The late, great Stanley Kubrick was long noted not only as one of the great American directors, but also as one of the great enigmatic recluses of cinema.
It?s perhaps at least in part down to this that a number of bizarre conspiracy theories exist involving Kubrick - perhaps the most enduring being that the 1969 moon landing never actually happened, and the ?2001: A Space Odyssey? director was hired by the US government to film bogus footage of the event.
Unsurprisingly, this claim has long since been dismissed by both NASA and those associated with Kubrick - but this hasn?t stopped the idea from remaining popular.
Now, a pseudo-documentary has emerged purporting to feature a videotaped confession from Kubrick, shortly before his death in 1999, admitting that he did indeed fake the moon landings.
And, even less surprisingly, those in the know have dismissed this as 100% untrue as well.
Gawker found the film, entitled ?Shooting Stanley Kubrick? - which they describe as ?an absolute marvel of grating, unwatchable cinema? - from a filmmaker named T Patrick Murray. (Watch it on Vimeo if you?re so in~~~~~d.)
It features a man claimed to be Kubrick telling his interviewer, ?I perpetrated a huge fraud on the American public, which I am now about to detail, involving the United States government and NASA, that the moon landings were faked, that the moon landings ALL were faked , and that I was the person who filmed it.
?I?m serious. Dead serious. Yes, it was fake.?
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