> most people don't like it That sounds like a recommendation! After reading: > Kubrick was perhaps the world's most successful maker of mainstream art films.

> most people don't like it That sounds like a recommendation! After reading: > Kubrick was perhaps the world's most successful maker of mainstream art films. I'd had a vision of Kubrick as the Thomas Kinkade of the 7th art, which luckily was quickly dissipated by: > He found a way—like few before him or since—to make interpretive movies that are commercially successful in popular culture while simultaneously appealing to cult film audiences, intellectuals and academics, cinephiles, critics, artists, and fellow filmmakers.