Stanley Kubrick

Book Review: “Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey” — One of the Cinema’s Most Profound Seers

April 20, 2025
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For fans of director Stanley Kubrick, this enhanced biography may be the most thorough and readable volume on one of the cinema’s most profound seers.

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April Short Fuses — Materia Critica

April 1, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Film Review: “Filmworker” — (Over) Labor of Love

May 26, 2018
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Tony Zierra’s film is a worthy and interesting one, but I admit to becoming worn down by the endless litany of unglamorous ways that protagonist Leon Vitali worked his butt off for the genius filmmaker.

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