Oscar Directors: Kubrick, Stanley–Vision, Auteur
Kolker: Cinema of Loneliness
It’s been claimed by many critics that with Kubrick, you appreciate and even admire his films, but you don’t love them.
Interest in the possibility of stretching conventional genres: war film, sci-fi, horror.
His resources are literary rather than cinematic
Most of his films come from pre-existing literary works.
They have intellectual complexity associated more with literature and words than with images
Translation from verbal to visual and aural texts
Ability to generate ideas from organization of space
Privacy and seclusion
Perfectionism
Extreme self-confidence
Character that’s phobic and obsessive
Too cold and distant
Kubrick’s isolation took a toll: his later films suffered from cultural airlessness
He took his time, no film between 1980 and 1987, and then another break from 1987-1999