CONTENTS

Introduction

1. I Know I Can Make a Film Better Than That:
Killer’s Kiss, The Killing

2. Keep Doing It Until It Is Right:
Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita

3. Total Final Annihilating Artistic Control:
Dr. Strangelove

4. The Tower of Babel Was the Start of the Space Age:
2001: A Space Odyssey

5. Let’s Open with a Sicilian Defence:
A Clockwork Orange

6. You Can Talk for Hours about a Thing with Stanley:
Barry Lyndon

7. Something Inherently Wrong with the Human Personality:
The Shining

8. Make Sure It’s Big—Lon Chaney Big:
Full Metal Jacket

9. Frightened of Making the Movie:
Eyes Wide Shut

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index