Meanings
comparative more Kubrickian · superlative most Kubrickian
- Of or pertaining to Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), influential American film director, writer, producer, and photographer, noted for his technical perfectionism.
- Characterized by meticulous perfectionism, mastery of the technical aspects of film-making, and atmospheric visual style in films across a range of genres.
Even directors with more formal aesthetics—the Kubrickian perfectionist David Fincher and the interpersonal realist Noah Baumbach—did not make rote, familiar-feeling movies.
2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN1 more example
There are some nice gags and sprightly Kubrickian touches, and one genuinely shocking scene when Evelyn fat-shames her daughter – an authentically upsetting moment of family dysfunction that seems to come from another film, one in a parallel universe.
2022 May 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Everything Everywhere All at Once review – nothing nowhere over a long period of time”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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