The Complete Kubrick producer explains how hard it was to actually make it "complete"

Why a New Box Set and Podcast Will Change How You Think About Stanley Kubrick

Michael Chaiken wasn’t quite sure what he was getting into. But he still said yes immediately. The Philadelphia-born, Brooklyn-based curator had been cataloguing the archives of Paul Morrissey, the late underground filmmaker who worked closely with Andy Warhol back in the Sixties and Seventies, when he got a phone call from Kim Hendrickson, a longtime executive producer at the Criterion Collection, at the end of 2024. “She said, ‘Hey, we’re wor…

Stanley Kubrick and the Limits of Perfectionism

As Criterion releases The Complete Kubrick, a look back at Stanley Kubrick’s career—from Look photographer to auteur—and why his perfectionism cut both ways.

The Complete Kubrick producer explains how hard it was to actually make it "complete"

In entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling TV shows to organizing music festival lineups. While the public sees the end product on TVs, movie screens, paper, or radio dials, they don’t see what it took to get there. In Expert Witness, The A.V. Club talks to industry insiders about the actual business of entertainment in hopes of shedding some light on how the pop-culture sausage gets made. Putting togethe…

Awards Watch - On the Shelf: ‘The Complete Kubrick,’ ‘The Silence of the Lambs,’ ‘Christiane F.’ Highlight a Massive Week of Releases from the Criterion Collection on Physical Media for the Week of 10/19/26

The middle of October 2026 brings not only one of the biggest release weeks in recent memory from our friends at the Criterion Collection, but it is the week that they give the world the most anticipated box set of the year, The Complete Kubrick. Before diving into the newest collection from Criterion, they have…

“He Wanted the Films to Survive”: Michael Chaiken on Assembling Criterion’s The Complete Kubrick

No single home-video release this year, by any remotely comparable margin, generated greater waves than Criterion’s The Complete Kubrick—celebrations of a filmmaker, debates over pricing, and more drops of the word “canon” than a Civil War battlefield. All of this three months before it was released and anybody outside Criterion’s office saw one material shred […] The post “He Wanted the Films to Survive”: Michael Chaiken on Assembling Criterion…