Kubrick Newsletter no. 10 - November 2004

In 2001, there was just one, very limited, very under-publicized showing in a SONY theater (?) of Bronx native, Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" in all of NYC, about which Mr. Ebert said, started his film review career back in college. Tony Curtis, (Bernard Schwartz) who was in one of Kubrick's other famous films, "Spartacus" is also a Bronx native, from the now landmarked "Grand Concourse". Recent newsletter excerpts: "At age thirteen, Stanley Kubrick received his first camera as a gift from his father. He became a member of the photoclub at the William Howard Taft High School. Kubrick made up his own projects with motifs from his Bronx environment and published some of them in the school's student paper. His first hour of success had come when on 12 April 1945 president Roosevelt died: On his way home from school Kubrick saw the headline at a newspaper stand and took a photograph of the sad looking newspaper vendor (Kubrick allegedly induced him to put on that sad face making this famous picture one of his earliest clever stagings). The same day the sixteen year-old sold the image for $25 to Look Magazine. They hired him right after high school making him the youngest staff photographer the magazine ever had. His mother Gertrude started a scrapbook with clippings of his articles in Look. Read more and view the object: http://www.stanleykubrick.de/eng.php?img=img-l-6&kubrick=newsletter10-eng#1" - 1. This month's object the Look scrapbook. "Kubrick's well-to-do-parents always supported their son's talents while he was raised in the Bronx. His father Jaques L. Kubrick, a medical doctor, encouraged Stanley to take up photography and introduced him to literature and chess – remaining important constants in Kubrick's life." - 2. Portrait: Kubrick's family. "The exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin (20 January through 11 April 2005) is supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds and by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Stanley Kubrick's films will be shown at the 55th International Film Festival Berlin (10 through 20 February 2005), additional shows will take place at the Zeughaus-Kino of the Deutsches Historisches Museum (23 February through 6 March 2005)." - 3. Kubrick exhibition in Berlin: cooperations. Filmography: http://www.stanleykubrick.de/eng.php?img=img-l-3&kubrick=filmografie-eng