From Paths of Glory to Eyes Wide Shut: one meticulous film at a time, each in a different genre. Kubrick's control was total and his subject constant, systems and the humans they grind.
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Both use clinical detachment to expose violence beneath civilized surfaces, cinema as deliberate discomfort.
Inheritors of the slow-burn epic, long takes, operatic ambition, characters consumed by their obsessions.
Both Warner Bros. at peak powers, visual poetry elevated far above narrative convention.
Twin pillars of 70s auteur cinema, one cold, one spiritual, both rejecting commercial filmmaking entirely.