Burbank, Calif. August
6, 2007 – On October 23, Warner Home Video will launch the first in their new
series featuring influential films from some of history’s greatest directors.
Warner Home Video
Director’s Series: Stanley Kubrick is a new six-film, 10-disc
widescreen and newly-remastered collection that includes Special Editions of
2001: A Space
Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange,
Eyes Wide
Shut, The Shining and
Full Metal Jacket
Deluxe Edition, along with the full-length
documentary, A Life in
Pictures.
2001:
A Space Odyssey has been newly remastered; A
Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut,
The
Shining and Full Metal Jacket,
also remastered, debut in their original widescreen theatrical
aspect ratios. All releases have been created in
collaboration with, and approved by, the estate of Stanley Kubrick. The
collection sells for $79.92 SRP on DVD. Single discs will be available at
various prices (see below for details). The films are also available on HD and
BD as singles ($28.99 SRP).
The films in the
Warner Home Video
Director’s Series: Stanley Kubrick also represented landmarks for
such stars as Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Jack Nicholson, Malcolm McDowell,
Vincent D’Onofrio, Matthew Modine and others. Enhanced with hours of
insightful and in-depth special features these Special Editions include
commentaries, documentaries, rare interviews with Stanley Kubrick and special
new featurettes that offer a rare look into the mind of the master filmmaker.
The 10 Disc set also includes the bonus documentary A Life in Pictures,
narrated by Tom Cruise, which details Kubrick’s early life, at
work and at home, with candid
commentary from collaborators, colleagues and family.
The Eyes Wide Shut Special
Edition includes both the Rated and Unrated versions, along with
the all-new featurette “Lost Kubrick: The
Films That Never Were.†Separate from this Collection, other Kubrick
titles available from WHV include Barry Lyndon and
Lolita.
About the
Films
2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick’s
dazzling, Academy AwardÃ’-winning achievement
(Special Visual Effects) is an allegorical puzzle on the evolution of man and a
compelling drama of man vs. machine. Featuring a stunning meld of music and
motion, the film was also Oscar® nominated for Best Director and Best
Screenplay. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first
visits the prehistoric age-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the
most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks
astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into
immortality.
DVD Special
Features:
Disc
One
· Commentary
by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood
· Theatrical
trailer
Disc
Two
· Channel 4
documentary: 2001: The Making of a
Myth
·
Standing on the
Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
·
Vision of a
Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
·
2001: A Space
Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future
·
2001: FX and
Early Conceptual Artwork
·
Look: Stanley
Kubrick!
· Audio-only
interview with Stanley Kubrick
· Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish
A
Clockwork Orange
(1971)
Stomping, whopping, stealing,
singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell)
has a good time – at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk
to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Kubrick’s
future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess’ novel. Controversial when first
released, the film garnered three Academy Award nominations – Best Picture, Best
Director and Best Screenplay. Its power still entices, shocks and mesmerizes
today.
DVD Special
Features:
Disc One
· Commentary
by Malcolm McDowell and historian Nick Redman
· Theatrical
trailer
Disc
Two
· Channel 4
documentary: Still Tickin’: The Return of
Clockwork Orange
· New
featurette: Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making
A Clockwork Orange
· Career
profile: O Lucky
Malcolm!
· Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish
Eyes
Wide Shut (1999)
Kubrick’s daring and controversial
last film is a bracing psychosexual journey through a haunting dreamscape, a
riveting suspense tale and a career milestone for stars Tom Cruise and Nicole
Kidman. Cruise plays a doctor who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens
his marriage – and may ensnare him in a murder mystery – after his wife’s
(Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear
to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful
flourishes. His graceful tracking shots, rich colors and startling images are
some of the bravura traits that show Kubrick as a filmmaker for the
ages.
DVD Special
Features:
Disc
One
· Scene
specific commentary by Sydney Pollack and historian Peter
Loewenberg
· Theatrical
trailer and TV spots
Disc
Two
· Channel 4
documentary: The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes
Wide Shut
·
Lost Kubrick:
The Unfinished Films of Stanley
Kubrick
· Kubrick’s
1998 DGA D.W Griffith Award acceptance speech
· Interview
gallery featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Steven Spielberg
·
Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish
Full
Metal Jacket (1987)
A superb ensemble falls in for
Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing
process that turns people into trained killers. The scathing indictment of a
film was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Screenplay. Joker (Matthew
Modine), Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Gomer (Vincent D’Onofrio), Eightball
(Dorian Harewood) and Cowboy (Arliss Howard) are some of the Marine recruits
experiencing boot-camp hell under the punishing command of the foul-mouthed
Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermy). The action is savage, the story unsparing, and
the dialogue is spiked with scathing humor.
DVD Special
Features:
· Commentary
by Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and Jay Cocks
·
New
Featurette: Full Metal Jacket: Between Good
and Evil
· Theatrical
trailer
· Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish
The
Shining (1980)
From a script he co-adapted from the
Stephen King novel, Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings,
dreamlike tracking shots and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre.
The
Shining is the director’s epic tale of a man in a snowbound hotel
descending into murderous delusions. In a signature role, Jack Nicholson
(“Heeeere’s Johnny!â€) stars as Jack Torrance, who’s come to the elegant,
isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife (Shelley Duvall)
and son (Danny Lloyd).
DVD Special
Features:
Disc
One
· Commentary
by Garrett Brown and John Baxter
· Theatrical
trailer
Disc
Two
· Documentary
The Making of the Shining, with
optional commentary by Vivian
Kubrick
· Three new
featurettes: View from The Overlook:
Crafting the Shining, The Visions of Stanley Kubrick, and Wendy Carlos,
Composer
·
Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish
Stanley
Kubrick – A Life in Pictures
Produced and directed by longtime
Kubrick associate Jan Harlan, this full-length documentary includes footage and
personal photographs made available by Christiane Kubrick, the director’s wife
of more than 42 years. The film paints a surprisingly accessible portrait of
Kubrick, giving a strikingly different view of the man and what influenced him
as a filmmaker. Among the long list of actors, friends and colleagues paying
tribute are Woody Allen, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Shelley Duvall, Tom Cruise,
Nicole Kidman, Christiane Kubrick, Paul Mazursky, Malcolm McDowell, Matthew
Modine, Jack Nicholson, Alan Parker, Sydney Pollack, Richard Schickel, Martin
Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Douglas Trumbull and Sir Peter
Ustinov.
Barry
Lyndon (1975)
Redmond Barry is a young, roguish
Irishman who's determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy
nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army, fighting in the Seven Years War in
Europe, Barry deserts from the British army, joins the Prussian army, gets
promoted to the rank of a spy, then becomes pupil to a Chevalier and con
artist/gambler. Barry then lies, dupes, duels and seduces his way up the social
ladder and enters into a lustful but loveless marriage to a wealthy countess
named Lady Lyndon, takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in
England with wealth and power beyond
his wildest dreams, then slowly falls
Lolita
(1962)
Humbert Humbert, a divorced British
professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a
teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with
Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in
order that he might pursue the woman's 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita,
with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love, but whose affections shall be
thwarted by a devious trickster named Clare Quilty.