This video essay examines some of the films that influenced Stanley Kubrick, as well as the many films his work has since influenced.
In addition to Kubrick’s 13 theatrically released feature films, there are references to over seventy other films. Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg as how far Kubrick’s work permeates across cinema.
0:10 Fear and Desire - Kubrick
0:14 Full Metal Jacket - Kubrick
0:16 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Wiene
0:18 Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - Hand
0:20 The Shining - Kubrick
0:21 Nosferatu - Murnau
0:23 Lolita - Kubrick
0:26 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - Murnau
0:28 Metropolis - Lang
0:30 The Roaring Twenties - Walsh
0:31 Funny Games - Haneke
0:33 Rear Window - Hitchcock
0:35 Psycho - Hitchcock
0:38 The Dark Knight - Nolan
0:40 Silence of the Lambs - Demme
0:42 Vinyl - Warhol
0:45 The Game - Fincher
0:47 A Clockwork Orange - Kubrick
0:52 Basic Training - Wiseman
1:14 Paths of Glory - Kubrick
1:16 Gladiator - Scott
1:22 The Public Enemy - Wellman
1:24 The Human Condition: Road to Eternity - Kobayashi
1:28 Come and See - Klimov
1:29 2001: A Space Odyssey - Kubrick
1:48 The Wild Bunch - Peckinpah
2:02 Barton Fink - Coen, Coen
2:12 Throne of Blood - Kurosawa
2:23 The Blob - Yeaworth, Doughten
2:35 The Universe - Kroitor, Low
2:43 Interstellar - Nolan
2:46 Minority Report - Spielberg
2:51 Blade Runner - Scott
2:54 The Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Cameron
2:56 Donnie Darko - Kelly
3:00 Under the Skin - Glazer
3:02 Un Chien Andalou - Bunuel, Dali
3:04 Vertigo - Hitchcock
3:05 Voyage to the Moon - Melies
3:07 WALL-E - Stanton
3:17 Eraserhead - Lynch
3:23 Gravity - Cuaron
3:30 Road to the Stars - Klashantsev
3:42 A Canterbury Tale - Powell, Pressburger
4:09 Ikarie XB-1 / Voyage to the End of the Universe - Polak
4:16 Allures - Belson
4:39 Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick
4:45 Pearl Harbor - Bay
4:50 Barry Lyndon - Kubrick
4:53 Letter from an Unknown Woman - Ophuls
5:13 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Leone
5:28 Once Upon a Time in the West - Leone
5:32 The Seven Samurai - Kurosawa
5:37 Sanjuro - Kurosawa
5:41 The Duellists - Scott
5:43 Dangerous Liaisons - Frears
5:47 Kind Hearts and Coronets - Hamer (narration)
6:09 The Hunger - Scott
6:21 La Ronde - Ophuls
6:23 Senso - Visconti
6:25 Eyes Wide Shut - Kubrick
6:27 Rosemary's Baby - Polanski
6:47 Casino - Scorsese
6:54 The Wolf of Wall Street - Scorsese
7:12 Persona - Bergman
7:40 The Silence - Bergman
7:48 Les Diaboliques - Clouzot
8:04 American Beauty - Mendes
8:10 Funeral Parade of Roses - Matsumoto
8:32 The Magnificent Ambersons - Welles
8:34 Killer's Kiss - Kubrick
8:51 Fight Club - Fincher
8:56 Citizen Kane - Welles (dialogue)
9:12 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Mankiewicz
9:40 Birth - Glazer
10:00 The Killing - Kubrick
10:05 Natural Born Killers - Stone
10:09 Point Break - Bigelow
10:14 Reservoir Dogs - Tarantino
10:22 The Phantom Carriage - Sjostrom
10:27 Broken Blossoms - Griffith
10:32 The Wind - Sjostrom
11:07 Spartacus - Kubrick
11:23 Orlando - Potter
11:35 Marie Antoinette - Coppola
11:57 The Favourite - Lanthimos
12:05 Repulsion - Polanski
12:16 The 400 Blows - Truffaut
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