
We celebrate Stanley Kubrick because he ROCKS. A Hollywood and alternative film maker, he created the most bizarre and disconnected films that ever hit mainstream cinema. It's one of his trademarks: not one film he has made is ever like the other. He used the bizarre, the explotive and the realism of the world to test the limits of censorship and art and send a message out to the public: This is your world. Well, that's the message we got, anyway.
"How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality." -Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was born on July 26, 1928 in New York City, and died in 1999 during the process of making his thirteenth feature film: Eyes Wide Shut. If you haven't seen any of Kubrick's works, you most certainly have heard of some of them. AND if you haven't seen them, we suggest you do. While looking for these films, we do remind you that Kubrick makes comments on society, so in order to appreciate the messages a mature mind is required.
The official Kubrick website is the best place for further and more detailed information.

The following is a list of Stanley Kubrick Films. We haven't created summaries or comment pages on any of them yet, however if you would like to do so, we're looking for help in the area!
Day of the Flight, 1950
Flying Padre, 1951
Fear & Desire, 1953
The Seafarers, 1953
The Killing, 1955
Killer's Kiss 1956
Paths of Glory, 1957
Lolita, 1060
Spartacus, 1960
Dr Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964
2001: A Space Oddesy, 1968
A Clockwork Orange, 1971
Barry Lyndon, 1975
Full Metal Jacket, 1987
Eyes Wide Shut, 1999

Clockwork Blue thinks that Kubrick rocks unanimously. He stood for everything we stand for now, and we hope to continue that great idealism of free speech and social messages through our work in the future. In case you've noticed the connection, our group name, 'Clockwork Blue' stems off of his work 'A Clockwork Orange'.
For us, Clockwork is the pun: mechanical, timed, predictable pawns of society. But Blue, in addition to it being a favorite colour, has so many connotations that we use it to negate clockwork. What do you think it means?
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