Stanley Kubrick 1928-1999

Stanley Kubrick, famed film director, producer and screenwriter, passed away Sunday, March 6, at the age of 70. He was found in his home, north of London, apparently dead of natural causes.

Kubrick directed 17 major motion pictures including the science fiction classics 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and ``DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB.

Althouh Kubrick received several Oscar nominations for his writing and directing, his only Oscar was for designing and directing the special effects for 2001.

His movie EYES WIDE SHUT, staring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, is scheduled for release in July of this year.

Rememberances:

James Gunn-
The death of Stanley Kubrick is a loss to the science-fiction community. Not only did he appreciate science fiction, he saw in it the potential for saying something significant about the human condition. I think, as I have long maintained, that THINGS TO COME and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY are the two best SF films every produced (I used to say they were the _only_ good SF films ever made), and 2001 proved to a skeptical Hollywood that science-fiction was more than B-film material. SF on film would never be the same.

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