2001: A COLD DESCENT – by Mark Crispin Miller [Sight and Sound]
Stanley Kubrick’s futuristic 1968 epic ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ still has the power to startle. Mark Crispin Miller re-examines its subversive vision of power, sex and isolation
Stanley Kubrick’s futuristic 1968 epic ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ still has the power to startle. Mark Crispin Miller re-examines its subversive vision of power, sex and isolation
John Boorman’s cult film Deliverance is a rape-revenge movie with a difference. Its haunting power lies in what it tries not to show. by Linda Ruth Williams
Susan Sontag reviews Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona” for Sight and Sound magazine
The Shining reminds us how far the cinema has come and how much it has stayed the same. It shines bits of an enigmatic film future which in the last image turns out to be a still from the past. There is no immutable order of experience when the past becomes a picture of what might have been.
Barry Lyndon (1976) movie review by Penelope Houston, Sight and Sound, Spring 1976
Spartacus had a powerful star and a politically committed screenwriter. So how did Stanley Kubrick put his personal stamp on the film, asks Henry Sheehan?
Review of Stanley Kubrick’s movie “Paths of Glory”, published by Sight and Sound in 1957
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