Stanley Kubbrick Controversy

With hits such as Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, and The Departed, Martin Scorsese has become one of the most influential American film directors and screenwriters of our generation. Born in New York City in 1942, Scorsese has always wanted to work in film. His love of films helped him to create brilliant works of art all throughout his career. His films have won many academy awards and BAFTA awards Through filming and editing techniques to the neorealism aspect of the films and Scorsese's personal influence into his storytelling are what makes him incredibly unique compared to the rest of the world's directors.

What is horror? Webster's Collegiate Dictionary gives the primary definition of horror as "a painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay." It stands to reason then that "horror fiction" is fiction that elicits those emotions in the reader. An example of a horror film is "The Shining", directed by Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick was a well-known director, producer, writer and cinematographer. His films comprised of unique, qualitative scenes that are still memorable but one iconic film in his collection of work is The Shining. Many would disagree and say that The Shining was not his best work and he could have done better yet, there are still those who would say otherwise. This film was not meant to be a “scary pop-up” terror film but

Kevin Smith has make the grueling trek from an unknown, extremely low-budget filmmaker to a well known and respected filmmaker thanks to the

Steven Spielberg is my favorite director form the Film School Generation because of how well diverse is work is from different genres movies to TV series and cartoons. His first film was in 1961 called Escape to Nowhere. He started out at California State University, but dropped out to pursue his entertainment career. He gained notoriety as an uncredited assistant editor and after became the director for a few short films.

(march 27,1957)After serving almost a year in prison Dalton Trumbo writes “The Brave One” under the pseudonym Robert Rich. The movie won an Oscar; Lasky Jr. accepted the award saying that his ‘good friend’ was not able to make it that night.

“Kubrick’s work reveals deeper evidence of the personal involvement which distinguishes the true auteur. His develpment has been remarkably consistent through an apparently heterogeneous range of projects, and each film’s meaning becomes more confidently definable when one places it in relation to its fellows (page 561 paragraph 2).”

In fact, for all of his career he despised the idea of the typical corrupted Hollywood superstar. This all started in 1949, when the film ‘The Men’ directed by Stanley Kramer was released. Brando’s acting debut was in 1944, but five years later, he would start his domination of the silver screen. Two years following his collaboration with Stanley Kramer, Brando joined the onscreen adaptation of, ‘A Streetcar Named Desire.’ Starring alongside Vivien Leigh and Karl Malden, Brando would receive his first Academy Award

Martin Scorsese is an award-winning film director and writer, who has created culture shaping movies over the past six decades. His work is dark, gritty, real, and sometimes misinterpreted, which lead to a large scandal in the 1980’s. However, its hard to deny the impact this director has left on American culture. Martin Scorsese is an inspirational for his film directing and producing, screenwriting, and his effect on American culture. Martin Scorsese began his career as a producer and director in 1967, with his first major film, “Who’s That Knocking at My Door”.

It is a mystery thriller film, directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie is written by John Michael Hayes and the stars in the film are James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. The release date was September 1, 1954. Music by Franz Waxman and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The setting is in an urban apartment complex where there

In 1971 he took action and directed his first film, which was a thriller called “Play Misty for Me”. Not only did Clint direct this movie, he also starred in the leading role of the movie. Clint Eastwood went on to create the immensely popular “Dirty Harry” series, which acted as a domino effect as over 17 years he created

The film was directed by Stanly Kubrick. Stanly was born in New York in 1928. Stanley is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. So determined to produce perfection, he often demanded up to 70 or 80 retakes

such directors are, as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, James Cameron, Woody Allen, and Terry Gilliam, The Coen brothers, Ridley Scott, and George A. Romero, they have all said that Kubrick was a source of inspiration, and with Spielberg’s collaboration’s. Steven Spielberg said that “nobody could shoot a picture better in history", and that Kubrick told stories in a way antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories". Writing in the introduction to a recent edition of Michel Ciment's Kubrick, film director Martin Scorsese notes “most of Kubrick's films were very misunderstood and under-appreciated when first released, only then to be considered great masterpieces later then

Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai" (1954) is not only a great film in its own right, but the source of a genre that would flow through the rest of the century. The critic Michael Jeck suggests that this was the first film in which a team is assembled to carry out a mission-an idea which gave birth to its direct Hollywood remake, "The Magnificent Seven," as well as "The Guns of Navarone." "The Dirty Dozen," and countless later war, heist and caper movies. Since Kurosawa's samurai adventure "Yojimbo" (1960) was remade as "A Fistful of Dollars" and essentially created the spaghetti Western, and since this movie and Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" inspired George Lucas' "Star Wars" series, it could be argued that this greatest of filmmakers gave employment to action heroes for the next 50 years, just as a fallout from his primary purpose.

Beeson's latest film earned that production budget largely through crowd-sourcing and the writer/director's own money. It has been reported that this is the most expensive

Based on Stephen King’s horror novel of the same name, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining features hallways filled with butchered daughters, and their guts and blood splashed down the hall. Horror and realism fuel Kubrick’s notoriously disturbing films and The Shining stands clear-cut amongst them. Although in the case of this movie, Kubrick shifts emphasis from visual horror to psychological fear and instills mounting dread from the sequence of disturbing events. Kubrick states, “one of the things that horror stories can do is show us the archetypes of the unconscious; we can see the dark side without having to confront it directly.” Never falling flat, The Shining provides a psychological horror masterpiece complete with brilliant acting, tight camera angles, haunting score, and unanswered questions.