by thenewgreen

Stanley Kubrick would have celebrated his 84th birthday today. Besides being one of the finest filmmakers of all time and mastermind of the greatest movie never made, he was also a keen observer of culture with ceaseless curiosity about the human condition, dancing between the hopeless and the heartening. From Stanley Kubrick: Interviews (public library) comes this layered meditation on purpose, mortality, and, as Carl Jung once put it, the art of “kindl[ing] a light in the darkness of mere being,” from a 1968 Playboy interview by Eric Nordern: