The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick

Foreword by Filippo Ulivieri.

In 1969, Stanley Kubrick suppressed a book about his films because it dared to touch on their flaws. Kubrick, fresh from the Oscar-winning success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, promised to fight “tooth and nail” to prevent The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick going into print. More than five decades later, and a quarter-century after Kubrick’s death, Neil Hornick’s book is finally published.

Here for an article about the book from The Guardian.

Neil Hornick (1939—2025) studied Psychology at University College London and, after a period travelling abroad, earned a post-grad Certificate in Drama with Distinction at Bristol University in 1965—6. He was artistic director of The Phantom Captain performance company for nearly forty years, and from the mid-1980s also ran a literary consultancy. His complete professional and personal archives were acquired by the British Library in 2022.

^{The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (2024)
Paperback ISBN 978-1-942782-51-3 280pp 5×8 inches
Hardback ISBN 978-1-942782-52-0 280pp 5×8 inches}