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Stanley Kubrick: Life
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Kubrick's father taught him chess at age twelve; the game remained a life-long obsession. When Stanley was thirteen years old, Jacques Kubrick bought him a Graflex camera, triggering Kubrick's fascination with still photography. He was ... interested in jazz, attempting a brief career as a drummer.
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At this point, Kubrick was already considered among the finest of filmmakers. Yet nothing would prepare viewers for what was to become. Over the next dozen years, he would only make three films. Yet, in terms of quality and influence, these twelve years were the most productive of his life, and the trio of masterpieces he made have left a mark on cinema that may be unequaled.
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Invariably these kind of ill-informed comments say more about the critic than about Kubrick or, more importantly, his films. A metropolitan media that measures artistic success by the quantities of cocaine snorted in a Dean Street bar has few terms of reference for dealing with someone who chooses to sit at home for most of their life. Hence the recurrent headlines: “Kubrick the recluse”, “Kubrick the secretive, paranoid control-freak”.
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Father – By the age of 13, Jakob Kubrick had introduced his son to 2 aspects of life that would help shape Stanley’s life: chess and photography. Photography was a natural stepping stone to the cinema and chess would teach him other life lessons:
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Alex Singer introduced Kubrick to a producer named James B. Harris, and the two became lifelong friends. Their business partnership, Harris-Kubrick Productions, financed Kubrick's next three films. They bought the rights to the Lionel White novel
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