My 400 Days With Kubrick

6:00 AM PDT 10/23/2012 by Merle Ginsberg

Nicole Kidman writes for THR about her work with him on his final movie, filming with Tom Cruise and how she felt the day the iconic director died, as LACMA unveils its retrospective Nov. 1.

I saw my first Stanley Kubrick movie in Sydney when I was 13 or 14: A Clockwork Orange. (I used to "wag school," or play hooky.) It kind of went over my head, but I was deeply disturbed. I saw The Shining when it came out, and I was making out in the back row. I told that to Stanley -- he really loved that! I saw Lolita when Gus Van Sant wanted me to watch it as prep for To Die For. And I delved into 2001: A Space Odyssey with Tom [Cruise, Kidman's husband at that time], who was a Kubrick cinemaphile. He talked me through it, and I was flabbergasted by Kubrick's greatness.