Review of Filmworker (2018) by Scott R — 01 Dec 2018

Auteur theory is bunk, and one needs look no further than the oeuvre of cinema's greatest auteur to see the cadre of collaboratorsï¿ 1/2"from Leon Vitali to Jan Harlanï¿ 1/2"behind every picture.

Of course, the commonplace vision of Kubrick as an obsessive, cold, calculating perfectionist, and the fact that he rarely recast the same actorsï¿ 1/2"Vitali being the odd exceptionï¿ 1/2"and made films so infrequently as to hardly be able to rehire the same crew, obscures the influence of his collaborators; but as this slight documentary evidences, there is always more than one person behind a camera, and film can only ever be a collaborative medium, the work of which extends long past the wrap party and into even color correcting reprints.