‘Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures’ Frames Portrait of a Genius

Being a genius brings with it a certain reputation, deserved or otherwise. The opening montage of Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures plays right to that reputation by highlighting words from newspaper stories such as “meticulous,” “megalomania,” “recluse,” “eccentric,” and “perfectionist.” But one word among those is most fitting: “legend.” Director and producer Jan Harlan…