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}