VÖ-Datum: 4. November 2014
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This 10-disc Blu-ray collection includes eight
Kubrick classics as well as two newly-produced documentaries:
Kubrick Remembered and Stanley Kubrick in Focus, plus three
additional documentaries: Once Upon a Time…’A Clockwork Orange’,
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, and O Lucky Malcolm!Also
included will be a new 78-page hardcover photo book using film
archive photographs.
Films in the collection will be Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove
(1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971),
Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987)
and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick Remembered offers a new look
into the Kubrick archives, with special appearances by the
director’s wife, Christiane Kubrick, as well as never-seen footage
of Stanley’s works, his house and his film production facilities.
Stanley Kubrickin Focus presents such directors as Steven
Spielberg, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, William Friedkin and
Martin Scorsese relating how Kubrick’s directorial style influenced
them.
Disc 1 – Lolita (1962)
Humbert (James Mason), 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.
Disc 2 – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb(1964)
The cold war satire is a chilling dark comedy about a psychotic Air
Force General unleashing an ingenious, foolproof and irrevocable
scheme sending bombers to attack Russia, as the U.S. President
works with the Soviet premier in a desperate effort to save the
world. The film stars Peter Sellers, in multiple roles, as well as
George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden.
Disc 3 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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. The director (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.
Disc 4 – A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Causing major controversy when first released, the film garnered
four Academy Award® nominations – Best Picture, Best Director, Best
Film Editing and Best Screenplay. The film also introduced into
popular culture the concept of “ultra-violence,” as singing,
tap-dancing, 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.
Disc 5 – 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 (Marisa Berenson).
He takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in England with wealth
and power beyond his wildest dreams, before eventually falling into
ruin.
Disc 6 – 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).
Disc 7 – Full 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.
Disc 8 – 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.
Disc 9 – Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures / O’ Lucky
Malcolm!
· Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Stanley Kubrick’s career comes into sharp focus in the compelling
and revealing documentary narrated by Tom Cruise. A detailed
picture of the cinematic legend emerges via fascinating footage of
Kubrick in his early years, at work on film sets and at home, and
via candid commentary from collaborators, colleagues, and family.
From the music he chose to the cameras he used to his unrealized
projects (including A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the much-
anticipated Kubrick project directed by Steven Spielberg), you’ll
uncover a treasure trove of film-buff information. Drawing on
Kubrick archives, it offers for the first time a truly intimate
portrait of his life among family and friends. There has never been
a more essential visual companion piece to the man and his
movies.
· O’ Lucky Malcolm!
Documentary about the life and career of actor Malcolm McDowell
produced and directed by Jan Harlan.
Disc 10 – Kubrick Remembered / Stanley Kubrick in Focus / Once Upon
a Time … A Clockwork Orange
· Kubrick Remembered – NEW
A new look into the Kubrick archives, with special appearances by
Christiane Kubrick. Featuring never-seen footage of Stanley’s
works, his house and his film production facilities.
· Stanley Kubrick in Focus – NEW to Blu-ray
Spielberg, Soderbergh, Stone, Friedkin, Scorsese and others tell
how Kubrick’s directorial style influenced them and how his unique
style was developed.
· Once Upon a Time … A Clockwork Orange – NEW to the U.S.
Co-written by critic Michel Ciment and featuring interviews with a
psychologist and a sociologist, Once Upon a Time … ‘A Clockwork
Orange’ is a wonderfully unusual cine-documentary that focuses more
on the titular movie’s historical context and philosophy than on
its production and reception. The documentary benefits from
archival audio commentary by the late Stanley Kubrick, who offers
his rationale for making the controversial, devilishly prescient
proto-punk cult classic: “Better to reign in hell than serve in
heaven.”