Half a century since the perfectionist director vowed to block it, a critique that dared to discuss flaws in his films is to be publishedStanley 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... Read this story
