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STANLEY KUBRICK RANKED (PART TWO)

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Welcome back to my ranking of all of Stanley Kubrick's feature films! If you're after an introduction to this list, go back and read part one, because we're just going to dive straight in. And this is not only incredibly difficult, but intensely subjective, because at this point in the list we are in classics territory. Any one of these films could be at the top of someone else's list, and I wouldn't have a problem with any of them. It's rare that a filmmaker has this consistently made stone cold classics, so let's celebrate the ones that we've got.  6. Full Metal Jacket (1987) Full Metal Jacket was an important moment for me in my development as a person trying to understand films. I knew who Kubrick was, and I'd seen a few of his films already, but I actually approached Full Metal Jacket for the first time as a Vietnam War film as part of my studies in high school. As a ploy to pass off watching films as "study" I found a list of all the

STANLEY KUBRICK RANKED (PART ONE)

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You all know who he is. One of American cinema's fabled geniuses, one of film's biggest perfectionist. A filmmaker with perhaps the greatest ration of films to iconic images. Unable to be categorised by genre, he has covered almost every square inch of cinema over a lifetime of classic films. I'm obviously talking about Stanley Kubrick. Of course you know that already - it's in the fucking title.  As a way of celebrating the filmography of Stanley Kubrick, I thought I would go through each of his feature films and rank them - not as a way of saying any of these are better than any others, mind you. This is my subjective ranking of his films based purely on my experiences of seeing them, and really this whole exercise is just an excuse to talk about Kubrick for a while.  So without further ado, let's dive into the world of Stanley Kubrick.  13. Fear and Desire (1952) Kubrick's feature debut  Fear and Desire can be best summarised by Kubrick himself: "I look