Stanley Kubrick was nothing if not a perfectionist: he would spend months, even years, researching every detail of his subjects in search for authenticity; then he would write, direct and edit his movies.
"I mark every frame, select each segment and have everything done exactly the way I want it," he once said.
Twenty years after Kubrick's death, an exhibition in London dips into his strange, beloved movie world. It is both a masterful tribute to an enduring auteur of postwar cinema and a glimpse into his creative mind.
The show at the Design Museum features posters, clapperboards, cameras, lenses qne clips as well as film props: an ape costume from the opening for 2001: A Space Odyssey; the typewriter of the haunted writer played by Jack Nicholson in The Shining; an outfit of one of the sociopathic youths rampaging through A Clockwork Orange; the "Born to Kill" helmet in Full Metal Jacket.
But what makes the exhibition stand out is the material from Kubrick’s own personal archive, meticulously kept by a man who never threw anything away. The correspondence, the movie schedules, the storyboards, the annotations on sketches submitted for his approval - it all speaks of Kubrick’s scrupulous, some say obsessive, attention to detail.
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