Happy Birthday, Stanley Kubrick! What’s His Finest Cinematic Moment?

...Commemorating the day 83 years ago when the world welcomed one Stanley Kubrick into existence. This would change everything.

You know what I mean. From Kubrick’s early directing work in the 1950s until his death in 1999 at age 70 — and, let’s face it, into this very minute — everyone’s had plenty of time and opportunity to discuss, debate, disseminate and otherwise contemplate their own favorite moments of the genius Kubrick canon. So consider this your chance to raise a virtual glass to his memory, impact, and achievements, my own favorite of which came at the end of his 1957 anti-war masterpiece Paths of Glory. French army colonel Dax (played by Kirk Douglas), having struggled to defend three of his men through a kangaroo court-martial for cowardice, rejects a promotion from the high-ranking functionary who signed the trio’s death warrants.

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