Stanley Kubrick

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/19/2023
  

  We Miss Dr. Strangelove now that We've Learned to Stop Worrying and Forget the Bomb

  by Andrew Bacevich

  Kubrick's classic film forced viewers to confront the possibility that the controls of the world's nuclear weapons were held by fools, fanatics, and outright lunatics. Today, it's too easy to ignore it altogether. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  9/1/2020
  

  Stanley Kubrick’s Calculated Rebellion

  A new biography of the acclaimed director focuses on his thematic obsession with rebellion and how it suceeds or fails.

• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3-25-13
  

  James Hughes: Stanley Kubrick's Unmade Film About Jazz in the Third Reich

  James Hughes is a Chicago-based writer and editor who has contributed to Slate, The Believer, Wax Poetics, and The Village Voice. For a decade, he was an editor and publisher of Stop Smiling magazine and its book imprint. In 1985, Stanley Kubrick was handed a book on the survival of jazz in Nazi-occupied Europe. A snapshot of a Luftwaffe officer casually posing among black, Gypsy, and Jewish musicians outside a Paris nightclub caught his eye. It looked like something out of Dr. Strangelove, he said. He'd long wanted to bring World War II to the screen, and perhaps this photograph offered a way in."Stanley's famous saying was that it was easier to fall in love than find a good story," says Tony Frewin, Kubrick's longtime assistant (and, for the purpose of disclosure, an editor-at-large at my former magazine, Stop Smiling). "He was limitlessly interested in anything to do with Nazis and desperately wanted to make a film on the subject."