Stanley Kubrick Used A Less-Than-Honest Contract Trick To Free His Schedule For The Shining

Dec 25 2022 by /Film

 

Stanley Kubrick is remembered in many ways. He was a visionary genius — a pioneering auteur whose filmography stands as one of the finest in the history of filmmaking. He was also a bit weird. Very weird, at times. The notoriously eccentric director would often be the target of rumors, such as when the press claimed he wore a football helmet on his drive to the set of "Full Metal Jacket" and wouldn't let his driver go over 30mph. In response, he told Rolling Stone "I cannot dispel the...

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