Before his death, the great master Stanley Kubrick revealed his favorite Steven Spielberg films.
Responsible for films such as “The Shining”, “A Clockwork Orange”, “Eyes Wide Shut”, “Born to Kill”, “Dr. Strangelove”, “Spartacus”, “2001: Space Odyssey”, among many others, Stanley Kubrick became an unavoidable name in the history of cinema.
In this sense, all of his films, if not almost all of them, are studied and evaluated by hundreds of cinema courses around the world. Despite his incredible contribution and inspiration in the seventh art, Stanley Kubrick only won one Oscar, in the category of Best Special Effects for “2001: A Space Odyssey”. In total, the director accumulated 13 Oscar nominations. Recently there was another director who equaled Kubrick’s achievement with his only victory. Japanese director Takashi Yamazaki became the first director since Stanley Kubrick to win the Best Visual Effects category.
Before his death, the director left a wide list of his favorite films organized by his daughter Katharina Kubrick-Hobbs. There’s everything, from the Golden Age of Hollywood to Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola and Max Ophuls. But in this long list, Steven Spielberg’s films stand out!
SCHINDLER’S LIST
It’s Stanley Kubrick’s only choice about a Steven Spielberg film that isn’t science fiction. This 1993 film starring Liam Neeson tells the story of a German businessman who used his influence with the Nazi party to open a factory and “hire” Jews to work. With this he ended up saving more than a thousand Jews from the Holocaust, a sign of hope in one of the worst phases of Humanity. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an almost perfect rating – 98%.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD DEGREE
Of all Steven Spielberg’s science fiction films, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” is one of the most acclaimed, as Christopher Nolan said. According to the official synopsis, “a group of people try to contact an alien intelligence. Roy Neary didn’t just see an unidentified flying object: he has a burn mark to prove it. Roy refuses to accept an explanation for what he saw and is willing to give his life to discover the truth about UFOs.” This film has the particularity of having François Traffaut in the cast.
ET – THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL
This masterpiece of science fiction could not be missing from Stanley Kubrick’s list. In addition to the incredible achievement that “ET – The Extra-Terrestrial” achieved in the field of science fiction, Steven Spielberg told us an emotional story that left its mark on popular culture. The film ended up winning 4 Oscars, all in technical categories – Best Soundtrack, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound.
Do you agree with the director? Which ones should have also been on the list?
