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Which filmmakers influenced Stanley Kubrick when he attended screenings at the Museum of Modern Art?
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Stanley Kubrick during the filming of Barry Lyndon (1975).
When Stanley Kubrick was a young man, he became a regular attendee of retrospective film screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. During this formative period, he was especially influenced by the work of filmmakers Orson Welles and Sergey Eisenstein.1