Happy Birthday Stanley Kubrick: Nolan to Shekhar Kapur, 10 directors speak about the master filmmaker

From Christopher Nolan to Ridley Scott, Shekhar Kapur to Dibakar Banerjee, is there any director Stanley Kubrick has not left an impression on?

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Stanley Kubrick

New Delhi,UPDATED: Jul 26, 2016 20:21 IST

If Stanley Kubrick was alive, he would have been 88 today (July 26). One cannot find the right words for a befitting tribute to the influential American filmmaker, especially after so much has been written about him.

Of course, one could choose to write volumes by simply analysing his oeuvre because his films are so loaded, so layered and so intellectually challenging. Perhaps, the day aliens visit planet Earth in a black monolith, they will do so only to study Kubrick's films.

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In a career spanning 44 years, Kubrick made only 12 films. The last film he directed, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), was made after a gap of 12 years since he made his penultimate film, Full Metal Jacket (1987). Yet he has made genre-defining films in almost every genre imaginable; be it science-fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey), war (Full Metal Jacket), sword-and-sandal (Spartacus), dystopian film (A Clockwork Orange), horror (The Shining), noir (The Killing) or political black comedy (Dr. Strangelove).

Regarded as one of the greatest directors ever by filmmmakers and critics alike, Kubrick's body of work is regarded as highly influential by filmmakers from various eras. From Martin Scorsese to Michael Mann to Christopher Nolan to David Fincher to our homegrown mavericks, Dibakar Banerjee and Anurag Kashyap, every filmmaker worth his/her grain of salt owes something or the other to Kubrick.

Stanley Kubrick - A Video Tribute from Alexandre Gasulla on Vimeo.

Here's what some of the best contemporary directors of Hollywood and Bollywood have to say about the influence and mastery of the great Stanley Kubrick:

Christopher Nolan