From ‘Lolita’ to ‘A Clockwork Orange’: Stanley Kubrick’s films, from worst to best

We’re still a long way from Stanley Kubrick’s most celebrated heights, but “Kiss of the Killer” would reign as one of the best films in the lists of a good handful of filmmakers who still dream of creating such a comprehensive, thought-provoking, and inspiring body of work. Film noir of the highest level which, accompanied by a cast in a perpetual state of grace, incessantly hypnotizes for just over sixty minutes that pass like the most satisfying of sighs.

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Even those of us who aren’t particularly keen on “Redphone?” Let’s fly to Moscow’, we have to accept that there are two elements that fully justify its success, validity and importance within Stanley Kubrick’s professional career: the direction of the director, as free as inspired, radiant and elegant at the same time, and the stellar performance of an excellent Peter Sellers. Pillars on which a film is based that time continues to indicate as a tremendous cult classic, as well as one of the most brilliant satires of all time.

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‘Barry Lyndon’ has many virtues, but none more outstanding than the direction of a full-blown Stanley Kubrick, constantly inspired and capable of composing such captivating images as the one illustrated in this text. A challenging and demanding film with the viewer, yes, but also full of satisfactions. And all the credit, I insist, belongs to a genius who has rarely in his career been so inspired to create such beautiful cinematic moments.

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Beyond its controversial plot, already present in Vladimir Nabokov’s brutal novel, Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita” is a cinema lesson full of discoveries, brilliant ideas and management of visual language within the exclusive reach of giants. And it is that, from start to finish, the director is capable of extracting poetry from the smallest detail, causing a sensory experience that is never forgotten. It may not be one of his most rounded and compact works, but, in terms of directing, it is a work that ranks in the field of honors.

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Only for its pure essence of adventure cinema and a last half hour worthy of the most clamorous ovations, “Spartacus” has already earned its place in the history of the seventh art, but the fact is that, in addition, the film masterfully directed by Stanley Kubrick has retained another lot of virtues in its nearly 200 minutes. Epic, emotion, intrigue, unforgettable scenes and an imperial Kirk Douglas are just some of the other pieces that complete a classic as monumental as it is essential.

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Everything in ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, the posthumous work of that legendary giant named Stanley Kubrick, is provocative and hypnotic, suggestive and suffocating, elegant and disturbing. Main characteristics of a misunderstood masterpiece which, over the years, has happily acquired its rightful status, that of yet another classic in a career full of incomparable works.

A goal that would have been completely impossible without the leap into the void, the total dedication of its two protagonists, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, a real couple during the filming of the film, capable of carrying the weight of history on their naked bodies. Interpretations close to the skin that pierce the bones.

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‘Full Metal Jacket’ may not be among the most complete works of Stanley Kubrick’s career due to a second half not up to par flawless first hour of shooting, but that doesn’t stop it from being highlighted as one of the most important war films in the history of cinema. A proposal in which the director has done a particularly successful job with the screenplay that adapted Gustav Hasford’s novel, balancing its comic and dramatic elements to bring us from laughter to our stomachs in a matter of minutes. Another highlight in the director’s career.

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welcome and welcome to one of the most hypnotic horror movies ever. Welcome and welcome to “The Shining”. Welcome to a masterpiece capable of making up for its shortcomings, which exist, with some images with an indisputable ability to remain forever etched in our memory and with a dazzling direction by Stanley Kubrick in his progressive embrace of excess. You already know: this is an essential film.

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Beyond its indisputable social impact, ‘A Clockwork Orange’ was a dazzling peak in Stanley Kubrick’s career, a total demonstration of accepted risk, artistic courage and, ultimately, historic achievement. Adapted from the novel by Anthony Burgess, this prodigy is cinema in its purest form that brims and thrills with equal ease and force. A roller coaster of emotions, images and stimuli which, far from being undoubtedly aged, resonate with an echo that strikes with the force of the first day. An undeniable masterpiece.

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And Stanley Kubrick delivers his first masterpiece. After two interesting proposals, ‘Fear and desire (Fear and desire)’ and ‘Kiss of the killer’, the director signs ‘Perfect heist’, a prodigious thriller that works like a charm on each of the levels. From its prodigious staging to a final climax that takes your breath away and applauds at the same time, not forgetting a screenplay of real gold, ‘Perfect heist’ gives us an opportunity to enjoy the transformation of a promising director into a teacher. And this, my friends, is priceless.

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A film that has an ellipsis of ESA (bone/space), has already earned a place in this special on its own merits. But is that, in addition, “2001: A Space Odyssey” is, in all likelihood, the most profound, magnetic and powerful science fiction film in the history of cinema. Stanley Kubrick, by adapting an a priori unadaptable short novel signed by Arthur C. Clarke, breathed a renewed and profoundly innovative air to a genre that always seemed to play in a lower range, waging constant battles against prejudice and indifference of the general public.

An intellectual proposition that treated the viewer as an intelligent being, provoking him and giving him the power of storytelling, allowing him to slowly but surely enter an authentic recital of narrative and visual wisdom. Poetry in motion, total influence. ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’: a before and an after.

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Of course, ‘Perfect Heist’ was already an excellent work, but it’s just that, just one year later, Stanley Kubrick produced what may well be the best war film in history, as well as one of his most indisputable creative peaks: ‘Senderos of glory’. A tape shot by the most overwhelming excellence, with wonderful interpretations and a devastating melancholy that ends up exploding in an unforgettable epilogue. One last lump in the throat that crowns one of the best films in the history of the seventh art. As well as.

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