Stanley Kubrick

Visually awesome, emotionally distant, and remorselessly sober in its view of human evil, The Shining is Stanley Kubrick's first and only foray into the realm of horror. His previous film, Barry Lyndon (1975), was an innovative historical epic that was a box-office failure, despite its achievements (it won four technical Oscars and was nominated for two Golden Globes, Best Drama and Best Director).

* An occasional series on films restored with the support of the HFPA. Stanley Kubrick’s classic, Paths of Glory, which was declared 'culturally, historically and aesthetically significant' by the Library of Congress in 1992, was restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Edward Lewis was born on December 16, 1919, in Camden, N. J.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, one of the world’s oldest, is celebrating its 54th iteration this year, and one of the highlights of this year’s edition was the screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 anti-war masterpiece Paths of Glory in the festival’s Out of the Past section. This film is one of the 92 films restored with HFPA funding in collaboration with Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation.