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Warner Home Video celebrates the 80th Anniversary of
Stanley Kubrick’s birth with:
STANLEY KUBRICK SPECIAL EDITIONS
2001: A Space Odyssey Special Edition
A Clockwork Orange Special Edition
Eyes Wide Shut Special Edition
The Shining Special Edition
Full Metal Jacket Deluxe Edition
And an Amaray Box Set featuring A Life in Pictures
Remastered and in widescreen on Blu-Ray and DVD
from 3rd March 2008
To celebrate what would have been the legendary director’s 80th birthday Warner Home Video are re-releasing five of Stanley Kubrick’s most highly acclaimed works, fully remastered and accompanied by hours of new and rare features in 2-disc Special Editions. In addition to the individual titles, a ten disc Box Set, complete with A Life in Pictures documentary charting Kubrick’s early life, will give fans the chance to own all these iconic films in one beautifully presented Collectors Edition.
2001: A Space Odyssey has been skillfully remastered in time for its 40th Anniversary year; whilst Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket, debut in their original widescreen cinematic format.
All of the special features have been created in collaboration with, and approved by, the Estate of Stanley Kubrick and offer insightful and in-depth special features including commentaries, documentaries, interviews with the man himself and special new featurettes that provide a rare look into the mind of the master filmmaker. The documentary A Life in Pictures, narrated by Tom Cruise, details Kubrick’s early life, at work and at home, with candid commentary from collaborators, colleagues and family.
The films in the Stanley Kubrick Special Editions also represented landmarks for many of our current A-list stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Jack Nicholson, Malcolm McDowell, Vincent D’Onofrio, Matthew Modine, amongst others.
| 2001: A Space Odyssey |
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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 and Best Screenplay.
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. |
DVD Special Features:
Disc One
- Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood
- Theatrical trailer
Disc Two
- Channel 4 documentary: 2001: The Making of a Myth
- Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
- Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
- 2001: A Space Odyssey- A Look Behind the Future
- 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork
- Look: Stanley Kubrick!
- 'What Is Out There?' featurette
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
| A Clockwork Orange |
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Stomping, whopping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time – at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Kubrick’s future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess’ novel.
Controversial when first released, the film garnered three Academy Award nominations – Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Its power still entices, shocks and mesmerizes today. |
DVD Special Features:
Disc One
- Commentary by Malcolm McDowell and historian Nick Redman
- Theatrical trailer
Disc Two
- Channel 4 documentary: Still Tickin’: The Return of Clockwork Orange
- New featurette: Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making A Clockwork Orange
- Career profile: O Lucky Malcolm!
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
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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. |
DVD Special Features:
Disc One
- Scene specific commentary by Sydney Pollack and historian Peter Loewenberg
- Theatrical trailer and TV spots
Disc Two
- Channel 4 documentary: The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut
- Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
- Kubrick’s 1998 DGA D.W Griffith Award acceptance speech
- Interview gallery featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Steven Spielberg
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
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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 humour. |
DVD Special Features:
- Commentary by Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and Jay Cocks
- New Featurette: Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
- Theatrical trailer
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
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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). |
DVD Special Features:
Disc One
- Commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter
- Theatrical trailer
Disc Two
- Documentary The Making of the Shining, with optional commentary byVivian Kubrick
- Three new featurettes: View from The Overlook: Crafting the Shining, The Visions of Stanley Kubrick, and Wendy Carlos, Composer
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
| Stanley Kubrick – A Life in Pictures |
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Produced and directed by longtime Kubrick associate Jan Harlan, this full-length documentary includes footage and personal photographs made available by Christiane Kubrick, the director’s wife of more than 42 years. The film paints a surprisingly accessible portrait of Kubrick, giving a strikingly different view of the man and what influenced him as a filmmaker.
Among the long list of actors, friends and colleagues paying tribute are Woody Allen, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Shelley Duvall, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Christiane Kubrick, Paul Mazursky, Malcolm McDowell, Matthew Modine, Jack Nicholson, Alan Parker, Sydney Pollack, Richard Schickel, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Douglas Trumbull and Sir Peter Ustinov. |
Stanley Kubrick: A Brief Overview
by Jan Harlan
Stanley Kubrick was one of the great film directors of our time. His continuing influence on motion pictures is profound. But Stanley was as unknown as his films were known and we hope our documentary redresses that balance.
Stanley Kubrick was born on July 26, 1928 in New York City and grew up in the Bronx where his father was a physician. When he was just 16 and in high school, Kubrick shot a photograph of a news vendor the day after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died and submitted it to Look magazine. Look printed the photo and soon hired him (at 17) as their youngest ever staff photographer.
After creating a photo essay on boxer Walter Cartier for Look, Kubrick used his savings to make an impressive, gritty 16-minute documentary film, “Day of the Fight” (1950), based on the essay. Two other documentaries -- “Flying Padre” and “The Seafarers” -- followed before he made his first feature film, Fear and Desire in 1953. Kubrick The movie about a fictitious war was directed, produced, photographed and co-scripted by Kubrick and largely financed by his father and other family members.
Killer's Kiss was shot two years later and then came The Killing (1956), a noir thriller about a race track heist with Sterling Hayden, that prompted Time magazine to remark that Kubrick “has shown more imagination with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out of town.”
In 1957 Kubrick made Paths of Glory, starring Kirk Douglas, which was set in World War I and was one of the most uncompromising anti-war films in the history of the cinema. Kirk Douglas subsequently hired Kubrick to direct Spartacus (1960), the most intelligent of the then current “epic” films, and the only film on which Kubrick did not have complete control.
Two darkly satiric films then followed -- the much-acclaimed Lolita (1962), with James Mason and Peter Sellers, and Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), again with Peter Sellers, a movie that eviscerated and held to high ridicule the Cold War arms race.
2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 redefined the science fiction/futuristic film and the special effects set a new standard for accuracy, realism and beauty.
In 1971 A Clockwork Orange portrayed an oppressive lawless society where man was reduced to little more than a machine. This was a powerful film made by a director at the height of his powers and the impact of the film generated worldwide controversy. Barry Lyndon (1975), with Ryan O’Neill, portrayed on a grand canvas an 18th century rogue with a compassion and attention to historical detail that has rarely been equaled in the cinema.
In 1980 Kubrick produced what many critics regard as the ultimate horror film, The Shining, based on the novel by Stephen King and starring Jack Nicholson. Full Metal Jacket (1987) saw Kubrick return to the subject of war, this time the Vietnam conflict, as seen through the eyes of a U.S. Marine played by Matthew Modine.
Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), is an enigmatic study of a married couple, their love for each other and their real or imagined infidelities. It starred Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and was the fitting end to a distinguished career. Over a career that spanned some five decades, Kubrick thought that this film was his greatest accomplishment.
Stanley Kubrick died peacefully at his home in England in the early hours of Sunday, March 7, 1999. He is survived by a wife and three daughters and has left to the cinema an enduring legacy. |
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