peter martin

krispayne:

kapi:

This is one of the most beautifully shot scenes ever.

Stanley Kubrick was a master of natural light.

Kubrick was actually the master of creating light. He rarely used natural light, he hated shooting on location and preferred to own all of his own camera’s, lights, etc.  Most of the scenes which most people think are natural light are Kubrick’s genius at work: it’s all fake.

For probably more Kubrick than you’d ever want to know, check out The Kubrick Site.  I basically spent college on that website.  Also, watching his movies over and over again, and checking out his early photographic work for LOOK and various other magazines you start to learn that this kid was born with an amazing and keen understanding of human emotion, light and creating drama. Kubrick was, and is, a photographic genius.

Wow, great link. My favorite Kubrickism is his whole theory that film separates itself from other art forms via the editing/cutting process. Screenwriting is born from literature, cinematography from photography, acting from the theater, scoring from music, etc…but great film is devoted to the perfectionist ideal of collecting hundreds of hours of material and painstakingly editing it into a cohesive vision.