This 10-disc Blu-ray collection includes eight Kubrick classics as well as two newly-produced documentaries: Kubrick Remembered and Stanley Kubrick in Focus, plus three additional documentaries: Once Upon a Time…’A Clockwork Orange’, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, and O Lucky Malcolm! Also included will be a new 78-page hardcover photo book using film archive photographs.
Films in the collection will be Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick Remembered offers a new look into the Kubrick archives, with special appearances by the director’s wife, Christiane Kubrick, as well as never-seen footage of Stanley’s works, his house and his film production facilities. Stanley Kubrickin Focus presents such directors as Steven Spielberg, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, William Friedkin and Martin Scorsese relating how Kubrick’s directorial style influenced them.
Disc 1 – Lolita (1962)
Humbert (James Mason), a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman's 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love, but whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious trickster named Clare Quilty.
Disc 2 – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The cold war satire is a chilling dark comedy about a psychotic Air Force General unleashing an ingenious, foolproof and irrevocable scheme sending bombers to attack Russia, as the U.S. President works with the Soviet premier in a desperate effort to save the world. The film stars Peter Sellers, in multiple roles, as well as George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden.
Disc 3 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Kubrick’s dazzling Academy Award®-winning achievement (Special Visual Effects) is an allegorical puzzle on the evolution of man and a compelling drama of man vs. machine. Featuring a stunning meld of music and motion, the film was also Oscar®-nominated for Best Director, Art Direction and Writing. The director (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits the prehistoric age-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.
Disc 4 – A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Causing major controversy when first released, the film garnered four Academy Award® nominations – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Screenplay. The film also introduced into popular culture the concept of “ultra-violence,” as singing, tap-dancing, derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a “good time” – at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Kubrick’s future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess’ novel.
Disc 5 – Barry Lyndon (1975)
Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal) is a young, roguish Irishman who's determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army and fighting in Europe’s Seven Years War, Barry deserts, then joins the Prussian army, gets promoted to the rank of a spy, and becomes a pupil to a Chevalier and con artist/gambler. Barry then lies, dupes, duels and seduces his way up the social ladder, entering into a lustful but loveless marriage to a wealthy countess named Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson). He takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in England with wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams, before eventually falling into ruin.
Disc 6 – The Shining (1980)
From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre. The Shining is the director’s epic tale of a man in a snowbound hotel descending into murderous delusions. In a signature role, Jack Nicholson (“Heeeere’s Johnny!”) stars as Jack Torrance, who’s come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd).
Disc 7 – Full Metal Jacket (1987)
A superb ensemble falls in for Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers. The scathing indictment of a film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. ‘Joker’ (Matthew Modine), ‘Animal Mother’ (Adam Baldwin), ‘Gomer’ (Vincent D’Onofrio), ‘Eightball’ (Dorian Harewood) and ‘Cowboy’ (Arliss Howard) are some of the Marine recruits experiencing boot-camp hell under the punishing command of the foul-mouthed Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermy). The action is savage, the story unsparing, and the dialogue is spiked with scathing humor.
Disc 8 – Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Kubrick’s daring and controversial last film is a bracing psychosexual journey through a haunting dreamscape, a riveting suspense tale and a career milestone for stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cruise plays a doctor who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage – and may ensnare him in a murder mystery – after his wife’s (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. His graceful tracking shots, rich colors and startling images are some of the bravura traits that show Kubrick as a filmmaker for the ages.
Disc 9 – Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures / O’ Lucky Malcolm!
· Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Stanley Kubrick’s career comes into sharp focus in the compelling and revealing documentary narrated by Tom Cruise. A detailed picture of the cinematic legend emerges via fascinating footage of Kubrick in his early years, at work on film sets and at home, and via candid commentary from collaborators, colleagues, and family. From the music he chose to the cameras he used to his unrealized projects (including A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the much- anticipated Kubrick project directed by Steven Spielberg), you’ll uncover a treasure trove of film-buff information. Drawing on Kubrick archives, it offers for the first time a truly intimate portrait of his life among family and friends. There has never been a more essential visual companion piece to the man and his movies.
· O’ Lucky Malcolm!
Documentary about the life and career of actor Malcolm McDowell produced and directed by Jan Harlan.
Disc 10 – Kubrick Remembered / Stanley Kubrick in Focus / Once Upon a Time … A Clockwork Orange
· Kubrick Remembered – NEW
A new look into the Kubrick archives, with special appearances by Christiane Kubrick. Featuring never-seen footage of Stanley’s works, his house and his film production facilities.
· Stanley Kubrick in Focus – NEW to Blu-ray
Spielberg, Soderbergh, Stone, Friedkin, Scorsese and others tell how Kubrick’s directorial style influenced them and how his unique style was developed.
· Once Upon a Time … A Clockwork Orange – NEW to the U.S.
Co-written by critic Michel Ciment and featuring interviews with a psychologist and a sociologist, Once Upon a Time … ‘A Clockwork Orange’ is a wonderfully unusual cine-documentary that focuses more on the titular movie’s historical context and philosophy than on its production and reception. The documentary benefits from archival audio commentary by the late Stanley Kubrick, who offers his rationale for making the controversial, devilishly prescient proto-punk cult classic: “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”
Artwork is um...different. Kind of wish they chose a different name than "Masterpiece Collection" since that's already strongly linked to the Hitchcock set.
It would have been awesome if they could have gotten his movies from the other studios/labels that have them. So The Killing/Killer's Kiss, and Paths of Glory from Criterion, and Fear and Desire/The Seafarers from Kino.
I'll wait for now. The press release doesn't mention the Stanley Kubrick's Boxes documentary which was included on a separate disc when Full Metal Jacket was re-released.
I'll wait for now. The press release doesn't mention the Stanley Kubrick's Boxes documentary which was included on a separate disc when Full Metal Jacket was re-released.
I was wondering about that too. It doesn't appear to be included. They definitely could have fit it on that new bonus disc.
I LOVE love LOVE love LOVE the font and colors used for this Box set, however aside from a couple new extras and 99% sure we are just getting the same BLU discs / transfers as released already. Just seems like another missed opportunity for new transfers / encodes for 2001 and Clockwork Orange. New transfers that have not been released ok BLU. :-(
But if you don't own any or just a few of the titles this set at the current preorder price is very enticing. And again WB I love the Retro font and colors. Very nice.
i like how its doesn't include all the same films from the other kubrick box set
that to me is a good thing. it doesn't include spartacus and it looks likes it has enough differences where the old out of print box set will hold its value instead of just reprinting that
the price is high for the new set considering amazon had the older set when it was still in print for 59.99 new as a deal of the day or week previous
I owned the old 9-movie SK collection but sold it in favor of individual releases. Many of these films are in need of proper remastering or their own special editions. The new documentaries sound nice, but it's hard to get too excited over what's essentially a repackaging.
Seriously what is Warner's fascination with long, rectangular box sets?
Individual UCE's are stupid at this point, but I'm fine with a rectangular box for a 10 movie collection...
Eyes Wide Shut needs a new transfer badly. Clockwork Orange supposedly already has a 4K ready to go(I think?). Sadly, I doubt this box is anything new except the two new features.
Still, I'll keep an eye out for this to hit my ridiculously low price target. I think the only film I don't have on blu is Lolita, I wouldn't mind consolidating them all into one set for a cheap enough price.
I LOVE love LOVE love LOVE the font and colors used for this Box set, however aside from a couple new extras and 99% sure we are just getting the same BLU discs / transfers as released already. Just seems like another missed opportunity for new transfers / encodes for 2001 and Clockwork Orange. New transfers that have not been released ok BLU. :-(
But if you don't own any or just a few of the titles this set at the current preorder price is very enticing. And again WB I love the Retro font and colors. Very nice.
I think it's Eyes Wide Shut that needs a new transfer most desparately. (edit*)
2001 Space Odyssey blew me away years ago, but looking at that bitrate it could at least use a new encode. I'm pretty sure it's already a 4K or even 8K scan though. Wonder if they'll at least bring all the video/audio codes up to spec for films that have VC-1 and low bitrates.
Unfortunately the answer is probably... NO.
*edit: forgot about Spartacus' shameful transfer. That was the Kubrick that actually needs a remaster the most, odd that they licensed it from Universal for the last set, but it's deleted from this one. Maybe this is not a coincidence though, and a new master is in the works but it's being used elsewhere - (i.e. licensed from Universal to Criterion). We can only hope.
Last edited by AgentOrange; 07-29-2014 at 03:36 AM.
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