num_pages: 384
description: This intimate portrait by his former personal assistant and confidante reveals the man behind the legendary filmmakerfor the first time.Stanley Kubrick the director of a string of timeless movies from Lolita and Dr. Strangelove to A Clockwork Orange 2001: A Space Odyssey Full Metal Jacket and others has always been depicted by the media as the Howard Hughes of filmmakers a weird artist obsessed with his work and privacy to the point of madness. But who was he really? Emilio D'Alessandro lets us see. A former Formula Ford driver who was a minicab chauffeur in London during the Swinging Sixties he took a job driving a giant phallus through the city that became his introduction to the director. Honest reliable and ready to take on any task Emilio found his way into Kubrick's neurotic obsessive heart. He became his personal assistant his right-hand man and confidant working for him from A Clockwork Orange until Kubrick's death in 1999.Emilio was the silent guy in the room when the script for The Shining was discussed. He still has the coat Jack Nicholson used in the movie. He was an extra on the set of Eyes Wide Shut  Kubrick's last movie. He knew all the actors and producers Kubrick worked with; he observed firsthand Kubrick's working methods down to the smallest detail. Making no claim of expertise in cinematography but with plenty of anecdotes he offers a completely fresh perspective on the artist and a warm affecting portrait of a generous kind caring man who was a perfectionist in work and life.
language: English
title: Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at His Side
publisher: Arcade