https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2011/12/22/and-now-a-word-from-stanley-kubrick/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 07:24:53 -0400<![CDATA[When I first caught the film bug in college, I got more than a little obsessive rifling through the shelves of the school library for books and magazine articles on Stanley Kubrick and his films. (If you’re a student with tendencies towards OCD, discovering Stanley was like discovering a kindred spirit made good. I shudder to think what would have happened had Taschen’s massive Stanley Kubrick Archives, published several years after Kubrick&#8217;s death had been published at the time, but I think Stanley would have loved the book himself.)  I was determined to crack the mysteries of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and explore his other films as well. For 2001, Kubrick removed narration and an original score by veteran film composer Alex North to create a visceral nonlinear experience. Given the MoMA-approved film that emerged, and the hundreds of thousands of words that it generated, in a way, it illustrates &#8212; so to speak &#8212; Tom Wolfe&#8217;s dictum from The Painted Word that “Modern Art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.”]]>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:58:52 -0500<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2011/12/22/and-now-a-word-from-stanley-kubrick-n138281