‘The Complete Kubrick’ doesn’t just collect all of the filmmaker’s work in one impeccable package. It gives you an incredible peek at the man behind it all

Michael Chaiken wasn’t quite sure what he was getting into. But he still said yes immediately.

The Philadelphia-born, Brooklyn-based curator had been cataloguing the archives of Paul Morrissey, the late underground filmmaker who worked closely with Andy Warhol back in the Sixties and Seventies, when he got a phone call from Kim Hendrickson, a longtime executive producer at the Criterion Collection, at the end of 2024. “She said, ‘Hey, we’re working on a Kubrick project. We’re not sure what the dimensions will be just yet. But would you be interested?'” he recalls. Like a lot of the iconic director’s work, there was a slight air of mystery around the proposal. Nonetheless, Chaiken was intrigued.…