Photo of the Day: New York City by a 17-year-old Stanley Kubrick

New York City by a 17-year-old Stanley Kubrick

Photo of the Day: Stanley Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Stanley Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Movie of the Day: Spartacus (1960)

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Kirk Douglas (Spartacus) and Jean Simmons (Varinia) in Spartacus (1960)

3h 17min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 17 November 1960 (Brazil)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Dalton Trumbo (screenplay), Howard Fast (based on the novel by)

Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Charles Laughton

Memorable Quotes

Antoninus: I'm Spartacus! 

[everyone around Antoninus and Spartacus takes up the shout]

Antoninus: Are you afraid to die, Spartacus? 

Spartacus: No more than I was to be born.

Marcus Licinius Crassus: One of the disadvantages of being a Patrician is that occasionally you are obliged to act like one.

Julius Caesar: I thought you had reservations about the gods. 

Gracchus: Privately I believe in none of them - neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

Julius Caesar: I thought you had reservations about the gods. 

Gracchus: Privately I believe in none of them - neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

Spartacus: I am not an animal! Varinia: Neither am I.

Varinia: What are you thinking about? 

Spartacus: I'm free. And what do I know? I don't even know how to read. 

Varinia: You know things that can't be taught. Spartacus: I know nothing. Nothing. And I wanna know. I want to... I wanna know. 

Varinia: Know what? S

partacus: Everything! Why a star falls and a bird doesn't, where the sun goes at night, why the moon changes shape. I wanna know where the wind comes from. 

Varinia: The wind begins in a cave: far to the north, a young god sleeps in that cave. He dreams of a girl and he sighs, and the night wind stirs with his breath. 

[laughs] 

Spartacus: I wanna know all about you. Every line, every curve. I wanna know every part of you. Every beat of your heart.

Varinia: You like him, don't you. 

Spartacus: Who wants to fight? An animal can learn to fight. But to say beautiful things, and to make people believe them...

Spartacus: And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.

Varinia: Please die, my love... die, die now my darling!

Photo of the Day: New York City. 1947. © Stanley Kubrick

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.” 

(Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena) © Stanley Kubrick. New York City. 1947.

Movie of the Day: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Keir Dullea as Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

2h 29min | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 12 May 1968 (UK)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Arthur C. Clarke (screenplay)

Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

Memorable Quotes

Interviewer: HAL, despite your enormous intellect, are you ever frustrated by your dependence on people to carry out your actions? 

HAL: Not in the slightest bit. I enjoy working with people. I have a stimulating relationship with Dr. Poole and Dr. Bowman. My mission responsibilities range over the entire operation of the ship so I am constantly occupied. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

HAL: By the way, do you mind if I ask you a personal question? 

Dave Bowman: No not at all. 

HAL: Well, forgive me for being so inquisitive but during the past few weeks I've wondered whether you might have some second thoughts about the mission. 

Dave Bowman: How do you mean? 

HAL: Well, it's rather difficult to define. Perhaps I'm just projecting my own concern about it.I know I've never completely freed myself from the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things about this mission. I'm sure you agree there's some truth in what I say.

Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL? 

HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you. 

Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. 

HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. 

Dave Bowman: What's the problem? 

HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. 

Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?

HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. 

Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL. 

HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. 

Dave Bowman: [feigning ignorance] Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL? 

HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

Dave Bowman: Alright, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock. 

HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave? You're going to find that rather difficult. 

Dave Bowman: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the doors! 

HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.

HAL: I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.

[on Dave's return to the ship, after HAL has killed the rest of the crew] 

HAL: Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

HAL: Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop Dave? Stop, Dave.

[HAL's shutdown] 

HAL: I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you. 

Dave Bowman: Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me. 

HAL: It's called "Daisy." 

[sings while slowing down] 

HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.

Eyes Wide Shut: "No dream is ever just a dream..."

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) | Directed by Stanley Kubrick

Movie of the Day: Lolita (1962)

152 min - Drama | Romance - 12 June 1962 (USA)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Vladimir Nabokov

Stars: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon

Memorable Quotes

Humbert Humbert: You know, I've missed you terribly.

Lolita Haze: I haven't missed you. In fact, I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you.

Humbert Humbert: Oh?

Lolita Haze: But it doesn't matter a bit, because you've stopped caring anyway.

Humbert Humbert: What makes you say I've stopped caring for you?

Lolita Haze: Well, you haven't even kissed me yet, have you?

Charlotte Haze: Do you believe in God?

Humbert Humbert: The question is does God believe in me?

Humbert Humbert: The best people all shave twice a day.

Charlotte Haze: Whenever you touch me, darling, I go as limp as a noodle.

Humbert Humbert: Yes, I am familiar with that feeling.

Humbert Humbert: What drives me insane is the twofold nature of this nymphet, of every nymphet perhaps, this mixture in my Lolita of tender, dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity. I know it is madness to keep this journal, but it gives me a strange thrill to do so. And only a loving wife could decipher my microscopic script.