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.
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That sounds like a recommendation! After reading:
I'd had a vision of Kubrick as the Thomas Kinkade of the 7th art, which luckily was quickly dissipated by:
I could write a thousand words but I’ll just write: Kubrick isn’t a Kinkade.
Yes; different media entirely.
Have you... never seen a Kubrick film? That's seems wild to me, but probably that's becoming more a generational thing than anything else.