Stanley Kubrick is one of the greatest directors of all time. He worked hard and obsessed over every detail in every frame.

The words “meticulous” and “perfectionism” tend to come stapled to Stanley Kubrick’s résumé. But what does that mean in practice? Most directors labor in preproduction to make sure their vision comes ...

Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” (1975) is a meditation — an elegy told in slow, flickering motion, drifting across the screen like smoke from a musket fired long ago. For a director known for cold ...