Stanley Kubrick
Best Movie Directors • Stanley Kubrick
Many critics and filmmakers consider Stanley Kubrick to be the best movie director of all time.
Why?
He has a point of view that he uses his medium to express.
There is an obvious command of the tools necessary to manifest these films.
Kubrick’s fascination with cameras and lenses, along with his background in photography, makes his composition, framing, and lighting second to none.
There’s not much escapism in Kubrick’s movies, but, on the other hand, even if they project moral ideas and ethical values, they are never message or agit-prop films per se.
He offers humor at the absurdity of human behavior, be it in historical pieces (Barry Lyndon), or contemporary satire (Dr. Strangelove)
In a very small output, only 13 films over 46 years, Stanley Kubrick perfected the art of cinema, and made masterpieces in every genre he had tackled.
Kubrick’s pioneeringly inventive 2001: A Space Odyssey is essentially the story of life.
The narrative depicts several different time periods, but for the most part it focuses on the future. It’s a time, wher the human race has discovered something mysterious buried within the Moon, and now they’re in search of its origins.
The HAL 9000 is the film’s antagonist, an AI entity with desires of its own.
Back in 1968, the movie was prophetic: As AI is proving itself to be right now, that’s a problem.
