Stanley Kubrick, who died in 1999, is considered as a genius film director. He made only 13 films in 46 years, mainly because of his perfectionism and because of his insistence to gather a very high level of details before beginning to make the film. However, he was also the writer and the producer of…
Directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980, The Shining is a horror film shot during the winter in a hotel isolated in the mountains of Oregon. Two sequences are located in a maze. Kubrick uses a map and a scale model of the maze in one of these sequences. Réalisé en 1980 par Stanley Kubrick, Shining…
My favorite war room map is the one that appears in Dr. Strangelove (Dir. Stanley Kubrick 1964). In this scene the paranoic and anticommunist US general Turdgison (hilarious George C Scott) is using the map (« the big board ») as the irrefutable proof that the russian president « Dimitri » is lying when he says that one B52…
(e)space & fiction 