European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine behind the screen with Stanley Kubrick by Francis  new York times he reassuring thing about Stanley Kubrick is thai Atler being deep As Yahweh in he creation of one movie for the last live years he emerges Gerelle and curious on the seventh Day asking about Beer commercials and envying silent film makers and recalling lha pleasures of Manhattan s old Thalia movie theater " lava you seen those Michelob commercials he asks As if they were Samizdat speaking of the 30 second spots Hal came uninvited with the giant football game videos thai his sister sent the eminent director at last Winter from new Jersey. Then a had no time to spare for watching anything beyond his own Woik in Progress and a weekly tin of football. They re just boy girl night Lun leading up to pouring the Beer at in 30 seconds beautifully edited and photographed. Economy of statement is not something thai films Are noted  sunday morning at Pinewood studios in London seems sepulchral in the empty executive offices As quiet As Hal s deep space murder scene in 300an awful setting to encounter one of a kind. Bui Kubrick arrives rumpled and Lone As the night watchman offers a simple hello accepts the fact that he cannot direct the phone 1o work properly and settles Down to discuss movies and imagination and Hia own new work it starts with being excited by a Story and finally in s telling the Story on the screen he says speaking of the process at due Ding it goes from the Mast wonderful literary Atmos Hoie to desperation. It can Boas crude As standing up and writing on the Backol an envelope when someone s just said something and it s a o clock with the Winter Sun fading you be got to shoot it and you re trying to exploit something that s just come up it s like a quarterback calling an automatic play when he sees the defense he s up against " his new move. Full Meta Jackel a Story hinged on the trauma of the Tel offensive in the Vietnam Wai has just opened in the United slates Buckton. An old 1930s Gasworks town abandoned on the thames has Boon destroyed by Kubrick s technical artists All fiery and pocked As Hue the vietnamese City of the movie 5 Clima i Elgh Ubati Dorian Harewood under fire during the Battle Lorhea atty in Stanley Kumock s new movie full Metal jacket the Story la hinged on the trauma of the Tot offensive in the Vietnam War. The movie is Only hours old in Kubrick s finished perfectionist version. And far from talking 1980s Box office or 1960s Jabberwocky about his personal agony through the Nalion s Vietnam experience Kubrick is describing being True to Iho initial emotion Hal struck him when he first Lound this Story. That was five years ago amid what is the hardest part of directing he says searching for a Good tale thai sustains the imagination. Staring carefully As a question is asked Kubrick Speaks with his right hand rubbing his brow often glancing Down like a Man reciting Iha confine or or handicapping the next race. That first impression is the most precious thing you be got you can never have it again the yardstick for any judgment that you have As you get deeper and deeper into the work because making a movie is a process of going into smaller and smaller detail and finally winding up in the minutiae of How does a footstep sound on the sound Iraq when you re remixing the  no. A had no craving to make a signature movie about Hal War he says. He was Reading the Virginia Kirkus review As he usually does looking for stirring fiction about something anything thai might Promise a stunning translation to film and he came upon a novel the Short timers he read a copy. I reread it almost immediately and i thought this is very exciting i belter think about  some  of ihc1  Ruht  kit Fick sj-,5  .-il.inl.1s/ Inal v.-i.-m1, Lul us   Iviria i  i it of Iii re  no Oric na1. L1 " do  j Mont could Trail to the stars and stripes Png 13