"The most influential book I read at that time was Pudovkin's Film Technique. It is a very simple unpretentious book that illuminates rather than embroiders. It certainly makes it clear that film cutting is the one and only aspect of films that is unique and unrelated to any other art form. I found this book much more important than the complex writings of Eisenstein." --2--

"The equivalent to Pudovkin's book on film editing is a book oddly enough about Stanislavsky, not by him: Stanislavski Directs, by Nikolai M. Gorchakov. It provides a very detailed and practical description of Stanislavski at work on different productions. I would regard it as an essential book for any intending film director." --2--

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The novel that introduced Kubrick to his The Shining screenplay collaborator, Diane Johnson.
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Read by Kubrick and Johnson in preparation for work on The Shining. --12--

Read by Kubrick while searching for material that would become Full Metal Jacket. He contacted Herr who recommended the novel The Short-Timers. Kubrick then hired Herr to work on the screenplay.

Kubrick wrote an introduction to the published teleplays of The Decalogue and the following excerpt appears on the DVD box:

"These films have the very real ability to dramatize their ideas...with such dazzling skill, you...don't realize until much later how profoundly they have touched your heart"

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"What kinds of horror films do you like? Did you see Rosemary's Baby?

It was one of the best of the genre. I liked The Exorcist too.

And John Boorman's The Heretic?

I haven't seen it, but I like his work. Deliverance is an extremely good film." --5--

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"I don't think Ophuls ever received the critical appreciation he deserved for films like Le Plaisir, The Earrings of Madame de..., and La Ronde." --2--

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"Although Kubrick did not acknowledge that the films of Fritz Lang that he saw --he liked the Dr. Mabuse series and "M"--had any direct influence on him, Lang's concern with myth, legend, and the Teutonic unconscious seems clearly analogous to his evolving interests."  --2--

Kubrick's 10 favorite films listed in Cinema magazine in 1963. Not all are available on video.