My first real attempt at understanding the brilliance that was Stanley Kubrick came in my freshman year of college, when I wrote a research paper on 2001: A Space Odyssey for an English class. After all that work, I only received a B and found myself more confused than ever. But there it was – …
It’s both perfectly fitting and a darkly wry punchline that the last word in Stanley Kubrick’s last film is “fuck,” utilized in its most literal definition. The word is spoken, in both direct and slightly imploring fashion, by Alice Harford (Nicole Kidman) to her husband Bill (Tom Cruise) at the end of the still slightly …
6- The 10th Victim (La Decima vittima) (The Tenth Victim) Directed by Elio Petri Written by Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Ennio Flaiano and Elio Petri Italy,1965 The 10th Victim was the first film to offer up the concept of a TV show wherein people hunt and kill one another for sport and to expand the …