Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the comments section! And YES I am aware I said 21st century not 20th at 3:15. Obviously just a slip-up.

Rip shelley duvall

Paths of Glory, coming of age in Reagen's 80s?, the film hits very, very hard.
Regarding Shelley Duvall, why the campaign to discredit her talent? Thank you for going to the source.
Great Actress

My absolute favourite film director. Forever imitated, rarely matched, impossibly influential.

2001 had very little dialogue because it wasn't needed.  The story is mostly told visually and is done perfectly.

I saw A Clockwork Orange far too young. It was on cable that we picked up from the neighbors. I was 11 and my brother 8. We were baffled and scarred for life. Thanks, Stanley.
I can't pick a favorite but truly love Eyes Wide Shut and how it disturbed my snooty married friends and gave my boyfriend the willies. It's a rewatchable...

I don’t mean to be hyperbolic However Putting Paths of Glory that low is INSANE.

I love a clockwork orange. Whenever i watch it, i need to eat a big plate of spaghetti while im watching. 😅

13. Fear and desire
12. Killers kiss
11. The killing
10. Lolita
9. Paths of glory
8. Spartacus
7. Dr Strangelove
6. Eyes Wide Shut
5. The Shining
4. Full Metal Jacket
3. Barry Lyndon
2. A Clockwork Orange
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Paths of Glory is amazing. I put it way up there even above the 2001

A general nitpick re Barry Lyndon - the military tactics shown (advancing in formation and suffering as a result), were not stupid or done for pageantry at all; they were a feature of the weaponry of the time. Smoothbore muskets were not accurate, so armies had to advance and fire en masse in order to have an effect on opponents. The pageantry of flags and uniforms all serve an important purpose of being able to identify your (and your opponent's) troops, as the gunpowder of the time shrouded the battlefield in smoke, making it very difficult to know where your troops were.

Also, it's worth reading and knowing about the source novel by Thackery - it's a complete farce with one of the world's first anti-heroes in Barry. It's quite funny.

The montage you've got going throughout is just brilliant. It reminds me of the skill that went into the assembly of the Michel Ciment "Kubrick" book or the Taschen Kubrick books.

your descriptions warm my heart. film/cinema is so much than just that. its very psychological and human

Proud to say I bunked off school in '99 to go see Eyes Wide Shut on the big screen.

Ranking Kubrick movies is as daunting as ranking ice cream flavours - Kubrick movies depend on what day of the week yu watch

I saw 2001 in 1968  at the age of 20 when I was an art student and cinema lover in Vienna. It was playing at the grand Gartenbau Kino (70mm), and I was overwhelmed by its visual and philosophical impact. Two years later I watched Dr. Strangelove (on TV, after inhaling some very good weed) and it similarly blew me away. His films had a significant influence on my career as an artist, designer and photographer. Thank you, Stanley, also for your other masterpieces!

I would rate Paths of Glory above Full Metal Jacket. If I absolutely had to pick one film as his best, it would be Barry Lyndon. He took an incredibly thin story, stretched it out over three hours, and made a gorgeous film of it. And it was the role Ryan O'Neal was born to play. Kubrick had a deeply-rooted sense of the absurd.

If you ever get the chance to see 2001 in the cinema, Jump at it. It's an incredible experience. I've been fortunate enough to see it on the big screen a few times. The most recent was actually in 70mm at the Prince Charles Cinema in London. They screen it regularly in order to keep hold of the print. It's the 'unrestored' version so there are a lot of scratches but for many fans of celluloid, it's part of the experience.
But whether in 70mm or digital 4k, it's an unforgettable experience on the big screen.

It was made for Cinerama, which was like the IMAX of the day.
The main difference is that Cinerama was focused more on wide-screen and required 3 synchronised projectors.

Excellent video on Kubrick's films. Much of your comments and selections echo my own. 2001: A Space Odyssey, for me, is one of the greatest films of all time. I saw it in 1968 and I was awestruck.

I'm 71 and did see 2001 on opening weekend and yes it was just was ever more amasing in a huge 2000 seat theatre in the dark and you could hear a pin drop for 3 hours. And the shining is 50 years ahead of its time, as though filmed in CCTV voyeurism of 21st century post 9/11 world.