There are arguments - convincing ones at that - that Stanley Kubrick is the greatest filmmaker who ever lived. It's arguable that he never made a bad film, in a career which saw him helm possibly the best science fiction film ever made (2001: A Space Odyssey), the best horror film ever made (The Shining), the best war film ever made (Paths Of Glory), the best... well, you see where this is going. Kubrick's almost mythical greatness is what makes it so difficult to wrap your head around the idea that one of his favourite films was Ron Shelton's comedy-drama White Men Can't Jump. Not one to often go public with his personal film tastes, Kubrick officially made his last and only favourite films list in 1963; his daughter, Katharina Kubrick-Hobbs, however, listed in 1999 the films she knew her father admired. Among the more obvious likes of Citizen Kane, Metropolis and The Godfather, there was nestled White Men Can't Jump, a film in which the white Woody Harrelson hustles black people who underestimate his basketball skills. Seeing as Kubrick was a genius, the world's probably just going to have to re-evaluate it as a masterpiece.
Lover of film, writer of words, pretentious beyond belief. Thinks Scorsese and Kubrick are the kings of cinema, but PT Anderson and David Fincher are the dashing young princes. Follow Brogan on twitter if you can take shameless self-promotion: @BroganMorris1
