Clockwork Orange,
Full Metal Jacket and
Eyes Wide Shut Kubrick wrote film history. But his first, as he said himself, serious film was
The Killing of 1956.
Kubrick, born in New York on 26 July 1928, was also a passionate chess player, and as a young man he was a frequent guest at the Academy of Chess and Checkers , the so-called Flea House . Here, visitors from all walks of life, including celebrities such as Marcel Duchamp or Harold Schonberg, New York times music critic and author of the book
Grandmasters of Chess, met to play Scrabble, Bridge, Backgammon, but above all Chess, until the early hours of the morning. Sometimes for little, often for a lot of money. In a back room, the owner occasionally organised a poker game - a violation of the gambling laws of the time.