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What's interesting about Filmworker (2017), a film about Leon Vitali, Stanley Kubrick's assistant, and 'Stanley Kubrick and Me', a book by Emilio D'Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick's assistant, is that neither Leon nor Emilio reference the other.
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These two men, by their own accounts, performed very similar jobs for Kubrick (basically anything Kubrick asked them to do in his pursuit of obsessive perfection). And yet Vitali doesn't mention D'Alessandro and D'Alessandro only mentions Vitali in passing as an actor.
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I wonder if this says something about how Kubrick compartmentalised his life and work to such an extent that he could have two people doing such similar work and yet never interacting: having overlapping roles but keeping Vitali on the cinema side and D'Alessandro on the personal
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I'm now watching Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) which has reminded me of another Kubrick assistant, Anthony Frewin, who I vaguely remember from Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008). Frewin not mentioned by either Vitali or D'Alessandro.
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