‘Exploring’ features the filmographies of filmmakers that I’ve completed and celebrates them on the week of their birthdays.

‘Exploring’ features the filmographies of filmmakers that I’ve completed and celebrates them on the week of their birthdays.
Kubrick’s pitch-black Cold War comedy is absolute gold, intelligently poking fun at the sheer absurdity of nuclear war and rhetoric.
The duality of being a U.S. Marine—to train to kill but also be expendable—is captured with cold, hard irony in Kubrick’s clinical take on the (Vietnam) war movie.
With incredible restraint and backed by all-round excellent performances, Kubrick’s exploration into a revolting form of sexual obsession is remarkable for its implicit portrayal of an erotic relationship between a (step)father and his daughter.
Kubrick’s much-maligned first feature, while a sketchy exercise, is still (barely) watchable as it ruminates about war and existence, albeit in too self-important and vacuous a manner.
Continue reading →A masterpiece of baroque horror cinema that continues to haunt through tone, technique and characterisation.
Continue reading →Kubrick’s final film is a calculated psychosexual trip filled with paranoia, moral depravity and sexual fantasies and excesses.
Continue reading →Kubrick’s understated and underrated costume-drama is, to me, his greatest accomplishment, and possibly the most beautiful period film ever made.
Continue reading →Kubrick’s dystopian masterpiece frustrates, angers, provokes, and ultimately floors you in ways unlike that of other great films.
Continue reading →Kubrick’s most influential film still remains way ahead of its time and is arguably the greatest sci-fi film ever made.