Stanley Kubrick Articles

BAFTA Fellowship: Few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood, Steven Spielberg Before Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder [Photo: Laurence Olivier] 1971 Alfred Hitchcock 1972 Freddie Young 1973 Grace Wyndham Goldie 1974 David Lean 1975 Jacques Cousteau 1976 Charles Chaplin, Laurence Olivier 1977 Denis Forman 1978 Fred Zinnemann 1979 Lew Grade, Huw Wheldon 1980 David Attenborough, John Huston 1981 Abel Gance, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1982 Andrzej [...]

Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho set The first recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Fellowship, "awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image," was director Alfred Hitchcock in 1971. Dozens of film, television, and assorted media personalities have become BAFTA Fellows since then, though the pattern here — as most elsewhere — is that achievements by men [...]

Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life Terrence Malick's 1950s-set family drama The Tree of Life, which stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain, was perhaps the most eagerly anticipated film at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. It would be inaccurate to say that the enormous amount of interest from cinema aficionados had to do solely with the fact that Malick hasn't made a movie [...]

Manohla Dargis on Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void, in the New York Times: "Although he remains dedicated to shaking up viewer s, to getting under their skins and into their nervous systems, Mr. Noé [above, top photo] has mellowed. Despite its unpromising title, Enter the Void, his entry at this year’s festival, is an exceptional work, though less because of its story, acting or any [...]