1) Stanley Kubrick nearly killed the movie.

2) Stanley Kubrick s cosmic metaphor of human evolution is a stunning visual achievement.

3) Above: Chewing up the scenery in the War Room: "Dr. Strangelove" (Stanley Kubrick, 1964).

4) I was chatting with Stanley Kubrick, and I thought to myself: there's a picture here.

5) It is in common knowledge that Stanley Kubrick is a great ironist and his ironic strength does not fail in A Clockwork Orange.

6) Above: The apes and the monolith: "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick, 1968).

7) Add to this the fact that Director Stanley Kubrick allowed him to ad lib about 50% of his lines, which Kubrick only allowed for one other actor in history, Peter Sellers.

8) Below: On the verge of rebirth: "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick,[http:///stanley kubrick.html] 1968).

9) Below: Light of my life, fire of my loins... The image that will never age: "Lolita" (Stanley Kubrick, 1962).

10) Stanley Kubrick is the quintessential auteur; like Fellini, Hitchcock and Allen, his vision permeates every aspect of the final product and his style is unmistakable.

11) The image that will never age: "Lolita" (Stanley Kubrick, 1962).

12) Stanley Kubrick saw a dark humour in the netherworld of the "democratic" bunker.

13) The film is infamous for copycat behaviour, which many thought to be the reason that director Stanley Kubrick withdrew the film in the UK.

14) In Burgess's 1962 dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange, famously filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, the unruly youngster Alex is subjected to "the Ludovico Technique" by the crazed authorities.

15) In "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), which he co-wrote with Stanley Kubrick, ape-man evolved into Star Child.

16) The film has had a long journey to the screen, starting as a conception of the late director Stanley Kubrick eighteen years ago.