Stanley Kubrick

1h 25m

A racetrack heist told out of order — the film Tarantino openly rebuilt as Reservoir Dogs.

1h 28m

The First World War as institutional murder. Eighty-eight furious minutes.

3h 17m

The one he was hired onto rather than originated, and the only one he disowned.

2h 32m

Nabokov, filmed under the Production Code, which is exactly the problem.

1h 35m

Nuclear annihilation as farce, with Peter Sellers playing three roles.

2h 29m

The one every science fiction film since is measured against. Demands patience.

2h 16m

Withdrawn by Kubrick himself in Britain for nearly thirty years.

3h 5m

Shot by candlelight on NASA lenses. Slow, and increasingly regarded as his best.

2h 26m

King hated it. It is still the most frightening thing on this list.

1h 56m

Two films joined at the middle, and the first half is untouchable.

2h 39m

Finished days before he died, and misread for twenty years.