So perhaps you saw our tease in the newspaper Review section, and you rather fancy one of the two copies of the handsome Stanley Kubrick Diaries which our friends at publisher Taschen have donated. Or, maybe not - perhaps you've wandered here, unaware of Sean O'Hagan's interview in today's paper with the late director's wife. Either way, one of the copies of the Diaries (retailing at a very round £100 in your local book shop) is yours. Well, almost.
What we want: David Thomson, in his celebrated Biographical Dictionary of Film challenged the director's reputation. 'Kubrick, he reckoned, 'signals his own gravity with years of preparation, endless painstaking in shooting, the courting of serious topics and pandering to the audience's appetite for sensation and vulgarity in the guise of importance.' Tell us why Thomson is wrong - or indeed, why he's right - and the best answers will be rewarded. Though if you figure he's right, what are you doing trying to score one of the Diaries..?
