The Stanley Kubrick: Visionary Filmmaker Collection on Blu-ray is an unprecedented 7-film, 8-disc collection. The collection features the film and bonus content from A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition, the Blu-ray debuts of Lolita and Barry Lyndon, as well as the feature films 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut.

A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition

Causing major controversy when first released, the film garnered four Academy Award® nominations--Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Screenplay--and is #4 on AFI's Top 10 List of Best Science Fiction films of all-time.

• Feature Film
• New Bonus Features
• Malcolm McDowell Looks Back: Malcolm McDowell reflects on his experience working with legendary director Stanley Kubrick on one of the seminal films of the 1970s
• Turning Like Clockwork considers the film's ultra-violence and its cultural impact

Plus

• Commentary by Malcolm McDowell and historian Nick Redman
• Documentary Still Tickin': The Return of Clockwork Orange
• Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making A Clockwork Orange
• Theatrical Trailer

Lolita (1962)

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.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Stanley Kubrick's dazzling, Academy Award®-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, Art Direction and Writing. 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.

Special Features:

• Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood
• 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
• What Is Out There?
• 2001: A Space Odyssey Conceptual Artwork
• Look: Stanley Kubrick!
• Audio-only Bonus: 1966 Kubrick Interview Conducted by Jeremy Bernstein

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) 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 and fighting in Europe's Seven Years War, Barry deserts, then joins the Prussian army, gets promoted to the rank of a spy, and becomes a pupil to a Chevalier and con artist/gambler. Barry then lies, dupes, duels and seduces his way up the social ladder, entering into a lustful but loveless marriage to a wealthy countess named Lady Lyndon. He takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in England with wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams, before eventually falling into ruin.

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!") 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).

Special Features:

• Commentary by Steadicam inventor/operator Garrett Brown and historian John Baxter
• Vivian Kubrick's Documentary The Making of the Shining with Optional Commentary
• View from the Overlook: Crafting The Shining
• The Visions of Stanley Kubrick and Wendy Carlos, Composer

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.

Special Features:

• Commentary by Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and critic/screenwriter Jay Cocks
• Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil

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.

Special Features:

• Three-Part Documentary:
• The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut
• The Haven/Mission Control,
• Artificial Intelligence or The Writer Robot,
• EWS: A Film by Stanley Kubrick

Other Features

• Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
• Interview Gallery Featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg
• Kubrick's 1998 Directors Guild of America D.W. Griffith Award acceptance speech

Bonus Disc
Jan Harland Documentaries: A Life in Pictures and O Lucky Man

Language and Subtitles Information

Language Audio

• Lolita: English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish
• Barry Lyndon: English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish
• A Clockwork Orange: English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish
• The Shining: English
• Full Metal Jacket: English
• 2001: Space Odyssey: English
• Eyes Wide Shut:English

Subtitles

• Lolita: Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, French, Cantonese Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish
• Barry Lyndon: Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, French, Cantonese Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish
• A Clockwork Orange: Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Catalan Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, French, Cantonese Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish
• The Shining: English
• Full Metal Jacket: English
• 2001: Space Odyssey: English
• Eyes Wide Shut:English

From Amazon.co.uk

The Stanley Kubrick: Visionary Filmmaker Collection is a blistering treat for anyone with a deep, longing love of the movies. It’s a pack that brings together seven films from the late, great Stanley Kubrick, spread across eight discs.

The quality of the films in question speak for themselves. There’s the 40th anniversary edition of the groundbreaking A Clockwork Orange to kick things off, and other high profile classics include 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut and Full Metal Jacket.

Yet boxsets such as these also, by their nature, champion the films that haven’t had such levels of appreciation. Thus, to get a glistening release of the likes of Lolita and Barry Lyndon is a massive bonus in itself, and goes a long way to justify the price of the set.

Some films here get more generous extra features than others, which is a shame, and there’s still quite possibly the definitive Stanley Kubrick boxset yet to be made. However, the Visionary Filmmaker Collection is still a terrific package, bringing together a clutch of important films from a genuine cinematic one-off. Quite, quite brilliant. --Jon Foster

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