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Lists about the acclaimed and controversial director of The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, and so many more of the greatest movies of all time.

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Stanley Kubrick is considered one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time. And with good reason. His films are some of the most memorable and feature intelligent plot lines, exquisite camera work, special effects and other groundbreaking innovations that cemented his legacy. <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-people-from-new-york-city/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Born in New York</a>, Kubrick spent most his life living and working in England. Not only did Kubrick direct, he also held titles of producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor, which help mold his films with his unique vision. Filmbuffs have long debated what is the best Stanley Kubrick film. With a filmography has extensive and iconic as Kubrick's, you really can't go wrong. Dr Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita Full Metal Jacket, The Shining and 2001: A Space Odyssey are all classics that have stood the test of time. They are considered some of the best films in history. This is what makes Kubrick such an important director. His best films are in multiple genres and his stories can swing back and forth between striking black comedy and terrifying potential realities. The best Kubrick movies are thought provoking and make you dig deep as a viewer to see what the underlying message of the film is. Vote the movie you think is Stanley Kubrick's best.

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All kinds of horrific events occur in <a href="https://historydaily.org/wait-where-was-the-shining-filmed" target="_blank">Stanley Kubrick&#39;s </a><a href="https://historydaily.org/wait-where-was-the-shining-filmed" target="_blank">The Shining</a>,&nbsp;but the madness didn&#39;t end when the cameras stopped rolling.&nbsp;In fact, the horrors that took place behind the scenes may have helped to make the on-screen insanity feel more palpable for viewers.&nbsp;

Adapting Stephen King&#39;s story <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/shelley-duvall-the-shining-behind-the-scenes-stories/oliver-pretl-drummond" target="_blank">took a toll</a> on all involved, and there are plenty of stories about making&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-facts-about-the-shining/anncasano" target="_blank">The Shining</a>&nbsp;that sound absolutely excruciating.&nbsp;Combine a <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-stories-about-stanley-kubrick/anncasano" target="_blank">notoriously obsessive director</a>, a major star tackling&nbsp;a challenging role, and some complex visual imagery, and you&#39;re in for a remarkably taxing year of filming.&nbsp;Kubrick, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-characters-in-the-shining-movie/ranker-entertainment" target="_blank">rest of the cast</a> and crew survived a real-life&nbsp;nightmare&nbsp;to&nbsp;deliver&nbsp;one of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-horror-films-ever-made" target="_blank">best horror movies</a> ever made.

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No horror film in cinematic history has had a bigger impact on popular culture than Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 classic <a href="http://www.ranker.com/review/the-shining/2220413">The Shining</a>. The internet is filled with weird facts about The Shining&nbsp;(among other things) and endless stories regarding the film's hellish production.&nbsp;It’s no secret that Stanley Kubrick was not just a perfectionist, but also kind of a raging dick. He would do anything and everything to get a scene just right. Whether it was making an already fragile actress do the same part of a scene 127 times or taking one year to film a 26 second scene, Kubrick never backed down from his artistic vision.Thanks to the internet, there are countless conspiracies about The Shining out there to ponder. There so many The Shining facts that one could spend, say, an unhealthy amount of time in an abandoned winter chateau obsessively reading them&nbsp;and still not be satisfied. You know, all work and no play etcetera, etcetera. Anyway, here's a few of the most interesting ones. &nbsp;

It took some prodding from his wife and a failed Napoleon movie project to finally convince director Stanley Kubrick to adapt Anthony Burgess&#39;s&nbsp;1962 futuristic, dystopian, juvenile delinquent, black comedy novel&nbsp;A Clockwork Orange. Judging by these A Clockwork Orange movie facts, however, it&#39;s easy to see why the meticulous director ultimately decided to take on the ambitious project.&nbsp;

The making of A Clockwork Orange begins and ends with Burgess&#39;s acclaimed novel. It was such excellent source material for Kubrick that he barely used an actual script while filming. The movie is especially unsettling, though much of its&nbsp;violence is left to the viewer&#39;s interpretation. Even still, when the movie was originally released in 1972, it earned an X-Rating. Kubrick later altered two of the&nbsp;most gratuitous scenes and the MPAA gave the &quot;less offensive&quot;&nbsp;version an R-Rating when it was subsequently rereleased.&nbsp;

A Clockwork Orange <a href="https://townhall.com/entertainment/connorveenstra/2019/03/28/revisiting-a-classic-a-clockwork-orange-n2543490" target="_blank">was condemned by </a>The National Catholic Office Motion Pictures for its depiction of adult pleasure and violence. It was so controversial in the UK that Kubrick opted to pull it from distribution&nbsp;after his family received threats and after a series of &quot;copy-cat crimes&quot; were committed.&nbsp;Kubrick was so affected by the controversy&nbsp;that it was not until the director&nbsp;passed&nbsp;in 1999 that&nbsp;theaters in the UK&nbsp;were allowed to publicly screen the film.

Stateside, the controversy was not so extreme. In fact, in the United States, the movie earned <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=clockworkorange.htm" target="_blank">more than $20 million </a>at the box office on just a $2 million budget. It also received four Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture.&nbsp;

A Clockwork Orange lives on in pop culture infamy. It has influenced acclaimed movie directors like Quentin Tarantino and Danny Boyle, been referenced in the music of Led Zeppelin and David Bowie, and been satirized on The Simpsons and South Park.&nbsp;

Which famous rock star almost played the lead role of Alex? How did the joyous show tune&nbsp;&quot;Singin&rsquo; in the Rain&quot; find its way into one of the movie&#39;s most disturbing scenes? How did Malcolm McDowell almost lose his eye sight? Learn about those A Clockwork Orange behind-the-scenes stories and more.&nbsp;

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List of the most disturbing <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-stanley-kubrick-films?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Stanley Kubrick movies</a>, as ranked by fans and critics. Stanley Kubrick, from 1951 until his death in 1999,made some of the most memorable and alarming movies of all time. His directing style leaned towards mind bending narratives with psychotic characters that haunted our nightmares for years to come. On most of his films he worked as both writer and director, taking complete control on the wickedly twisted stories and how they were told. In fact, he actually worked as a cinematographer,editor, camera operator, and visual effects person, for which he won an Oscar. One of the most disturbing parts of the bulk of Kubrick’s work is that the main character was often very villainous, making it difficult for the audience to know who they should be rooting for, like in the film Lolita. Movies like The Shining and A Clockwork Orange are often listed as the most terrifying movies of all time, which is mostly credited to Kubrick’s unique style.What are the most disturbing Stanley Kubrick films? This list includes movies that are scary, mind-bending, haunting, and sometimes even distressing long after the credits have rolled, which is why Kubrick is considered the master of the unsettling.&nbsp;

There are directors who are known as actor-friendly. Then&nbsp;there is Stanley Kubrick, a filmmaker who was not too afraid to tell an actor to do a scene again and again and again and again. Some may call a director who asks an actor to do the simple task of walking through a door 95 times demanding, or even insane, while others simply call him a perfectionist. Either way, here are some of&nbsp;Stanley Kubrick's craziest moments.Unlike a meticulous director like David Fincher, who’s known to do dozens of takes in order to achieve his vision, Kubrick did not come to a film set with a concrete plan. Fincher knew exactly what he wanted in his mind and would continually do take after take until his vision was achieved. Kubrick did not realize his vision until a production was already underway;&nbsp;he would ask actors for multiple takes because he didn’t really know what would work until he saw it in front of him.No doubt, any actor who worked with Kubrick would admit that he was difficult. But we can’t argue with the finished products. There are very few directors who achieved cinematic greatness in so many different genres, from science fiction to war to horror. Sure, he pushed his actors to their limits in order to squeeze out every single ounce of their talent. However, the end product was The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Dr. Strangelove.The next time you enjoy one of Kubrick's masterpieces, think about all the madness that had to happen behind the scenes to achieve these works of brilliance.

When was the last time something melted your brain? Kubrick films, no matter how many times you watch them, always manage to warp your mind, but the real brain melters&nbsp;of&nbsp; Stanleyton are the Kubrick&nbsp;fans who have found evidence of a Stanley Kubrick shared universe. That’s right, people out there have posed some wild Kubrick theories.&nbsp;A lot of these theorists&nbsp;believe most, if not all, his films are related to each other. The basis for many of these theories come from self-referential Kubrick moments, though&nbsp;a few arose from painstaking hours of parsing the auteur’s films frame-by-frame&nbsp;to find the tiniest slivers of evidence of a Full Metal Clockwork Space Odyssey.Whether you’re a cinephile who wants to see what&nbsp;the fuss is about&nbsp;or are intrigued by shared cinematic universe theories, these Kubrick film fan theories will turn you into a raving lunatic. Maybe. Probably. Seriously, they're kind of insane.&nbsp;Regardless of whether or not these fan theories are true, it’s possible&nbsp;Kubrick was the last director&nbsp;working with a sizable budget who was able to control his productions to such a degree&nbsp;he could make visual and aural references to his previous work while creating an all-new subtext with which to view his films in such a complex way. Okay, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/quentin-tarantino-movies-fan-theories/anncasano">maybe Tarantino</a>. Certainly not JJ Abrams, who does seem&nbsp;to have a <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/jj-abrams-fan-theories/jacob-shelton">shared universe</a>, but not in any meaningful way.&nbsp;Kubrick's&nbsp;work eclipses that of any modern director. Even though passed away in 1999, after finishing Eyes Wide Shut, his <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-stanley-kubrick-films">body of work</a> is why directors like <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/movies-and-films-directed-by-christopher-nolan/reference">poor Chris Nolan</a> will never eat at the big boy table as long as they&nbsp;continues to try to court the mainstream, rather than forcing the sheeple to come to them.&nbsp;Keep reading for all the Stanley Kubrick fan theories you can handle, then go throw a tennis ball at a wall for a couple of hours.&nbsp;

You hear this guy&#39;s name thrown around a lot, and for good reason. Can&#39;t decide on your favorite Kubrick flick? Neither could we. So we just included all of the most impressive movie facts of his that we could find (so far).&nbsp;Below you&#39;ll find some crazy production facts and in-film details that completely blew our minds, from his powerhouse icons like&nbsp;The Shining and&nbsp;2001: A Space Odyssey&nbsp;to his last visual&nbsp;swan song,&nbsp;Eyes Wide Shut.

Drama

In a time where leaks from a film set are commonplace, either from anonymous sources or the Instagram accounts of the stars themselves, it&rsquo;s hard to imagine a secretive director like Stanley Kubrick bringing A-list actors like Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to London for two years to film an erotic psychological&nbsp;thriller on the sly. But from the winter of 1996 to the beginning of 1999, that&rsquo;s exactly what happened.&nbsp;

At the time, Cruise and Kidman were the biggest A-list couple in&nbsp;Hollywood. Every movie Cruise touched turned to box-office gold, and Kidman had established herself as a formidable onscreen presence with mesmerizing roles in films like To Die For and Malice.&nbsp;Kubrick, who hadn&#39;t made a movie since 1987,&nbsp;had disappeared into his estate in London and was rumored to be spending his days re-editing his decades-old films.&nbsp;

Kubrick&rsquo;s work on Eyes Wide Shut wasn&rsquo;t unlike the rest of his oeuvre. As usual, the filming schedule was prolonged and full of monotonous takes that made the actors question their entire reason for being. The distinction, however, was in the specific way he worked with Cruise and Kidman, leveraging their real-life relationship to create a thorny metatextual dimension to the couple they portrayed on screen. With their near-absolute fealty at his disposal, Kubrick probed and prodded the two stars, forging an intimate and volatile dynamic that bled right onto the screen&nbsp;in what would be the legendary director&#39;s final work.

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