The Stanley Kubrick Archives - Reviews

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"This huge book charts Stanley Kubrick`s progress from indie maverick to establishment hero. It features large-scale movie stills as well as previously unpublished photographs, sketches, and notes from the director`s archive. As a bonus, the first 2500 copies of The Stanley Kubrick Archives includes 12 frames of the epic 2001: A Space Odyssey snipped from a print once owned by the man himself." Flare Canada
"Imposingly dense, wide as a barn door and weighing in at a lap-crushing 15 pounds, TASCHEN`s 545-page The Stanly Kubrick Archives showed up one morning in our offices, where my editor and I circled it like curious apes. Sniffing, we found it odorless; this is not a tome of gossip about the director`s rumored helmet-clad crash paranoia, late-night faxing to Stephen King or other mysterious behavior. Diving in, I devoted several hours. Did I ultimately evolve? Undoubtedly." Time Out New York, New York United States
"A cinema coffee-table book to end all cinema coffee-table books, The Stanley Kubrick Archives, edited by Alison Castle, offers readers an unprecedented look inside the director`s creative process. It provides sketches, notes, and an almost unbelievable stash of other behind-the-scenes material―just the stills from the shot-but-never-seen War Room pie fight originally intended as the climax for Dr. Strangelove would be considered worth the hefty price tag by some aficionados. But you get much more: scholarly essays, a CD featuring an audio interview with Kubrick, and, if you buy the first printing, 12 frames from Kubrick`s personal 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It`s also one of the most beautifully designed and laid out books of this or any year." Premiere, New York United States
"Put down TASCHEN`s stunning new tribute to Stanley Kubrick? I`m afraid we can`t do that, Dave. Granted full access by the estate of director Stanley Kubrick, editor Alison Castle has put together The Stanley Kubrick Archives, a mammoth insight into movies such as Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, and The Shining. Taken from Kubrick`s personal collections, the book contains 800 film stills scanned from the original reels, on-set photography, interviews, essays, pages from screenplay drafts, information on unfinished projects and much more. The coolest part? Every copy in the first-print run includes a 12-frame strip from a 70mm print of 2001 owned by Stan himself―making this package the collector`s item of all collector`s items." Giant Magazine, New York United States
"L`éditeur allemand bien connu des amateurs d`art "pour pas cher" semble vouloir se spécialiser dans l`exercice consistant à pondre tous les six mois un "Kolossal" ouvrage aux vertus exhaustives. Le dernier en date s`attaque donc au mythe Kubrick et à son impressionnante oeuvre cinématographique. La première bonne idée est d`avoir composé en première partie du livre de multiples "story boards" (un par film) en faisant se succéder des images clés directement "capturées" à partir de la pellicule. En seconde partie, chaque film est disséqué, analysé et commenté par des spécialistes ou par Kubrick lui-même. Le tout, bien évidemment, accompagné de multiples photos extraites des différents tournages ainsi que d`innombrables documents d`archives. Il y a même un C D reproduisant l`interview accordée en novembre 1966 à Jeremy Bernstein. Il en résulte une impression d`intégralité et (curieusement) de compacité, ce qui révèle ici de l`exploit : il s`agit tout de même d`un mastodonte de 550 pages et de 7 kilos sur la bascule. Dernière trouvaille : Chaque exemplaire est authentifié par douze images extraites d`une copie originale de "2001 l`odysée de l`espace" …Indispensable, donc." L'Imprononçable, Paris France
"Le monde selon Kubrick. Une présentation exceptionnelle de l`oeuvre de Kubrick à travers ses archives. " Paris sur la Terre, Paris France
"The challenge of reviewing this book is figuring out how to describe it: massive, lavish, comprehensive, staggering? All of those words apply. Alison Castle, who also edited Taschen`s formidable coffee-table book on Some Like it Hot, has worked with Kubrick`s widow Christiane and the Kubrick estate to compile what may be the most extraordinary film book ever published, certainly the most exhaustive tribute to a director ever attempted." Leonard Maltin.com/Entertainment Tonight United States
"Stanley Kubrick Archives embraces his cool, epic style. It's as comprehensive and weighty as you would hope from a book that costs £100, is 544 pages long and can barely be lifted with both hands.( ) And seeing the worlds-historic, futuristic, dystopic-of whose reality he so meticulously convinced us, recast here as mere movie sets is an unsettling, enriching experience for the deep-pocketed Kubrick devotee." Hotdog Magazine, London United Kingdom
"Its immense, imperious, deep-pocketed devotees will be rewarded with a prime piece of "Kubrickiana" -collectors and fans alike will be particularly enticed with the inclusion of an original 12-frame, 70mm film strip from "2001 Space Odyssey"-ultimately leaving all books on the man firmly under its (considerable) shadow." Variety, London and LA United States
"Muy a pesar de Ford, Welles, Garci o Hitchcock, no hay duda de que Stanley Kubrick es el director de cine más genial parido en territorio anglosajón, por no decir el más genial de la historia de los homo sapiens. Su obra es monumental y apasionante, terriblemente compleja pero al mismo tiempo "para todos los públicos". Y quien siga pensando que esto son sólo tristes tópicos, que le eche un vistazo a este libro de 7 kilos y medio de peso servido en maletín por 150 euros. Sobran las palabras. Y va en serio". Redmagazine, Barcelona Spain
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