The surprising 1978 movie Stanley Kubrick called the “most interesting” of the decadeSuch is the ongoing mystique of Stanley Kubrick, even the people closest to him have struggled to ascertain beyond reasonable doubt which movies ranked among his favourites. However, he did hold one particular film in such high regard that he couldn’t stop himself from repeatedly singing its praises. While the filmmaker’s daughter and one of his long-time closest confidants couldn’t agree on the sci-fi features he genuinely liked, Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends is an entirely different story. Even though he wouldn’t personally call Girlfriends an underground movie, presumably because he hadn’t “seen any underground films that I thought were important or particularly interesting,” he nonetheless lauded it as “just a low-budget professional film.” It wasn’t underground; it wasn’t Hollywood, but it made a mark on the maestro.