Reddit has a new Ask Me Anything with Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Katharina and grandson Joe. If you read the blog regularly, you probably know I’m a little obsessed with Kubrick, whom I rate above all other filmmakers, even Wilder, Buñuel and Godard. A few exchanges with Katharina follow.

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Question:

Katharina, I don’t know how old you are, so I’m not sure if this is relevant or not. But what was your father like during filming as opposed in between films? Did he seem more stressed, or did he ever complain about so and so not being able to nail a take? Or was he pretty much always the same at home?

Also, any cool stories of you being on set with him or anything like that?

Katharina:

I’m nearly 59. Between films he did a lot of reading, caught up with viewing the videos of American football games that his sister used to send him. He was always working on improving print qualities, hiring directors to shoot the voice overs for films that had to be dubbed and checking on how his films were doing in other parts of the world. He never stopped tending his babies even once they were out in the world.

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Question:

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Question: 

What are your favorite memories of Stanley? What was he like around the house?

Katharina: