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Stanley Kubrick: A Biography (Paperback)

by John Baxter (Author)
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  • Paperback: 440 pages
  • Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc; 1st Carroll & Graf Ed edition (5 Aug 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0786704853
  • ISBN-13: 978-0786704859
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,495,431 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Profiles the life and career of the legendary filmmaker, and includes interviews with people who have known him from childhood to the present.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The late Stanley Kubrick................. From a distance, 19 Mar 1999
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If Stanley Kubrick was a "talented shxt" as Kirk Douglas put it, then Baxter's book is a good stare at it from a distance. The problem with any book about Kubrick is that no-one really knew him. Sure, the myths exist, but trying to find the man inside them is damn near impossible. It feels like Baxter knows this, and therefore details the professional events in Kubrick's life, perhaps to squeeze closed the gap of non-recognition between Kubrick and his audience.

He succeeds quite amicably, bearing in mind that its hard to accurately scrutinize the thought processes of a creature from only its footprints. I am writing this a week after Mr. Kubrick's death, having finished my second reading just over a fortnight ago. I can't help but think that Baxter should issue a revised version of this book in the Summer (1999) including all the information he can glean from Kubricks final piece "Eyes Wide Shut".

Overall then, a good book. Read it if you've never really looked at Kubrick before - but other, more complete posthumous works will follow hereafter that might serve to give the bigger picture.

Keith

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A really well written book about an extraordinary man., 9 Dec 2001
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Kubrick is a fascinating man but probably as difficult to write about as he was to work with because of his reclusive nature. However, John Baxter writes a tremendously gripping but objective account of his life. I found it difficult to put down. The book also includes some interesting photographs of Kubrick directing and some of the sets. If Baxter is to do a second edition I would like to see more content on Eyes Wide Shut and AI.
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4.0 out of 5 stars lurid titillation, 1 Feb 2009
By Brendan O. Clarke "brendoclarke" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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Set in a future Britain, decrepid and reactionary, it cuts close to the bone when it comes to Englishness. Alex is the aesthetic hooligan, a sci-fi Mod, a Regency dandy who stalks the Thamesmead housing estate before going home to the grotesque working class kitsch of his parents. Also the script's use of Burgess's Nadsat is dazzling - and funny: "Well, well, well! Well if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarble, ya eunuch jelly thou!"

The film is stacked with superb performances from younger, hairier versions of talents that went on to become stalwarts of the British acting aristocracy. Directed with assurance and filled with the cynicism, paranoia, visual flair (and lurid titillation) that characterised so much of his work, this is vintage Kubrick and classic cinema.
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3.0 out of 5 stars It's ok
Interesting book, but let down by some pretty basic errors: 'Norman Rossiter' in 2001? Try Leonard Rossiter. The index has Steven Spielberg listed as 'Spielberg, Stephen'. Read more
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