Midnight With the Stars and You

The BBC aired a documentary called Stanley Kubrick's Boxes about a guy rummaging through—you guessed it (available here, here, here, here, and here).


(skip to about 5:20 for some good stuff)

Elsewhere, my two favorite revelations:

Kubrick was a prophetic about the ultimate fate of Eastern Europe Communism:

Praise was lavished on Kubrick for The Shining. Like so many of his other films, this fast became a cult classic. Business was always business, however. In response to a request by Frank Pierce on October 26, 1987, to sell the country rights to The Shining to Hungarofilm for $12,000 for five years Kubrick write NO! in gigantic letters by the side of this message and sent the following cable.

October, 1987
To Frank Pierce
Dear Frank, I think you know that I have always maintained that it is a very great mistake to virtually give away films to Socialist countries when at some point in the future they are likely to be viable commercial markets. Obviously I haven't changed my views about this. Stanley.

And Stanley was a Barbra fan:

August 10, 1964
To Sidney Chaplin (Streisand's co-star in the stage production)

Barbra is the end! None of the praise she has received has sufficiently described her genius. I won't attempt to here but I do have one observation. I think it's true only the most magical actors in the world can overdo and make it believable and tasteful. She belongs in that group.

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