Movies
September, 1980
He takes his time, but when Stanley Kubrick makes a movie, he makes it right. There is still no serious science fiction to match 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was a decade ahead of its time. There's no subsequent black comedy of our nuclear age to beat Dr. Strangelove, and Kubrick's images of punk terrorists on roller skates make A Clockwork Orange now look like culture shock date-lined yesterday. The old cinematic magic boils over again in The Shining, his brilliant supernatural horror show adap...