say
2001
full metal jacket
spartacus
strangelove
shinging

eyes wide shut is what happens when you pit Tom Cruise against real actors....man, his ass was toast.

paths of glory is really cool. so's lolita. i always thought killers was kinda overrated.

i have yet to see spartacus or barry lyndon, unfortunately.

I only ever saw 'The Shining' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'  :-[

I saw bits of A Clockwork Orange, but it was too weird and violent for my liking  :\'(

yeah, I'm not real big on ACO either. The rape scene's just too hard to stomach.

Having been accustom to Stanley Kubrick and eagerly awaited his next production (when he was alive), I have grown to consider that SK is probably the most acclaimed film director that has been, he was a profectionist, at all cost to create the right scene, even driving actors and actresses to tears with long takes and continual retakes. One particular scene in The Shning when Shelley Duvall is crying or screaming, the scene was re-taken at least 41 times.

I saw Lolita...and sort of feel empty and unfufilled. I think Sue Lyon's (the actress who played her) character was tantalising, but was so underdeveloped. Rather than being a seducing nymphet, she was more like a bratty schoolgirl. Even as a social documen it didn't always hit home.

Space Odyssey was often course magnificent, but only for when you don't mind nodding off while watching a movie.

Having been accustom to Stanley Kubrick and eagerly awaited his next production (when he was alive), I have grown to consider that SK is probably the most acclaimed film director that has been, he was a profectionist, at all cost to create the right scene, even driving actors and actresses to tears with long takes and continual retakes. One particular scene in The Shning when Shelley Duvall is crying or screaming, the scene was re-taken at least 41 times.


All those takes and I have to say, I didn't like the shining.  Well--perhaps some scenes if I watch it again and pick it apart....but as a Stephen King fan, I don't think Kubrick's interpretation reflected the book well.  And Nicholson, to me, never became the character -- he was Jack Nicholson having a grand time playing a crazy guy.

I haven't seen Clockwork in more years than I care to admit but....while I also had a hard time with the violence....it was still excellent film-making.

Space Odessy -- again -- a legend but I don't really want to watch it again.

At the time of Stanley Kubrick's death, he was working on Artificial Intelligence: AI, of which Steven Spielberg went on to make, and SK was reading Philip K. Dick's short story Minority Report, which and Steven Spielberg went on to make and made that film into an homage to Stanley Kubrick, featuring scenes that are "Director Trademarks" typical of Kubrick.

I saw Lolita...and sort of feel empty and unfufilled. I think Sue Lyon's (the actress who played her) character was tantalising, but was so underdeveloped. Rather than being a seducing nymphet, she was more like a bratty schoolgirl. Even as a social documen it didn't always hit home.
well, i'd that confusion between nymphet and bratty schoolgirl is exactly what it's about. if you read the book (Which is really brilliant) it's clear that lolita's a nymphet only in humbert humbert's mind, really she's just a little snot. but it makes the whole thing a question of perspectives, you watch humbert's delusion, where she reads nonsexual gestures she makes as attempts to seduce him because that's what he wants to see, and you can see the truth but he can't, which makes that soliloquy so much sadder at the end at the schoolyard -- 'the true tragedy wasn't her absence from my side but the absence of her voice from that chorus" of playing schoolkids, because he realized, too late, that he'd polluted her innocence based on something that was totally his imagination. (to be fair, i can't remember if that line's actually in the kubrick movie.)

anyway, if they just made her a nymph we'd pretty much just be cradlerobbers right along with humbert, no? all that ambiguity would be lost.

well, i'd that confusion between nymphet and bratty schoolgirl is exactly what it's about. if you read the book (Which is really brilliant) it's clear that lolita's a nymphet only in humbert humbert's mind, really she's just a little snot. but it makes the whole thing a question of perspectives, you watch humbert's delusion, where she reads nonsexual gestures she makes as attempts to seduce him because that's what he wants to see, and you can see the truth but he can't, which makes that soliloquy so much sadder at the end at the schoolyard -- 'the true tragedy wasn't her absence from my side but the absence of her voice from that chorus" of playing schoolkids, because he realized, too late, that he'd polluted her innocence based on something that was totally his imagination. (to be fair, i can't remember if that line's actually in the kubrick movie.)

anyway, if they just made her a nymph we'd pretty much just be cradlerobbers right along with humbert, no? all that ambiguity would be lost.


Yes, I guess the film's main point is the tantalising interplay between reality and imagination, more an exploration of obsession than simply a story about a dirty 'cradlerobber'.etc

Full Metal Jacket is my all time favorite Kubrick Film

Then
Paths of Glory 
Lolita
& Killer's Kiss

Although it was a little dry I liked Barry Lyndon especially the allusion to great artworks from the Renaissance
The Killing was first but it too was a little stiff

I know its unpopular of me but I HATED with all of the hate that I could muster 2001, Dr Strangelove and The Shining. If I never see them again I will die happy.

I haven't seen Spartacus (odd I know) nor have I seen Eyes Wide Shut (no loss here though right?) In all though I think the man was a great director.

Full Metal Jacket is my all time favorite Kubrick Film

I haven't seen Spartacus (odd I know) nor have I seen Eyes Wide Shut (no loss here though right?) In all though I think the man was a great director.
Firstly, I agree that Full Metal Jacket is probably his best film, which entirely shot on UK soil.

The original director for Spartacus was sacked from the film and Stanley Kubrick was brought in at short notice, thus making Spartacus a really non-Kubrick film.

Eyes Wide Shut is strange, I have seen clips, but not the whole movie yet, and will do very soon (will be reported here).

Tie for first place:
A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove
Then 2001
Then Spartacus which was the only one of the Bible epics of that era that I liked at all.

I admit I haven't seen as many of his films as I want but all of them I have seen have affected my perspective and that's good art, even if it requires effort to encompass (sit through) it.

I always liked 
Barry Lyndon & Dr. Strangelove

As for the rest, out of what I've seen, which are

Lolita
2001: A Space Odyssey
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Spartacus
The Shining

I just as soon not see any of them again. The Shining and A Clockwork Orange are probably two of the most overrated films of all time.

And I wouldn't consider Spartacus a "Bible epic".