Spaces between the Stars
David Bromwich: Kubrick Does It Himself, 26 September 2024
Kubrick: An Odyssey
by Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams.
Faber, 649 pp., £25, January,978 0 571 37036 8 Show More
by Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams.
Faber, 649 pp., £25, January,
“... human computer. Kubrick would ask for, and get, a similar approximation of non-personality from Ryan O’Neal in Barry Lyndon. But the truth is that his relationship to the very idea of actors was bipolar. Should one use them as mannequins (Robert Bresson’s word for his practice with non-actors), or find good ones and let them tear up the scenery? The ... ”