One of the first works of visionary Stanley Kubrick, The Killing is everything that made him famous: aesthetically interesting, subdued, and stylized. While his later works such as Eyes Wide Shut are a bit too overthought for John DiLeo’s taste, this film captures the genius of Kubrick in its clean following of Johnny Clay’s [...]

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When the awesomely revered director Stanley Kubrick died in 1999, months before the release of his long-awaited Eyes Wide Shut, he was as famous for his obsessively long shooting schedules, the increasing number of years between his films, and his reclusive lifestyle in London as he was as the maker of classic films. The Bronx-born [...]

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