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Product Description The Stanley Kubrick: Visionary Filmmaker Collection on Blu-ray is an unprecedented 7-film, 8-disc collection. The collection features the film and bonus content from A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition, the Blu-ray debuts of Lolita and Barry Lyndon, as well as the feature films 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut. A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition Causing major controversy when first released, the film garnered four Academy Award® nominations--Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Screenplay--and is #4 on AFI's Top 10 List of Best Science Fiction films of all-time.Feature FilmNew Bonus FeaturesMalcolm McDowell Looks Back: Malcolm McDowell reflects on his experience working with legendary director Stanley Kubrick on one of the seminal films of the 1970sTurning Like Clockwork considers the film's ultra-violence and its cultural impact PlusCommentary by Malcolm McDowell and historian Nick Redman Documentary Still Tickin': The Return of Clockwork OrangeGreat Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making A Clockwork OrangeTheatrical Trailer Lolita (1962) Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman's 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love, but whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious trickster named Clare Quilty.2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Stanley Kubrick's dazzling, Academy Award®-winning achievement (Special Visual Effects) is an allegorical puzzle on the evolution of man and a compelling drama of man vs. machine. Featuring a stunning meld of music and motion, the film was also Oscar®-nominated for Best Director, Art Direction and Writing. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits the prehistoric age-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.Special Features:Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary LockwoodDocumentary 2001: The Making of a Myth Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001What Is Out There?2001: A Space Odyssey Conceptual ArtworkLook: Stanley Kubrick! Audio-only Bonus: 1966 Kubrick Interview Conducted by Jeremy Bernstein Barry Lyndon (1975) Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) is a young, roguish Irishman who's determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army and fighting in Europe's Seven Years War, Barry deserts, then joins the Prussian army, gets promoted to the rank of a spy, and becomes a pupil to a Chevalier and con artist/gambler. Barry then lies, dupes, duels and seduces his way up the social ladder, entering into a lustful but loveless marriage to a wealthy countess named Lady Lyndon. He takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in England with wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams, before eventually falling into ruin.The Shining (1980)From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre. The Shining is the director's epic tale of a man in a snowbound hotel descending into murderous delusions. In a signature role, Jack Nicholson ("Heeeere's Johnny!") stars as Jack Torrance, who's come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd).Special Features:Commentary by Steadicam inventor/operator Garrett Brown and historian John Baxter Vivian Kubrick's Documentary The Making of the Shining with Optional CommentaryView from the Overlook: Crafting The ShiningThe Visions of Stanley Kubrick and Wendy Carlos, ComposerFull Metal Jacket (1987)A superb ensemble falls in for Stanley Kubrick's brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers. The scathing indictment of a film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Joker (Matthew Modine), Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Gomer (Vincent D'Onofrio), Eightball (Dorian Harewood) and Cowboy (Arliss Howard) are some of the Marine recruits experiencing boot-camp hell under the punishing command of the foul-mouthed Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermy). The action is savage, the story unsparing, and the dialogue is spiked with scathing humor.Special Features:Commentary by Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and critic/screenwriter Jay CocksFull Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil Eyes Wide Shut (1999)Kubrick's daring and controversial last film is a bracing psychosexual journey through a haunting dreamscape, a riveting suspense tale and a career milestone for stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cruise plays a doctor who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage - and may ensnare him in a murder mystery--after his wife's (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. His graceful tracking shots, rich colors and startling images are some of the bravura traits that show Kubrick as a filmmaker for the ages.Special Features:Three-Part Documentary:The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut The Haven/Mission Control, Artificial Intelligence or The Writer Robot, EWS: A Film by Stanley KubrickOther FeaturesLost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley KubrickInterview Gallery Featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg Kubrick's 1998 Directors Guild of America D.W. Griffith Award acceptance speechBonus DiscJan Harland Documentaries: A Life in Pictures and O Lucky ManLanguage and Subtitles InformationLanguage Audio Lolita: English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American SpanishBarry Lyndon: English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American SpanishA Clockwork Orange: English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American SpanishThe Shining: EnglishFull Metal Jacket: English2001: Space Odyssey: EnglishEyes Wide Shut:English Subtitles Lolita: Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, French, Cantonese Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, FinnishBarry Lyndon: Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, French, Cantonese Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, FinnishA Clockwork Orange: Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, French, Cantonese Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, FinnishThe Shining: EnglishFull Metal Jacket: English2001: Space Odyssey: EnglishEyes Wide Shut:English .co.uk Review The Stanley Kubrick: Visionary Filmmaker Collection is a blistering treat for anyone with a deep, longing love of the movies. It’s a pack that brings together seven films from the late, great Stanley Kubrick, spread across eight discs. The quality of the films in question speak for themselves. There’s the 40th anniversary edition of the groundbreaking A Clockwork Orange to kick things off, and other high profile classics include 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut and Full Metal Jacket. Yet boxsets such as these also, by their nature, champion the films that haven’t had such levels of appreciation. Thus, to get a glistening release of the likes of Lolita and Barry Lyndon is a massive bonus in itself, and goes a long way to justify the price of the set. Some films here get more generous extra features than others, which is a shame, and there’s still quite possibly the definitive Stanley Kubrick boxset yet to be made. However, the Visionary Filmmaker Collection is still a terrific package, bringing together a clutch of important films from a genuine cinematic one-off. Quite, quite brilliant. --Jon Foster
G**N
Incredible price.
The films are all unique and brilliant. These are the films which all sit inside the top 100 films ever made. The quality of these blu ray releases is wonderful. 2001 is the film to show to mates when they are umming and ahhing about upgrading to blu ray. the picture is sharp enough to cut the eyeballs and is truly breathtaking. Also, Lolita and Barry Lyndon were previously unavailable on blu and make their debut here. Barry Lyndon is one of my very favorite films (it also has my favorite cinematography of any Kubrick film) so I was very pleased about this, it often gets overlooked but I would personally put it a nose ahead of full metal jacket and EWS. The extras are more than enough on the discs but also included is a whole documentary which is in depth about Kubrick on disc 8. At triple the asking price it would still be a reasonable buy but at this price it is literally a steal - about £3 a film. I have many of these on DVD but at this price I just had to upgrade. If you are even slightly into Kubrick you will without a doubt come back to these films again and again. I'm not wishing to be dramatic but its a price so low its almost criminal. I saw The Shining for sale in a well known entertainment outlet last week and it was £14.99 on normal DVD with all the extras included here, that is two thirds the price of this collection which has 6 times as many films (all in High definition), a documentary and a small book!!!! Buying this at the current price is a steal and even if somehow you haven't seen all the films included just go ahead and buy it I swear you won't be disappointed. So amazed by the price was I that I researched the Blu ray releases to make sure they were not really poor restorations and transfers but this is far from the case = all are known to be good while a few (2001 & The Shining) are noted as being outstanding eye popping transfers. In summary get your hands on this before they sell out and then put the price back up to a reasonable amount, which should surely be about £10 a film. Get it .... Quick !!!
K**R
Good purchase
Some classic films for an unbeatable price.
M**M
A must buy for serious film fans
Where to begin with this? 7 films covering 4 decades from one of the greatest directors of all time, Stanley Kubrick. Lolita is the first film in the set, shot in black and white and starring James Mason as a man who becomes obsessed with a teenage girl and also starring Peter Sellars and Shelley Winters, it's a very black comedy, hilarious in places, chilling in others with excellent performances from the whole cast. 2001: A Space Odyssey is next, one of the greatest scifi films of all time, hardly any dialogue but beautiful to look at like all Kubrick's work really about the evolution of man from primitive ape to the journey into space after the discovery of a mysterious black monolith. Next, A Clockwork Orange. Another classic scifi film starring Malcom Mcdowell as a young violent psychopath in the future who gets brainwashed by the government to try and cure him. Darkly funny with Mcdowell giving his best performance. Barry Lyndon sees an 18th century gambler rise up from commoner to gentleman with a title only to lose it all. Perhaps Kubrick's most underrated film, this period drama is a work of art. The Shining sees Jack Nicholson look after a hotel in the middle of a snow storm with his family only to find out the hotel is haunted. One of the best horror films of all time and one of Kubrick's best with Nicholson giving one of his best performances. Full Metal Jacket sees a group of marines training for then being sent to the Vietnam war in one of the all time great war films while last is Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick's final film before he died and one of his more underrated films about a New York doctor who discovers a bizarre cult. A very adult drama about relationships and not a Hollywood porno starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman that many thought it was at the time. A fantastic set of films, and all classics but despite this, Kubrick's best work not in the set as they were done by another studio showing just how good Kubrick was with tons of documentaries about Kubrick and the making of the films too, this set is a must buy for any serious film fan.
A**T
Decent box-set from a visionary director
1. Lolita- James Mason puts in an excellent performance as a dirty old pervert academic who immediately takes a shine to his landlady's young teenage daughter. Obviously, there are no graphic images but even so, it was somehow distinctly cringe-worthy just watching it. For example, Lolita gets sent to a summer camp, much to Mason's annoyance, called 'Camp Climax for Girls.' 3.5/52. 2001- A Space Odyssey- Classic and very influential film that has inspired countless other sci-fi movies over the years. Released in 1968 it must have literally blown people's minds as it was so far ahead of its time. Now obviously, it comes across as dated, but there's still much to enjoy in this film, focusing mainly on a space expedition to Jupiter where the on-board computer 'Hal' begins to malfunction and break down. 4.5/53. A Clockwork Orange- Acid trip of a film in which Macdowell goes from a gnag murderer to a totally reformed character after receiving some unorthodox new treatment. But is he really cured? 4/54. Barry Lyndon- Epic tale of a penniless chancer who goes from rags to riches and then back again 3.5/55.The Shining- Absolute classic- Nicholson and Duvall put in excellent performances in this dark occultic tale of cabin fever, isolated alone as they are for the winter in the deserted 'Overlook' hotel which has been constructed directly on top of ancient native American burial grounds. 5/56. Full Metal Jacket- For me, too much focus on the harshness of the marine training period, where the drill sergeant gives the new recruits hell, culminating in dire results.3.5/57. Eyes Wide Shut- Good performances from Cruise and Kidman make this film distinctly watchable but it could have gone so much further into the dark side of the elite underworld. 3.5/5
M**E
A lovely set to give a Kubrick fan.
My brother adored this. He's collecting all the box sets of films and TV shows from his youth that he can!
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