Saw Stanley Kubrick's Boxes a documentary about the many boxes of research materials Stanley Kubrick left upon his death. The filmmaker examines the contents of the boxes and turns the film into a Citizen Kane-style hagiography for Kubrick. I was under the impression this film would detail Kubrick's failed Holocaust documentary but (although it's brought up) it's not the focus. Kubrick's perfectionism is.
The film is short and kind of meandering, concluding at last that Kubrick's perfectionism was the thing that kept others in awe of him, enabling his triumphs but also isolating him in his fortress of photographs and paper. Despite being only 45 minutes long, we take a detour to interview a man who wrote a crank letter to Kubrick about what changes were needed for 2001: A Space Odyssey to be a great film. The documentary is an interesting little look into Kubrick's life. It's a bit overly full of people shaking their heads at his peculiarities but I suppose the peculiarities make the man in this case.
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