Filmworker

There's plenty of production detail for Kubrick nuts, though the two competing narratives (Kubrick the genius, Kubrick the tyrant) won't surprise anyone.

If there is a cult around Kubrick, Vitali was the first card carrying member.

That's where the greatest qualms may come in this stylish and sometimes overly reverential portrait: It's as if Vitali never really existed without the director.

As clearly established in "Filmworker," the 2017 documentary about Vitali’s life, the onetime British movie/TV star sunk into obscurity when he gave up acting to become right-hand man to one of the greatest film directors of all time, Stanley Kubrick.