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Stanley Kubrick

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Paths Of Glory
4. Barry Lyndon
5. The Shining
6. Spartacus
7. 2001
8. Eyes Wide Shut
9. The Killing
10. A Clockwork Orange
11. Lolita
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I've only seen Barry Lyndon once, if you can believe it. There's another one I really need to see again. It seems to have really risen in the popular estimation over the last decade
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Nothing. A fantastic director.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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yeah, i'd stick barry lyndon higher & jacket much lower. the problem here is kubrick was god-tier the whole way
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Malloy wrote:yeah, i'd stick barry lyndon higher & jacket much lower. the problem here is kubrick was god-tier the whole way
aw huh

Outside of 2001 being my personal favorite, I just have no idea how to rank his work. It's all fucking brilliant. At least the stuff I've seen.
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Im such a big fan of Eyes Wide Shut.
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VinylGuy wrote:Im such a big fan of Eyes Wide Shut.
Me too. I *think* I'd probably put it at #2 on my list. I think...
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Either that or The Shining?

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epilogue wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:Im such a big fan of Eyes Wide Shut.
Me too. I *think* I'd probably put it at #2 on my list. I think...
yeah, me too. The only one i saw in the theatre when it premiered. I was what...16? I also saw The Shining a few years ago, 35mm copy. Beautiful work.
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VinylGuy wrote:Im such a big fan of Eyes Wide Shut.
Me too. I *think* I'd probably put it at #2 on my list. I think...
yeah, me too. The only one i saw in the theatre when it premiered. I was what...16? I also saw The Shining a few years ago, 35mm copy. Beautiful work.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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The Thing
They Live
Big Trouble in Little China
The Fog
Prince of Darkness
Assault on Precinct 13
Escape from New York
In the Mouth of Madness
Halloween
Dark Star
Christine
Starman

Not ranking the rest because it’s all varying degrees of forgettable or straight up terrible
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Any list without Vampires is incomplete.
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Vampires rules.
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It really doesn’t
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Vampires is fuuuucking awesome
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I’ve seen it two or three times and remember James Woods in a trench coat in the desert, and that’s about it. I’ll give it another shot at some point, maybe it’ll take a place above Dark Star or Christine
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