Stanley Kubrick, the relentless perfectionist who directed some of cinema’s greatest classics, was so sensitive to criticism that, in 1970, he threatened legal action to block publication of a book which dared to discuss flaws in his films.

The director of Spartacus and 2001: A Space Odyssey, warned the book’s author and publisher that he would fight “tooth and nail” and “use every legal means at his disposal” to prevent its publication – and he did.

Now, 25 years after his death, the book Kubrick did not want anyone to read is being published, more than half a century late.

The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick by Neil Hornick now has three prefaces reflecting its subject’s ruthlessness in trying to block publication and control his image.

Hornick, now 84, from London, said Kubrick’s legal threats had come as a shock: “I regard it as a painful episode.”

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    6 months ago

    I don’t have to make anything up, and I note that you did not post a single word of what Mia Farrow or Ronan Farrow had to say about it either.

    Posting one side of a very heated and ongoing family squabble does not an adequate rebuttal make.

    EDITED TO ADD that I have deleted my original comment because I will not knowingly give pedophile apologists a springboard to launch their twisted defense of him.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t have to make anything up

      But you did. She wasn’t Woody Allen’s adoptive daughter.

      “In 1992, Previn said that Farrow had physically abused her.[16] In 2018, Previn’s brother Moses Farrow has said that he too was physically abused by Farrow.”

      I have no dog in this fight but I don’t buy the narrative that Mia Farrow is an angel and Woody Allen is the devil.

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        6 months ago

        From https://lemmy.world/u/ChunkMcHorkle

        EDITED TO ADD that I have deleted my original comment because I will not knowingly give pedophile apologists a springboard to launch their twisted defense of him.

        I should note that all I did was quote from Soon-Yi’s wikipedia page. This asshole got caught spreading lies and is now acting out instead of taking responsibility.