Last viewing of 2001 gave me the weirdest dreams that night.
Barry Lyndon is also excellent, and IIRC, he never used artificial lighting when filming that work, or at least kept it to the bare bones minimum. I guess he was known to be an innovator of sorts in different ways for his movies. He used high speed cameras with very large apertures to help capture dark scenes in BL.
In
Barry Lyndon, he filmed interior night scenes literally by candlelight. That is why there are so many candles that you can see in the scenes. He also used huge, very expensive lenses to be able to do that, as most would not be able to give an acceptable image with such low light.
Barry Lyndon is beautifully shot.
Kubrick films have a great look to them. All of his films that I have seen are interesting and worth watching. I have seen all of his films since
Killer's Kiss (1955). You can buy all of his films on DVD (some on Blu-Ray) in official releases starting with
Killer's Kiss, but the last I checked, you could only buy a couple of the earlier ones on bootleg or some such kind of source. You can see a list of all his films at:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040/
He really knew how to frame his shots and knew how to get great performances out of actors. He also told interesting stories. My favorite is
Dr. Strangelove, which, while being absolutely hilarious, perfectly captures the real attitudes of many people of the time.
Kubrick is someone who made films that look much better on a big screen than a little one. Though that is especially true of his later films, going to see
Dr. Strangelove at a movie theater was one of the best movie decisions I ever made. It is great on a little TV, but it is even better on a big screen.
