His favourite films include, yes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Citizen Cane and Metropolis, but also…1992 basketball comedy White Men Can’t Jump.
Scraped from interviews with Kubrick’s friends, family and colleagues along with the man himself, it includes (in no particular order): Citizen Kane, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, Roxie Hart, Hell’s Angels, An American Werewolf in London, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Metropolis, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Abigail’s Party, Roger & Me and oddly enough Mary Poppins, White Men Can’t Jump, Modern Romance and The Jerk.
Stanley Kubrick might be regarded as a visionary, a master, a savant, but he was no elitist.
The movie forms part of a list compiled by Criterion in 2012 but doing the rounds again this week, and it’s pretty eclectic.