Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Name: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2001-02-17
Duration: 141 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Tom Cruise, Barbara Kroner, Steven Marcus, Alexander Singer, Paul Mazursky

2001·Documentary·2h 21m

7.4

★

With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.

Directed by Jan Harlan

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Cast

Tom Cruise

Self - Actor & Film Producer / Narrator

Steven Marcus

Self - Professor, Stanley Kubrick's Schoolfriend

Paul Mazursky

Self

Jack Nicholson

Self

Shelley Duvall

Self

Matthew Modine

Self

Sydney Pollack

Self

Christiane Kubrick

Self

Richard Schickel

Self

Leon Vitali

Self

Douglas Trumbull

Self

Martin Scorsese

Self

Crew

Jan Harlan

Director

Jan Harlan

Producer

Popular Reviews

39 reviews

Zack Dorsch

9.0★ · 02/05/26

Smarter than Einstein btw

Emil Wulff

8.0★ · 12/15/25

My king

Nathan

8.0★ · 03/22/24

Absolute genius.

I find Kubrick's diversity to be one of the things that really set him apart. He could do sci-fi, romance, horror, war, and even combined two or three of those genres in one film, and it all worked.

As a documentary this is pretty standard, but takes its time covering Kubrick's work, not trying to rush through parts to get it over with.

Spencer

7.7★ · 06/05/23

As an aspiring director, I adore this

Manny

“Still fooling them”